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Dec 8, 2025 - Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions.

Mar 8, 2024 - Derek Seidman is a writer, researcher and historian living in Buffalo, New York. He is a regular contributor for Truthout and a contributing writer for…

Dec 24, 2025 - After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

Jan 2, 2026 - Zohran Mamdani’s supporters at his inauguration share their hopes for the new administration.

Dec 9, 2025 - Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

Jan 2, 2026 - One OB-GYN has already noted “more pre-term births, more hypertension complications, and more postpartum depression.”…

Dec 23, 2024 - The indictment comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block "critical infrastructure."

Oct 7, 2024 - Lara Witt is an award-winning editor and journalist, the editor-in-chief of Prism, and co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance (MMA) and...

Dec 14, 2025 - “I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.

Sep 19, 2025 - Zackary Sholem Berger is a primary care doctor and bioethicist in Baltimore, and is also a poet and translator: https://linktr.ee/zackarysholemberger.

Jan 3, 2026 - Even Trump’s base is starting to recognize the harm done by his economic policies and the historic government shutdown.

Dec 19, 2025 - An executive order declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction could remove supports that keep people alive.

Jul 14, 2024 - Fossil fuel corporations are teaming up with far right activists to hide their climate deception and block lawsuits.

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Apr 26, 2024 - Seraj Assi is a Palestinian writer living in Washington, D.C. and the author, most recently, of My Life as an Alien (Tartarus Press).

Oct 22, 2024 - A new poll offers an alarming wake-up call about how normalized violence has become in this era of gangster capitalism.

Dec 29, 2025 - Even though flu season is now entering its peak phase, experts say it’s not too late to get vaccinated.

Sep 30, 2024 - The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

Sep 15, 2025 - I gifted a bottle of olive oil to a doctor who visited Gaza on a medical mission. Israeli officers confiscated it.

Apr 27, 2021 - Juan González co-hosts Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. González has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years and a staff...

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Jun 7, 2025 - “This is a sad day for our democracy and a scary day for millions of people,” said the coalition behind the challenge.

Nov 24, 2025 - Backing AIPAC may now be a political liability for candidates facing progressive challengers in Democratic primaries.

Aug 21, 2025 - “When people are fighting displacement, they’re fighting for their class interests,” says Andrew Lee.

Aug 13, 2025 - A federal appeals court tossed out a lower court’s order temporarily barring DOGE’s access to people’s information.

May 10, 2024 - George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery fellow at Dartmouth College. He is also the University...

Jun 4, 2025 - Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.

Aug 11, 2025 - As ICE expands its presence across the Midwest, activists fight the reopening of private prisons to jail migrants.

Jun 10, 2024 - Fighting to destroy the legacy of colonialism, youth are on the front lines in the battle for a livable future.

Dec 6, 2024 - Donald Trump has given every indication that Israel’s atrocities will continue unchecked in his second term.

Nov 6, 2025 - “Sometimes we rescue each other with words,” says organizer Kelly Hayes, discussing her powerful new anthology.

Dec 26, 2025 - “This circumstance presents noncitizens … with a choice between two irreparable harms,” wrote the judge.

Dec 10, 2025 - As Trump calls affordability a “con job,” state and local governments are taking the lead on raising wages.

Dec 17, 2020 - On the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, let’s commit to building a world free of policing.

Dec 20, 2025 - Dershowitz also shared with Trump a draft of his new book, Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?

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Oct 5, 2025 - Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.

Dec 2, 2025 - The picket came soon after Starbucks reached a $38 million settlement with New York City over labor violations.

Dec 17, 2025 - One bill proposes a national felony ban on trans youth health care, another aims to bar Medicaid from covering care.

May 23, 2024 - Lawmakers have been calling for a Justice Department probe into Big Oil for nearly a decade.

Nov 23, 2025 - A UN Special Rapporteur has decried the resolution as a violation of Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.

Dec 29, 2025 - Large gifts followed by positive outcomes for donors suggest “massive levels of transactionalism,” one group said.

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Dec 24, 2025 - Records filed in court cases show that most complaints filed by families have been dismissed without investigation.

Oct 8, 2025 - A vibrant, grassroots, bottom-up movement was behind the victory, offering a template that other states can follow.

Jun 28, 2025 - Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

Dec 30, 2025 - The pair also discussed phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which Israel has violated with near-daily attacks.

May 16, 2024 - Palestine’s Nakba has gone on for 76 years, but even in my nightmares, I never imagined the carnage currently unfolding.

Sep 23, 2025 - A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.

Jun 27, 2025 - He showed a generation of journalists, scholars, and public intellectuals what it means to speak truth to power.

Sep 12, 2024 - Over the last five years, over 80 multimillion-dollar Cop City-like facilities have quietly rolled out across the US.

Aug 14, 2023 - The Biden administration is backing CoreCivic in a lawsuit against a state law banning contracts with private prisons.

May 20, 2025 - Jesse Hagopian is a Seattle educator, the director of the Zinn Education Project’s Teaching for Black Lives Campaign, an editor for Rethinking...

Feb 10, 2025 - Unlawful deportation or transfer of a population constitutes both a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Sep 29, 2025 - The cost of a drug used to treat a rare liver disorder rose by more than 1,500 percent, according to Sanders’s office.

Nov 19, 2023 - The Fifth National Climate Assessment breaks new ground by addressing gender disparities, emphasizing women’s health risks.

Oct 8, 2025 - Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

Dec 10, 2025 - The poll found that 8 in 10 Americans view the wealth gap as a problem that is either “very big” or “somewhat big.”…

Jan 2, 2026 - The state may still re-file RICO charges with permission from the governor, and it could appeal the judge’s ruling.

Dec 31, 2025 - An expert discusses how premiums will work, how to seek help, what to watch for in alternative plans, and more.

Nov 25, 2025 - The Trump administration hasn’t provided any details on how the project will be paid for.

Dec 5, 2023 - Victoria Bouloubasis is an award-winning journalist, food writer and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Since 2008, her work aims to dispel myths...

Dec 29, 2025 - In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.

Nov 28, 2025 - Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.

Nov 6, 2025 - The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information.

Apr 12, 2024 - The censorship of pro-Palestine speech on campuses is escalating. We must all work to resist this.

Nov 27, 2025 - The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.

Dec 31, 2025 - Climate change made 2025 heat waves 10 times more likely, a new report finds.

Dec 20, 2025 - The state’s response includes sweeping new powers, intensified surveillance, and a crackdown on organizing.

Dec 18, 2025 - This follows two failed Senate attempts to stop Trump from continuing military action without congressional approval.

Nov 21, 2025 - Rashida Tlaib said the vote shows lawmakers “feel threatened” by those “willing to take on the billionaire class.”…

Jun 16, 2025 - The intense heat is compounded as swarms of flies and mosquitoes infest the tents due to an absence of sewage services.

Dec 19, 2025 - The federal government is appealing a case from Trump’s first term to reinstate an asylum ban at the southern border.

Aug 2, 2024 - Lewis Raven Wallace (he/they/ze) is an independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina, and the author and creator of The View from Somewhere book...

Nov 7, 2025 - Leaders at the AI company are scrambling to pacify concerns that the bubble around their company could soon burst.

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Oct 5, 2024 - Bipartisan rounds of strategic obfuscation follow each new COVID wave.

Aug 3, 2023 - The acquisitive impulses of hundreds of millions could become the stuff of their imprisonment or death.

Jan 2, 2026 - In the new year, Palestinians face new forms of colonization and new challenges to our rights and survival.

Dec 5, 2023 - Tina Vásquez is a journalist with more than a decade of experience reporting on immigration, reproductive injustice, gender, food, labor, and culture.

Apr 7, 2025 - To fight fascism, university faculty, staff and students must show our power.

Aug 5, 2025 - Brian Dolinar is an independent journalist based in Urbana, Illinois. His articles have appeared at The Appeal, In These Times, The Nation, and Truthout.

Jul 11, 2025 - Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.

Feb 6, 2025 - The strategy was used to “compensate” for a lack of intelligence on a target, an investigation has found.

Dec 7, 2025 - The “emergency billionaires tax” would offset the billions of dollars being stripped from CA Medicaid recipients.

Jan 15, 2025 - Shahad Ali is an English literature student and writer from Gaza.

Dec 30, 2024 - Encouraging participation in democratic processes will do more for public safety than disenfranchising people ever will.

Jan 22, 2024 - Israeli settlers create non-native pine forests on occupied land at the expense of Palestinian lives and olive groves.

Dec 26, 2025 - Facing the impacts of mergers and displacement by AI, media unions are fighting for democracy and freedom of expression.

Jan 2, 2026 - John Loeppky is a disabled freelance journalist who lives and works on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has written for outlets of...

Dec 20, 2025 - FCI Dublin was shut down in 2024 after revelations of abuse against prisoners. Residents want it to stay closed.

Aug 14, 2025 - An Indian national’s targeting of Mamdani in New York’s mayoral race marks a new phase for the US Hindutva movement.

Dec 5, 2023 - Born in New Orleans, raised in Houston, & now living in Manhattan, Irene Vázquez is a queer Black Mexican American poet, translator, and journalist.

Dec 31, 2024 - The legal profession must fight to protect us — the lawyers, law students and legal workers fighting for a better world.

Dec 25, 2025 - The change has brought hope to some who fear dying in prison, while others worry it won't save them from such a fate.

Dec 24, 2025 - “They want to build a network of concentration camps,” said one critic.

May 14, 2019 - Hunger strikers in a Texas immigration jail are risking their lives to draw attention to the conditions.

Aug 1, 2025 - Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.

Nov 14, 2022 - Don’t be fooled — state governments didn’t need a national “red wave” to escalate the attack on trans rights.