News | Environment & Health Progressives Say Abbott’s “Near Monopoly” Laid Groundwork for Baby Food Shortage In a letter, the lawmakers asked Biden to take every action available to him to ease the shortage. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 18, 2022 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Officials Raise Concern Over Biden’s Plan to Limit Student Loan Cancellation Officials say the Education Department doesn’t have the data to implement a debt cancellation plan with an income cap. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 16, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Georgia Voters Continue Push to Disqualify Marjorie Taylor Greene From Office The new complaint also notes that Greene's original defense relied “almost entirely on her claimed lack of memory.” By Chris Walker , Truthout May 16, 2022 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Manchin and Sinema “Sabotaged” Their Own Party’s Agenda, Sanders Says The two senators spent months watering down Democrats’ social spending bill just to kill it in the end. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 16, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Capitalism Is to Blame for How Quickly US COVID Deaths Reached 1 Million The idea of obeying science when it might cost multibillion-dollar corporations their market share was heresy. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout May 16, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Let’s End the Shame of Student Debt While Calling for Its Cancellation To reduce income inequality, we need to reject “debt shaming” and insist on cancellation of student debt. By India Walton , ProgressiveHub May 14, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections How Did Biden Not Notice the Far Right Lurch of the Republican Party Until Now? “I never expected the ultra-MAGA Republicans who seemed to control the Republican Party now,” Biden said on Monday. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout May 13, 2022 Truthout
News | Immigration “Pro-Life” Republicans Complain Biden Isn’t Starving Babies at the Border An unverified photo supposedly showing a single shelf of baby formula at the border set off a deluge of GOP complaints. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 13, 2022 Truthout
News | Reproductive Rights Manchin Joins Republican Senators to Block Abortion Rights Bill “The public will not forget” who opposed the legislation, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. By Chris Walker , Truthout May 12, 2022 Truthout
News | Reproductive Rights Sanders Says Democrats Must End Filibuster to Protect Abortion Access If the GOP can end the filibuster for anti-Democratic reasons, Democrats can do so to protect abortion access, he said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 10, 2022 Truthout