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![Rideshare driver Jorge Vargas raises his "No on 22" sign in support as app-based gig workers hold a driving demonstration with 60-70 vehicles blocking Spring Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall on October 8, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2020_1230-prop-22-400x300.jpg)
2020’s Legislative Attacks on Gig Workers Will Change Labor Forever
The passage of Proposition 22 in California may serve as a catalyst for a new kind of labor organizing across the U.S.
![A woman stands in a beam of sunlight streaming into the Lincoln Memorial as the sun rises on December 27, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2020_1230-lincoln-memorial-400x300.jpg)
In 2020, COVID Put a Mirror Up to Our Society
It will take concerted action to pull us out of 2020’s stew of death, fear, pain, deliberate cruelty and loss.
![Election personnel sort ballots in preparation for an audit at the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections offices on November 7, 2020, in Lawrenceville, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_1230-georgia-ballots-400x300.jpg)
Audit of Absentee Ballots in Georgia Debunks Trump’s Errant Claims of Fraud
In spite of the audit's findings, Trump continued to peddle baseless conspiracy theories on social media afterward.
![Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar before receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health on December 22, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2020_1229-fauci-400x300.jpg)
Fauci Describes Vaccine Rollout as “Below Where We Want to Be” Right Now
Operation Warp Speed sought to vaccinate 20 million before December 31. So far, just 2.1 million have been vaccinated.
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US Must Commit to Arms Reduction If It Wants North Korea to Do So
Pyongyang will never agree to a unilateral disarmament, regardless of how diplomatically the U.S. frames the demand.
![Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, on December 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1230092714-400x300.jpg)
Trump Administration Pushes Rules Facilitating Religious Discrimination at Work
The Biden administration might not be able to roll back some of these rules for at least a couple years.
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Biden’s Education Secretary Pick Must Overturn DeVos’s Attack on Public Schools
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Miguel Cardona, tapping a third Latinx person to join his cabinet.
![Mitch Mcconnell and other associated republican senators stand for a photo op](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2020_1223-republicans-400x300.jpg)
Some Republican Senators Are Clinging to Election Denial, Fearful of Losing Base
Some lower-ranking GOP senators are opportunistically backing Trump’s attempt to derail the peaceful transfer of power.
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Biden’s Climate Cabinet Picks Show Power of People-Led Movements
Biden’s picks for the climate cabinet are the result of “a transformational set of movements,” says Mustafa Ali.
![People gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/2020_1218-supreme-court-census-400x300.jpg)
SCOTUS Lets Trump Census Plan Excluding Undocumented Immigrants to Move Forward
The ruling, issued by the Court's conservative bloc members, punts the question of apportionment down the road.