News | Environment & Health US Sees Steepest Single-Year Decline in Life Expectancy Since World War II Black and Latinx people have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and the resulting fall in life expectancy. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams July 21, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health FL Newspaper Tells DeSantis to Stop “Auditioning” for Fox News as COVID Spikes Florida's rate of new COVID cases being reported daily has increased by more than 450 percent in the past four weeks. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 20, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Marjorie Taylor Greene Suspended From Twitter for Posting False COVID Claims Greene has "multiple" strikes against her this year that could result in a permanent ban from the site in the future. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 20, 2021 Truthout
News Analysis | Human Rights If Biden Wants to “Stand With the Cuban People,” He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has maintained the blockade against Cuba. Will Joe Biden change that? By Marjorie Cohn , Truthout July 19, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health The Delta Variant Is Feasting on the Unvaxxed — and It’s Getting Worse Donald Trump says vaccine refusal is due to people's distrust of the 2020 election results. Whose fault is that? By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout July 19, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections My Heart Aches for Cuba — and I Yearn for More Solidarity From the Global Left Leftists must make a real effort to gain an understanding of the realities on the ground in Cuba. By Odette Casamayor-Cisneros , Truthout July 18, 2021 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Postal Worker Hospitalized for Six Weeks After Pleading for COVID Protections The limited response to postal workers’ repeated appeals provides a window into the failures of two federal agencies. By Maryam Jameel , ProPublica July 16, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Biden-Merkel Meeting Fails to Move Forward Vaccine Patent Waiver Biden's support for the waiver garnered applause, but he's since failed to convince other world powers to follow suit. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams July 16, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Pandemic Fuels Global Hunger as More Than 2.5 Billion Lack Nutritious Food A new report found about one-tenth of the global population were undernourished last year. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! July 15, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Trump Supporters’ Anti-Science Crusade Is Threatening Us All COVID is rising enough to spur the largest nurses’ union in the U.S. to urge the reinstatement of the mask mandate. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout July 15, 2021 Truthout