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Schuyler Mitchell

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The Supreme Court Delayed a Ruling That Could Shape Voting Rights Across the US

The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked Choice Voting

Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked Choice Voting

The New York City primary proved that ranked choice voting can help build coalitions among parts of the left.

27.06.2025 2

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Trump’s Iran Strikes Reveal We’re in a New Era of Manufacturing Consent

Trump’s Iran Strikes Reveal We’re in a New Era of Manufacturing Consent

Trump’s direct-to-consumer style helps fuel his image as a man with unparalleled control over levers of global power.

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The Antiwar Trump Was Always a Myth

The bipartisan consensus demanding war with Iran has left Americans opposed to war with little political representation.

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Years of LAPD Impunity Paved Way for Trump’s Repression of Protests Today

Years of LAPD Impunity Paved Way for Trump’s Repression of Protests Today

Just five years ago, it was Gavin Newsom who unleashed the National Guard on protesters. Now Trump has followed suit.

14.06.2025 5

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200 Protesters Flood Maersk’s Manhattan HQ to Demand End to Military Shipments

200 Protesters Flood Maersk’s Manhattan HQ to Demand End to Military Shipments

The protest targeted a transnational company that plays a critical role in supplying F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.

12.06.2025 20

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Enraged at Judicial Setbacks From His Own Nominees, Trump Is Pushing Extremists

Trump is trying to pack the courts with inexperienced MAGA loyalists to facilitate his authoritarian agenda.

10.06.2025 2

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As We Defend Medicaid, We Can’t Lose Sight of the End Goal: Free, Universal Care

While the GOP slashes health care funding at the federal level, some state governors are following suit.

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GOP Push to Ban State AI Laws Will Only Help Big Tech

The Republican budget bill blocking state regulations also allocates hundreds of millions in federal funds toward AI.

31.05.2025 4

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As Hurricane Season Looms, FEMA Is Being Torn to Shreds

Trump is dangerously underfunding FEMA, leaving states that rely on it unprepared in the face of upcoming severe storms.

27.05.2025 5

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Project Esther Is a McCarthy-Era Blueprint for Crushing the American Left

While the Heritage Foundation document focuses on the Palestine solidarity movement, its ultimate target is far broader.

23.05.2025 20

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Free Trade Has Hurt Global Labor Conditions. Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Help Them.

Corporations are likely to respond to the tariffs by further exploiting overseas workers to keep the profits flowing.

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Trump Is Bending the Refugee Program to Fit His White Nationalist Agenda

Trump is using the baseless claim of “white genocide” promoted by the likes of Elon Musk to grant asylum to Afrikaners.

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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is the Same Old Cruel Policy of Family Separation

Families with mixed immigration status are being torn apart as Trump advances his mass deportation agenda.

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NYU Law About-Face: Students Can Take Exams Without Swearing Off Protests

NYU Law reversed course on its demand that students renounce protests to take finals — but they are still banned from most school buildings. The...

06.05.2025 5

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NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests or Be Barred from Sitting Final Exams

After being banned from campus buildings following peaceful sit-ins, students said the disciplinary processes broke from school policies. The post NYU...

03.05.2025 2

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How Trump’s 100 Days Built Off the Far Right Blueprint of Project 2025

Project 2025 offered a chilling vision of executive power. The agenda Trump is implementing is even more disturbing.

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The “Parental Rights” Movement Takes Its Anti-LGBTQ Agenda to SCOTUS

The right-wing movement wants the Supreme Court’s help to alienate students from LGBTQ-inclusive books.

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Kristi Noem Turns Cruelty Into Content for Her DHS Deportation Ads

Noem, wearing a $50,000 watch in her ICE cosplay videos, encapsulates the aesthetic cruelty of the Trump regime.

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Kilmar Abrego García Case Shows Constitutional Crisis Is Here

"Depriving due process is the domino that causes the rest of the legal system to fall,” one constitutional scholar said.

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“Youth Are Going to Die Because of This”: Trump Defunds Violence Prevention

Trump cut short crucial research on violence prevention, halting studies that have been underway for months and years.

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Child Care Funding Cuts Will Compound Crises for Generations to Come

Access to child care is already inadequate across the US. Trump's funding cuts to Head Start will make it far worse.

04.04.2025 20

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Democrats’ “Reshuffling” on Trans Issues Cedes Key Territory to the Far Right

The right is using trans rights as a wedge issue. We must not fall for it.

28.03.2025 10

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Basic Reforms to New York’s Legal Code Are At Risk as Democrats Lurch Rightward

In 2019, New York made it easier for defendants to learn about information used against them. That could now be revoked.

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With Arrest of Midwife, Texas Escalates Chilling Reproductive Rights Crackdown

The near-total abortion ban in Texas has already been deadly. A criminalizing crackdown will make mortality rates worse.

23.03.2025 20

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Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism

When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.

22.03.2025 6

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Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup

The corporation behind Roundup herbicide has paid out nearly $11 billion in lawsuits. Now it's backing an EPA rule that would stop the bleeding. The...

21.03.2025 10

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The Attack on Mahmoud Khalil Is Straight Out of the “War on Terror” Playbook

Past administrations handed Trump the tools of fascism, from the Department of Homeland Security to mass surveillance.

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After Failures in the Courts, the GOP Is Threatening Sanctuary City Mayors

Republicans have had decades to prove sanctuary policies are illegal. They haven’t.

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Trump’s EPA Is Botching Removal of Toxic Waste From the Los Angeles Fires

Under Trump’s guidance, the EPA is prioritizing speed over public health, refusing to test ash from LA for toxicity.

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Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback?

Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim Ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.

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As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking

The FBI is hassling Palestine activists. ICE is compiling dossiers on those who criticize it. Let's know our rights.

19.02.2025 8

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We Are About to Learn What a Post-Truth Approach to Public Health Feels Like

Trump and Musk are slashing global vaccination efforts, funding for medical research and access to health information.

15.02.2025 10

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DOGE’s Illegal Takeover Pulls From Fascist Playbooks

When we see a parallel government taking shape, we should not refrain from calling fascism what it is.

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What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the US Working Class?

Trump’s challenge to the neoliberal order is aimed at increasing capitalists’ profits, not helping workers.

07.02.2025 6

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Here’s How Faith Leaders Are Standing Between ICE and Their Congregants

As Trump ramps up his deportation agenda and revokes “sensitive location” policy, religious groups are fighting back.

31.01.2025 4

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What Do Trump’s New Directives Mean for Reproductive Rights?

“Abortion is still legal. Abortion is still accessible in many, many parts of the country.”

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How Is Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Being Used? Here’s What We Know.

Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.

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TikTok Shouldn’t Be Banned, But It Still Values Profit Over Privacy

A ban would be a nightmare for civil liberties. But TikTok, like all Big Tech platforms, is no friend to the left.

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By Voting for Laken Riley Act, Democrats Cede More Power to Anti-Immigrant Right

Republicans are pushing the new legislation, which will bring an already hostile immigration status quo into chaos.

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Mutual Aid Networks That Emerged in Housing Crisis Are Mobilizing Amid LA Fires

“If you can make a sandwich, you can start a mutual aid network,” one Los Angeles organizer told Truthout.

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While Los Angeles Burns, AI Fans the Flames

Artificial intelligence is a water-guzzling industry hastening future climate crises from California's own backyard.

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LA Gave More Money to Cops While Cutting Fire Budgets. Now It’s Burning.

“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist. The post LA...

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Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss

We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day. Nearly five years since COVID-19 was declared a global...

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What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

The autumn sun was sinking low behind the Blue Ridge Mountains as we pulled into Swannanoa. It was Thanksgiving Day, and two months since Hurricane...

25.12.2024 4

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Luigi Mangione’s Indictment Is Another Example of the Dangers of Terror Charges

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing...

21.12.2024 4

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After 86 Years, Disabled Workers Could Finally Receive Minimum Wage Protections

For nearly 90 years, the wealthiest country in the world has allowed thousands of disabled people to be paid mere pennies on the dollar. Now, after...

07.12.2024 3

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ICJ Hearings Offer New Chance to Get Rich Countries to Pay for Climate Crisis

Five years ago, a group of 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific came together and hatched a bold new plan to bring the issue of...

04.12.2024 6

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What Could We Lose With Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. in Charge of Our Health?

The United States healthcare system is so broken, sometimes I forget that it used to be even worse. After all, 15 short years ago, pregnant people...

29.11.2024 6

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Inside Christian Nationalists’ Legal Long Game to End Church-State Separation

When schoolchildren across Texas return to classrooms next fall, thousands could encounter new, Bible-infused lessons. The Texas board of education...

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