Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom
By Derek Seidman for Truthout “The demand for power and for AI is like nothing I’ve ever seen.” These words were uttered during an October earnings call, not by a…
Trump’s Spectacles of Violence Can’t Hold Back the Growing Tide of Discontent
By Nicholas Powers for Truthout “My family is scared to step outside,” a student admitted during my class. Around him heads nodded. All were born in the U.S. but most…
Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Seeks to Further Codify White Supremacy
ByCamilo Pérez-Bustillo for Truthout the Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing early next year regarding historic challenges to the Trump administration’s attempt to undermine the Fourteenth Amendment’s longstanding guarantee of…
Queer and Trans People Were Under Attack in 2025. Here’s How We Fought Back.
By Toshio Meronek & Eric A. Stanley for Truthout This year — 2025 — was bleak. There’s trans joy around, but to keep it from drying up we’re going to…
Amid Starvation and Mass Killings, This Gaza Baker Refused to Stop Her Work
By Dalia Abu Ramadan for Truthout The hardest part of working during the war was the endless search for the ingredients I needed to make cakes,” 23-year-old Gaza baker Dema…
2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration
By Lauren Rankin for Truthout With a decidedly anti-choice Trump administration taking office at its start, 2025 was poised to be yet another brutal year for abortion rights. Advocates feared…
Hawai‘i Has a Rare Opportunity to Reclaim Land From the US Military
By Christine Ahn & Davis Price for Truthout Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1.…
Police in Many “Sanctuary Cities” Have Repeatedly Collaborated With ICE
By Ella Fassler for Truthout/TheAppeal In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived in the city’s northwest. According to a police…
Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Let’s Act to Defend It in 2026.
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…
Survivors Slam Kristi Noem Over FEMA’s Response to Deadly Disasters
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…
Experts Say Even Average Venezuelans Critical of Maduro Won’t Back Regime Change
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…
US Relied on Illegal Sanctions to Seize Venezuelan Oil Tanker
By Marjorie Cohn This article was originally published by Truthout US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter.…
Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America
By Michael Fox for Truthout On Wednesday, December 10, Donald Trump announced that the United States had seized a tanker in the Caribbean carrying more than 1.6 million barrels of…
Secretive New Mexico Data Center Plan Races Forward Despite Community Pushback
By Dan Ross for Truthout At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico, a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center is gearing up to be a…