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DOJ Just Shut Disabled People Out of Essential Online Services for Another Year

Disability rights advocates say everything from filing for unemployment to voting in the midterms just got much harder.

By: Marianne Dhenin ,; Truthout

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Politics & Elections

South Florida Elected Official Targets 2 Constituents Who Are JVP Activists

Jewish Voice for Peace says a city commissioner personally spent $4,000 on billboard trucks targeting local activists.

By: Eleanor J. Bader ,; Truthout

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Human Rights

Israel Ramps Up Demolitions of Palestinian Homes Ahead of Fall Elections

East Jerusalem is days away from its largest forced displacement since 1967.

By: Theia Chatelle ,; Truthout

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Culture & Media

Is There a Future Without Incarceration? Abolitionist Art Shows Us One.

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

By: Nicholas Powers ,; Truthout

Protesters rally against the use of Flock cameras on April 3, 2026, outside City Hall in Troy, NY.

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Prisons & Policing

Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding

Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women.

By: Mike Ludwig ,; Truthout

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One after his departure from Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing, China, on May 15, 2026, on his way back to the United States.

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Education & Youth

Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”

Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats.

By: Jesse Hagopian ,; Truthout

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Rocket trails are seen in the sky above the Israeli city of Netanya amid a fresh barrage of Iranian missile attacks on March 11, 2026. The Israeli military said on March 10, it had begun a new wave of strikes on Tehran, on the 11th day of the Middle East war.

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War & Peace

US Military Using More Missiles to Defend Israel Than Israel Itself

This raises questions about the US relationship with Israel as well as the US’s use of weapons throughout the war.

By: Shireen Akram-Boshar ,; Truthout

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War & Peace

Trump Says He “Gets a Kick” Out of Criticisms He Receives for US Military Deaths

There have been nearly 400 US military casualties in Operation Epic Fury so far.

By: Chris Walker ,; Truthout

A woman peeks out from the doorway of her home next to a wall with a graffiti reading "CUBA" on a street in Havana, Cuba, on May 6, 2026.

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Politics & Elections

Despite Trump’s Oil Blockade, Quiet Resistance of Daily Life Continues in Cuba

People who have withstood 64 years of economic blockade won’t simply raise a white flag at the latest sign of adversity.

By: Kurt Hackbarth ,; Truthout

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Racial Justice

Black Workers Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine During Trump 2.0

In 2016, Trump asked Black voters what they had to lose if he was president. In 2026, the answer is clear.

By: Austin C. McCoy ,; Truthout

U.S. and Israeli rabbis and rabbinical students from the group Rabbis for Ceasefire, joined by peace activists, march toward the Erez crossing on the border with northern Gaza Strip symbolically carrying bags of rice and white flags, to call for a permanent ceasefire on April 26, 2024.

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Culture & Media

Jewish Holiday of Shavuot Links Economic Justice With Expanding Social Freedom

The divisions the ruling class manufactures and depends upon hinder the universal liberation that the Torah envisions.

By: Andrue Kahn &; Dania Rajendra ,; Truthout

A man marches holding a Cuban national flag along Havana's waterfront to mark International Workers' Day at the AntiImperialist Platform in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on May 1, 2026.

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War & Peace

Cuba Has a Rich History of International Solidarity. US Wants to Extinguish It.

Washington has long deployed economic pressure to challenge Cuba’s fiercely independent social and foreign policies.

By: Jonathan Ng ,; Truthout

A displaced Palestinian stands on the rubble the day after a house was targeted in an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the central of Gaza Strip, on May 20, 2026.

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Politics & Elections

Gaza Reconstruction Is Hindered as Israel Restricts Aid and Building Materials

“The children ask me when we will return to a proper home, and I have no answer,” said one displaced resident.

By: Eman Abu Zayed ,; Truthout

A woman dressed as a mifepristone pill dances with supporters of Planned Parenthood and pro-choice activists during a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

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Reproductive Rights

Battle Over Medication Abortion Threatens to Revert US Back to 19th Century

SCOTUS has temporarily paused a Fifth Circuit Court ruling that echoed the Comstock Act of 1873, an anti-obscenity law.

By: Emma Cieslik ,; Truthout

Iran

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (right) walk off the House floor of the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Day in a Row

“Today’s segregationist politics arrive dressed in procedural language, judicial reasoning, and carefully constructed talking points designed to make injustice sound administrative rather than ideological.”

– Earle J. Fisher, from Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance

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Voting Wrongs

A voter casts his ballot at the Kent Free Library during the Ohio primaries on May 5, 2026, in Kent, Ohio.

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Tulsi Gabbard Exit Marks Fourth Woman to Leave Trump Cabinet

Black Farmers Warn Pollution Is Changing The Food on Our Plates

The Trump Administration Is Shielding Prediction Markets

Cubans Rally in Havana Against the Trump Administration’s Threats to Attack

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DOJ Just Shut Disabled People Out of Essential Online Services for Another Year

South Florida Elected Official Targets 2 Constituents Who Are JVP Activists

Israel Ramps Up Demolitions of Palestinian Homes Ahead of Fall Elections

Is There a Future Without Incarceration? Abolitionist Art Shows Us One.

Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding

Trump Describes Executions to Kids, While MAGA Bans Lessons Causing “Discomfort”

Latest Stories

US Military Using More Missiles to Defend Israel Than Israel Itself

Trump Says He “Gets a Kick” Out of Criticisms He Receives for US Military Deaths

Despite Trump’s Oil Blockade, Quiet Resistance of Daily Life Continues in Cuba

Black Workers Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine During Trump 2.0

Jewish Holiday of Shavuot Links Economic Justice With Expanding Social Freedom

Cuba Has a Rich History of International Solidarity. US Wants to Extinguish It.

Gaza Reconstruction Is Hindered as Israel Restricts Aid and Building Materials

Battle Over Medication Abortion Threatens to Revert US Back to 19th Century

Iran

House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Day in a Row

After Months of Failed Votes, Senate Finally Advances Iran War Powers Resolution

From Asia to the Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice

Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States

Trump’s War on Iran Is a Symptom of Unchecked US Military Power

Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran

Rep. Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block House Iran War Powers Resolution Yet Again

Voting Wrongs

Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy

SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Rights Act Puts a Third of Black Caucus Seats at Risk

Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance

Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow

Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act

Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating”

Trump Allies Circulating Draft Order to Declare National Emergency on Elections

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House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Day in a Row

After Months of Failed Votes, Senate Finally Advances Iran War Powers Resolution

From Asia to the Middle East, US Bombs Are a Failed Foreign Policy Choice

Trump Claims He Cancelled Planned Attack on Iran at Request of Gulf States

Trump’s War on Iran Is a Symptom of Unchecked US Military Power

Despite Repeated Bombings, CENTCOM Head Denies US Targeted Schools in Iran

Rep. Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block House Iran War Powers Resolution Yet Again

Gutting Voting Rights Act Is Just First Step in Far Right Plan to End Democracy

SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Rights Act Puts a Third of Black Caucus Seats at Risk

Tennessee’s War on Black Political Power Demands Not Just Outrage But Resistance

Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow

Supreme Court Is Poised to Gut Remaining Protections of the Voting Rights Act

Trump Votes by Mail in Florida Special Election, Despite Calling It “Cheating”

Trump Allies Circulating Draft Order to Declare National Emergency on Elections