The Supreme Court effectively blocked the judiciary’s ability to stop Trump from implementing a huge range of policies. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump has said that he is “promptly”...
Part of the Series The Public Intellectual Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. My dear friend, Bill Moyers, died yesterday. He was the finest interviewer I’ve ever worked with, probing, fearless, and profoundly attuned to both the fragility and the...
Voters are opposed to numerous items on Trump’s agenda — from his use of the military to his “Big Beautiful Bill.” Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Polling data in recent months has...
Trump said this week that he wants Netanyahu’s trial “CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY.” Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again asked for proceedings for his criminal trial to...
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Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. A watershed moment in the fight to hold corporations accountable for complicity in Israel’s war crimes: A.P. Møller Maersk has become the first global shipping company to halt the transport of goods to and from Israeli settlements after...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against vaccinations, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrawing U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization. The group — known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. The financial system of the United States has always been prone to instability and crises. Now, however, under the new Trump administration, which is pushing for major cuts in regulation, including in the cryptocurrency...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! Right-wing lawmakers and commentators have responded to New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s landmark win on Tuesday with blatantly Islamophobic and xenophobic hatred, inciting violence against the left-wing politician who was already recently subject to a hate-related death threat. Mamdani,...
The suit seeks to upend an order from a Maryland judge last month protecting immigrants’ due process rights. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. As an Iranian, I felt a surge of relief — and cautious hope — when I heard news of the ceasefire between Iran and Israel. The bloodshed...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. At the NATO summit in the Hague, almost all European nations reached an agreement to raise military spending to 5% of each county’s GDP. This comes as President Trump said the U.S. would not...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Zohran Mamdani’s win in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has delivered a shock to the political establishment nationwide, forcing media pundits and...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Before all the images of smoldering cities, of hooded men tortured and beaten, and of bloodied bodies lying in the dust, there was Colin Powell holding up...
Palantir is reportedly building a mega-database of Americans’ personal information for the Trump administration. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! New reporting has revealed that President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff owns over $100,000 in stock of Palantir, the shady firm said to be tapped by...