The Real News Network

12/19/2025

Before taking a much-needed break to recover and prepare for the hard fight ahead, we asked our team to share their selections of the most impactful stories we produced this year.

TRNN’s staff picks our best reporting from 2025.

12/19/2025

“It’s not fair. We’re people, our lives matter. My daughter’s life matters. And that’s what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

12/18/2025

After over 3 years on strike, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While the legal battle is still unresolved, this is a major victory for the labor movement.

12/18/2025

“We still don’t have any help. We know that people are still sick. We’ve known people are sick. There’s still people in town wanting to get out.”

“We still don't have any help. We know that people are still sick. We've known people are sick. There's still people in town wanting to get out.”

12/17/2025

If Obama could kill a 16-year-old American boy without accountability, why wouldn’t Trump believe he has the same power to s***f out the lives of civilians with no due process?

12/17/2025

On Dec. 20, 1989, the United States invaded Panama with 26,000 troops. They destroyed 20,000 homes. They killed hundreds of innocent people. Panamanian citizens will not forget and they still demand justice. This is episode 81 of Stories of Resistance.

12/17/2025

John Arnold and other AI boosters have plenty of reasons to “streamline” energy capacity—some less noble than others.

12/17/2025

“I thought, ‘I’m in a small town, nothing’s going to bother me’… But the night that I was sitting on my couch, that’s when my normal, small-town life changed in an instant.”

“I thought, ‘I'm in a small town, nothing's going to bother me’... But the night that I was sitting on my couch, that's when my normal, small-town life changed in an instant.”

12/16/2025

If the point of a healthcare system is to provide people with the healthcare they need, the Republican proposals are nonstarters.

If the point of a healthcare system is to provide people with the healthcare they need, the Republican proposals are nonstarters

12/16/2025

The administration’s National Security Strategy signals a return to more outwardly interventionist policies.

12/16/2025

“This is an atrocious downplaying of real antisemitism at a time when rampant Jew hatred is killing people,” said an American congressional candidate and school shooting survivor.