GOP Centrists Rock the House, Force ACA Subsidy Showdown
By Joshua Scheer Four centrist Republican members of the U.S. House broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition that will compel a floor vote…
A blog by Josh Scheer
By Joshua Scheer Four centrist Republican members of the U.S. House broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition that will compel a floor vote…
By Kit Klarenberg for his Substack On November 25th 1975, the 60th birthday of Chile’s CIA-installed dictator General Augusto Pinochet, high-ranking representatives of the repressive secret police forces of Argentina,…
By Maya Schenwar & Negin Owliaei for Truthout It’s becoming something of a theme: Two massive companies are fighting to take over another massive company, in a deal that will…
By Mike Ludwig for Truthout Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire from disaster survivors for mismanaging the federal government’s response to recent storms, floods, and…
By Rodrigo Acuña for Truthout President Donald Trump has escalated threats against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, and reports now say the Trump administration is preparing for the…
by Max Blau for ProPublica When Jon Esformes was in his 20s, farmworkers staged protests outside one of his family’s tomato farms, in California’s Central Valley, calling out the fact…
By Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a…
By: Joshua Scheer A Democratic senator has raised alarms over President Donald Trump’s potential use of U.S. military strikes targeting American citizens on U.S. soil by using the same justification…
Joshua Scheer At a recent House Homeland Security Committee hearing, FBI official Michael Glasheen — operations director of the Bureau’s National Security Branch — described the anti-fascist movement antifa as…
By Sasha Abramsky for Truthout The Trump administration is one of the most anti-labor administrations in modern U.S. history — it has attempted to decertify the union representation of more…
Joshua S Honduras is facing a deep political crisis as President Xiomara Castro warns that an “electoral coup” is unfolding, accusing powerful business and political elites of trying to block…
By Nora Loreto for Truthout On Saturday, December 6, soccer fans around the world will find out where their favorite teams will be playing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.…
By Derek Seidman for Truthout Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee…
By Jon Queally Republished from Common Dreams A new assessment by the international wealth management giant UBS this week shows that the number of billionaires in the world has reached…
By Jill Clark-Gollub and Margaret Flowers Printed From Popular Resistance Speakers from four affected countries — Cuba, Nicaragua, Palestine and Venezuela — describe the deadly toll of blockades and sanctions,…