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One in Three US Deaths Would Be Avoided if US Income Distribution Was the Same as Most European Countries
Study: Those who live in societies with a higher level of income inequality are at a greater risk for premature death.
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“Russia With Love”: Alaska Gas Scandal Is Out-of-Country, Not Out-of-State
The question of who owns Alaska's natural gas and where they're from, at least for now, has been off the table.
They Are Watching You: The National Security State and the US-Mexican Border
With massive growth and robust financing, with ever increasing budgets and resources, US Customs and Border Protection is reshaping the country - and the world.
Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere
Public Intellectual Henry Giroux speaks with Truthout about his new book and its exploration of how neoliberalism forces students into an intellectual and moral dead zone devoid of imagination.
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A Living Minimum Wage
A living wage must mean a minimum wage that rises to meet the higher living standards of each new generation to be a living threshold, not a dead hand …
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Oligarchy USA
At long last, we have irrefutable proof that the one indispensable nation has been subsumed by a bona fide oligarchy.
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Climate Change Messaging: Avoid the Truth
We must admit that climate change is an unavoidable outcome of an unsustainable political-economy, and techno-fixes will not save us.
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The Pain of Austerity, Remedied by Keynesian Policy
There's now a full-court press of the usual suspects claiming that the recovery in Britain proves that fiscal austerity isn't contractionary after all, that the International Monetary Fund had …
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Conservatives Are Scared Straight by a Frenchman
Raise the Capital Gains tax to 39 percent, where the earned income tax is. It's easy. Reagan actually did it - for one year.
Supreme Court Hears Argentina Predatory Hedge Fund Discovery Case
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears arguments between Argentina and holdouts who refused two debt restructuring deals after Argentina defaulted on its debts in 2001.