News Analysis | Education & Youth The Frantic Push to Reopen Schools Ignores Educational Inequality Before COVID Rhetoric about children “falling behind” shows a desire to maintain a broken status quo, not a desire for true equity. By Kate Way , Truthout March 8, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Reckless Governors Are Lobbing a Hand Grenade Into Biden’s COVID Plan We must push back against our state leaders as they abandon life-saving protections against COVID-19. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout March 4, 2021 Truthout
News Analysis | Human Rights We Could End Homelessness Right Now, If Only Capitalism Didn’t Get in the Way At the heart of today’s housing crisis is a capitalist economy built on shadowy finances and esoteric debt. By Matthew Byrne , Truthout February 23, 2021 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Profiting From Desperation: Oxygen Tanks Become an Underground Market in Mexico The demand for oxygen in Mexico has grown by 700 percent over the past month, and desperate people are being exploited. By Tamara Pearson , Truthout February 15, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Military Metaphors in Health Care Are Harmful — Especially During the Pandemic We must reimagine health and healing in a way that doesn’t label our oppressors "humanitarians." By Hiba Ansar , Truthout February 6, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections We Did Not “Lose” Loved Ones and Normal Life to COVID. They Were Stolen. Shipments of vaccine are spoiling because Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” distribution process was smoke and mirrors. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout February 1, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing New Surge of COVID Is Spreading “Like Wildfire” in Illinois Prisons Despite the introduction of mass testing, people in Illinois prisons and jails are still contracting COVID-19. By Brian Dolinar , Truthout January 30, 2021 Truthout
News | Human Rights As an Eviction Crisis Looms, Tenant Organizing Explodes Across the Country Tenants are organizing to hold widescale coordinated direct actions like rent strikes to avert the looming crisis. By Laura Jedeed & Shane Burley , Truthout January 25, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Fixating on Pandemic “Learning Loss” Undermines the Need to Transform Education Systemic change requires that students, families and teachers collectively serve as designers of education. By Maxine McKinney de Royston & Shirin Vossoughi , Truthout January 18, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Palestine Refugees Are Forced to the Back of the COVID Vaccine Line Conditions in Palestine are an argument for prioritizing refugees for the COVID vaccine, not leaving them behind. By Medhini Kumar , Truthout January 18, 2021 Truthout