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Truthout is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.

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The industry uses fantasies of technological dominance to paper over financial shortcomings and demands for regulation. truthout.org/articles/ai-tec…
AI Techno-Utopianism and Doomsday Threats Distract From Big Tech’s Current Harms

AI Techno-Utopianism and Doomsday Threats Distract From Big Tech’s Current Harms

The industry uses fantasies of technological dominance to paper over financial shortcomings and demands for regulation.

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Millions of Medicare enrollees will see premiums rise by 50 percent in 2027, a new analysis finds. truthout.org/articles/as-tru…
As Trump Claims to Bring Drug Prices Down, Medicare Drug Plans Hike Premiums

As Trump Claims to Bring Drug Prices Down, Medicare Drug Plans Hike Premiums

Millions of Medicare enrollees will see premiums rise by 50 percent in 2027, a new analysis finds.

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The threat is the latest of Trump’s wide-ranging efforts to undermine democratic processes ahead of the midterms. truthout.org/articles/federa…
Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Threats to Prosecute Election Officials

Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Threats to Prosecute Election Officials

The threat is the latest of Trump’s wide-ranging efforts to undermine democratic processes ahead of the midterms.

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Plug-in balcony solar panels can never match the booming rooftop solar movement that state utility regulators derailed. truthout.org/articles/califo…
California’s New Balcony Solar Bill Isn’t a Victory — It’s a Compromise

California’s New Balcony Solar Bill Isn’t a Victory — It’s a Compromise

Plug-in balcony solar panels can never match the booming rooftop solar movement that state utility regulators derailed.

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DC organizations are pointing to a pattern of weaponizing official investigations to intimidate civil society groups. truthout.org/articles/house-…
House Oversight Chair Is Using His Power to Investigate DC Organizers

House Oversight Chair Is Using His Power to Investigate DC Organizers

DC organizations are pointing to a pattern of weaponizing official investigations to intimidate civil society groups.

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Missouri is among the few states to push back against Republican-drawn maps. This is how voters did it. truthout.org/articles/kansas…
Kansas City Residents Won a Rare Victory Against Racist Gerrymandering

Kansas City Residents Won a Rare Victory Against Racist Gerrymandering

Missouri is among the few states to push back against Republican-drawn maps. This is how voters did it.

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“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said Friday. truthout.org/articles/after-…
After Surviving Botched Execution, Christa Pike Speaks Out

After Surviving Botched Execution, Christa Pike Speaks Out

“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said Friday.

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Saudi, Pakistani, and Turkish leaders met with Iranian officials in Tehran, signaling their reticence to renew the war. truthout.org/articles/as-us-…
As US and Israel Plot Iran Escalation, Regional Powers Scramble to Avert It

As US and Israel Plot Iran Escalation, Regional Powers Scramble to Avert It

Saudi, Pakistani, and Turkish leaders met with Iranian officials in Tehran, signaling their reticence to renew the war.

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Having enshrined youths’ right to hug parents during visits behind bars, activists are pushing for decarceration. truthout.org/articles/incarc…
Incarcerated Los Angeles Youth Fought for the Right to Hug Their Parents — and Won

Incarcerated Los Angeles Youth Fought for the Right to Hug Their Parents — and Won

Having enshrined youths’ right to hug parents during visits behind bars, activists are pushing for decarceration.

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Ohio’s state court election has been a circus of corporate and dark money campaigning. truthout.org/articles/billio…
Billionaires Captured Ohio’s Supreme Court. Now They Want a Fully GOP Court.

Billionaires Captured Ohio’s Supreme Court. Now They Want a Fully GOP Court.

Ohio’s state court election has been a circus of corporate and dark money campaigning.

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As Americans have been forced to shell out an extra $148 billion on gas and diesel in eight months of war on Iran, Big Oil has reaped record profits — with U.S. companies having made over $130 billion in profits, a new analysis finds.truthout.org/articles/while-…
Americans Have Paid $148B Extra on Gas Amid Iran War. Big Oil Has Made $130B in Profits.

Americans Have Paid $148B Extra on Gas Amid Iran War. Big Oil Has Made $130B in Profits.

“All the excess cash we’re accumulating will ultimately be directed toward our owners,” one oil executive bragged.

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Israeli bulldozers are “terraforming” the landscape to erase all traces of Palestinian life. With thousands of bodies still unrecovered from under destroyed buildings, Israel’s flattening and reshaping of the rubble in Gaza is a continuation of its crimes.truthout.org/video/israel-is…
Israel Is Creating a “Permanent Architecture of Control” Amid Gaza Genocide

Israel Is Creating a “Permanent Architecture of Control” Amid Gaza Genocide

Israel’s flattening, extraction, and reshaping of the rubble in Gaza is a continuation of its crimes, says an expert.

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The UK has barred Swedish climate scholar and Palestinian rights advocate Andreas Malm from entering the country, just days before he was scheduled to speak at a conference that will also feature a co-founder of Palestine Action.truthout.org/articles/uk-bar…
UK Bars Entry to Swedish Climate Scholar Who Advocates for Palestinian Rights

UK Bars Entry to Swedish Climate Scholar Who Advocates for Palestinian Rights

Andreas Malm was scheduled to speak at a conference that will also feature a co-founder of Palestine Action.

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“Harvard has cut over $3 million from our benefits funds that we had access to in our last contract. We no longer have access to health care, dental, vision, and they cut parental benefits by 50%,” said Sarah Johns, a member of HGSU’s bargaining committee.truthout.org/articles/grad-s…
Grad Students Strike at Harvard, University With $68 Billion Endowment

Grad Students Strike at Harvard, University With $68 Billion Endowment

“None of us here, despite attending the wealthiest university in the entire world, make a living wage.”…

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On October 30, port workers in over 100 locations across the world stood in principled resistance to Israel’s ongoing genocide through an international strike meant to constrict the arms trade and physically halt munitions destined to be used in Palestine.truthout.org/articles/housto…
Houston Activists Are Working to Disrupt the Flow of Weapons to Israel

Houston Activists Are Working to Disrupt the Flow of Weapons to Israel

Organizers and workers around the world are highlighting the invisible complicity of logistics companies in genocide.

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From coast to coast, linking arms in the struggle against maritime transport has been a historic strategy to intervene in the material transport of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment, through coordinated direct action by the working class.
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More than 150,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children were separated from their families and forced to attend residential schools across Canada between the 1870s and the 1990s, “It was physically painful and extraordinarily cruel.” truthout.org/articles/masked…
Masked White Supremacists Are Stoking Residential School Denialism in Canada

Masked White Supremacists Are Stoking Residential School Denialism in Canada

“We have endured fear, and we will not be intimidated,” one Indigenous leader said.

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The children were barred from speaking their languages, and thousands are believed to have died due to abuse, malnutrition, and rampant disease that resulted from squalid conditions. In 2015, a federal commission of inquiry said the system amounted to “cultural genocide.”
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Now, the rising wave of residential school denialism has drawn widespread alarm as Indigenous community leaders and other experts say right-wing figures are trying to derail truth and reconciliation, while harming survivors in the process.
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