News | Immigration Immigrant Advocates Are Worried About Threats to Due Process in New Biden Policy The Biden administration has announced a "dedicated docket" process that advocates warn could harm asylum seekers. By Jessica Corbett , CommonDreams May 29, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Immigration Reunification Stories Gloss Over Continuing Family Separation and Deportation The rhetoric about asylum seekers may have changed under Biden, but the policies leading to separations, not so much. By Wendy Kozol & Rachel Ida Buff , Truthout May 26, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights The Difference Between Biden and Trump on Israel-Palestine Policy Is Rhetorical Rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making it impossible for Biden to maintain the same pro-Israel platitudes. By Phyllis Bennis , ForeignPolicyinFocus May 22, 2021 Truthout
News | Immigration Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at Border Trump officials cited conspiracies about antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers. By Dara Lind , ProPublica May 14, 2021 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Senate Votes to Repeal Trump Rule Helping Predatory Lenders Trap People in Debt Flimsy payday lender regulations have cost consumers over $11 billion in fees since 2019. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams May 12, 2021 Truthout
News | Immigration Border Wall Construction May Continue as Biden Is Pushed to Permanently Scrap It The White House has not yet asked Congress to revoke the project's funding as of this week. By Kenny Stancil , CommonDreams April 8, 2021 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Intelligence Report on “Extremism” Equates Anarchists With Right-Wing Militias Biden requested a threat assessment on “extremism.” The resulting report obscures profound asymmetries in violence. By Kristian Williams , Truthout April 7, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Biden Urged to Withdraw All Trump-Era Medicaid Work Requirements The Trump administration approved policies making Medicaid coverage subject to stringent work requirements. By Kenny Stancil , CommonDreams April 6, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Biden Could Chart a New Path for US on Palestinian Rights. Will He? We need more than a rollback of Trump policies, or else the apartheid system that oppresses Palestinians will remain. By Joyce Ajlouny , Truthout April 4, 2021 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections House Committee Finds Sketchy COVID-Related Contracts Were Awarded Under Trump Politically connected or otherwise untested companies were given hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts. By J. David McSwane , ProPublica April 3, 2021 Truthout