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While the GOP slashes health care funding at the federal level, some state governors are following suit.
The Republican budget bill blocking state regulations also allocates hundreds of millions in federal funds toward AI.
Trump is dangerously underfunding FEMA, leaving states that rely on it unprepared in the face of upcoming severe storms.
While the Heritage Foundation document focuses on the Palestine solidarity movement, its ultimate target is far broader.
Corporations are likely to respond to the tariffs by further exploiting overseas workers to keep the profits flowing.
Trump is using the baseless claim of “white genocide” promoted by the likes of Elon Musk to grant asylum to Afrikaners.
Families with mixed immigration status are being torn apart as Trump advances his mass deportation agenda.
NYU Law reversed course on its demand that students renounce protests to take finals — but they are still banned from most school buildings. The...
After being banned from campus buildings following peaceful sit-ins, students said the disciplinary processes broke from school policies. The post NYU...
Project 2025 offered a chilling vision of executive power. The agenda Trump is implementing is even more disturbing.
The right-wing movement wants the Supreme Court’s help to alienate students from LGBTQ-inclusive books.
Noem, wearing a $50,000 watch in her ICE cosplay videos, encapsulates the aesthetic cruelty of the Trump regime.
"Depriving due process is the domino that causes the rest of the legal system to fall,” one constitutional scholar said.
Trump cut short crucial research on violence prevention, halting studies that have been underway for months and years.
Access to child care is already inadequate across the US. Trump's funding cuts to Head Start will make it far worse.
The right is using trans rights as a wedge issue. We must not fall for it.
In 2019, New York made it easier for defendants to learn about information used against them. That could now be revoked.
The near-total abortion ban in Texas has already been deadly. A criminalizing crackdown will make mortality rates worse.
When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.
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...
Past administrations handed Trump the tools of fascism, from the Department of Homeland Security to mass surveillance.
Republicans have had decades to prove sanctuary policies are illegal. They haven’t.
Under Trump’s guidance, the EPA is prioritizing speed over public health, refusing to test ash from LA for toxicity.
Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim Ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.
The FBI is hassling Palestine activists. ICE is compiling dossiers on those who criticize it. Let's know our rights.
Trump and Musk are slashing global vaccination efforts, funding for medical research and access to health information.
When we see a parallel government taking shape, we should not refrain from calling fascism what it is.
Trump’s challenge to the neoliberal order is aimed at increasing capitalists’ profits, not helping workers.
As Trump ramps up his deportation agenda and revokes “sensitive location” policy, religious groups are fighting back.
“Abortion is still legal. Abortion is still accessible in many, many parts of the country.”
Trans people in federal custody are already feeling immediate impacts of the order, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter says.
A ban would be a nightmare for civil liberties. But TikTok, like all Big Tech platforms, is no friend to the left.
Republicans are pushing the new legislation, which will bring an already hostile immigration status quo into chaos.
“If you can make a sandwich, you can start a mutual aid network,” one Los Angeles organizer told Truthout.
Artificial intelligence is a water-guzzling industry hastening future climate crises from California's own backyard.
“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...
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...
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...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing...
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...
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...
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...
When schoolchildren across Texas return to classrooms next fall, thousands could encounter new, Bible-infused lessons. The Texas board of education...
Since last October, Israel has been able to wage a genocidal war on Gaza while receiving little more than a light slap on the wrist. President Joe...
Last week, 52 Democrats voted to embolden a fascist. Let’s back up. For the past year, leading members of the Democratic Party have increasingly...
For decades, making progress on global climate action has felt like trying to tunnel through a mountain with only a spoon and some elbow grease....
We’ve been here before. This is not 2016, when Donald J. Trump’s surge to victory shocked much of the nation. We know how Trump operates and can...
There’s an old saying that goes, “If you put 10 economists in a room, you’ll get 11 opinions.” The data, meanwhile, shows that if you ask U.S....
The Veepification of U.S. politics reached its climax this month, as Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a swing state campaign tour alongside...
On the morning of June 24, 2022, I woke up, checked my phone and saw that nearly 50 years of legal precedent had fallen. We’d heard it was coming,...