Part of the Series The Public Intellectual 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. On June 6, resistance ignited in the streets of Los Angeles to confront the Trump regime’s brutal campaign against immigrants,...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. A leading press freedom advocate on Tuesday condemned the United States’ “disturbing pattern” of screening and expelling international visitors for their political viewpoints following the detention and removal of an Australian journalist who criticized the Trump administration’s targeting...
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. Rani Dasi, a U.S. citizen whose roots in North Carolina stretch back nearly two decades, has cast a ballot in at least 20 elections without incident. But...
There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible. 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. Israel’s attack on Iran opens a huge danger of escalation in the...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. After reports of student arrests and detainments, an international student at Nashville, Tennessee’s Belmont University, canceled his flight home to India. A thousand miles away in Boston, a foreign medical resident called off his...
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. In 2022, Alabama became one of the first states in the nation to ban slavery without exception. A constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly by voters, removed language that...
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 environmental justice worker, I’ve developed a deep appreciation for Juneteenth as an opportunity to celebrate Black freedom struggles and their connection to diverse ecologies. Today,...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As Donald Trump considers a U.S. war with Iran and the Pentagon builds up military forces in the Middle East, I find myself returning, oddly, to a question posed by Leo Tolstoy: “How many men are necessary to change a crime...
“We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,” IAEA’s Rafael Grossi said. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The head of the leading intergovernmental watchdog for nuclear energy and atomic weapons has confirmed that the agency...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Tennessee law that bans physicians from providing gender-affirming care to transgender children, a decision that will likely reverberate across the more than two dozen states that have...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Over the objections of critics who say a landmark cryptocurrency bill lacks adequate consumer and financial system protections, among other concerns, several Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to pass the legislation that would establish a regulatory...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an observer and escort for people with immigration hearings in recent weeks. In this case, while accompanying...
The evangelical pastor and ambassador to Iran told Trump he “will hear from heaven” with guidance about the war. 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. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has suggested...
Lander had been escorting a defendant at immigration court when ICE officials swarmed in and handcuffed both of them. 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. Brad Lander, a progressive mayoral candidate for New...
US spies have assessed that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapon for over 20 years. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he doesn’t care that his own Director of National Intelligence...