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© 2025 TruthoutTrump Dumping Musk Is Not Enough to Stop the Wreckage of the Federal Government
Even if Trump splits with Musk, the tech bro’s strategy of wrecking institutions and pushing legal limits will live on.Read the StoryChild 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.Poll Finds Over a Third in US Can’t Access Quality Health Care — a New High
A new Gallup survey finds 11 percent of US adults can’t access quality care and can’t pay for care or medicine.USDA Suspends Maine Education Funds Over State’s Support for Trans Athletes
Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills warned that the “rule of law in our country” is at stake.Let’s Be Politically Promiscuous
“Our movements are pretty much just made of our relationships,” says author and activist Dean Spade.Bread Lines, Empty Shelves, Bombed Farms — This Is How Starvation Feels in Gaza
In Gaza, many of us have come to fear the forced starvation that Israel is inflicting on us more than its bombs.Latest Stories
Only 15 Senators Back Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50k
The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”Federal Judge Halts Alabama’s Effort to Target Interstate Abortion Care
“The court’s decision today should send a strong message to any and all anti-abortion politicians,” an attorney said.California Ethnic Studies Bill Aims to Censor Palestine-Related Education
The proposed legislation is the newest front in a yearslong attack on ethnic studies in California.Mahmoud Khalil’s Attorney: “This Is the McCarthy Era All Over Again”
The US government is weaponizing antisemitism as an excuse to kidnap and deport even lawful permanent residents.With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.Silence Isn’t a Strategy: Academic Leaders Must Resist Assault on Higher Ed
Capitulating to the assault on higher education will only bring more attacks.Martin Sostre’s Life Teaches Us Revolutionary Moments Are Always Upon Us
Sostre laid a foundation for contemporary Black anarchism and prison abolition. A new biography finally tells his story.Wisconsin Court Race Is Most Expensive Ever. Where Is the Money Coming From?
We follow the money to reveal the out-of-state billionaires who have spent big to try to influence state supreme courts.Palestine
Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved”
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Israel Bombs UN Clinic, Killing 22, Days After Gaza Medics Found in Mass Grave
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Swarthmore College Sanctions 15 Pro-Palestine Student Protesters
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Israel’s Genocide Has Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined: Report
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Tlaib, Jayapal Introduce Resolutions to Block Trump’s Weapons Sales to Israel
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Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza Reflect Desperation as Israel Escalates Genocide
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This Eid Was Supposed to Be a Moment of Respite — Not Another Day of Mourning
“We believe [Alfredo Juarez’s] detention is politically motivated because of his organizing in the farmworker and immigrant community. ”
– Edgar Franks, political director of Familias Unidas Por La Justicia, an independent farmworker union in Washington State , from With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement Read the StoryMovement Memos
We Must Burst Our Algorithmic Bubbles and Build Together Across Difference
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Fight Fear, Build Power: Community Defense Works
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Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together
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We Won’t Take Risks Alone. Our Relationships Make a Better World Possible.
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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era
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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives
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To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change
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