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The United Nations Must Cure Haiti of the Cholera Epidemic It Caused
Unlike earthquake or hurricane, Haiti's cholera outbreak is a manmade disaster u2013 by the very agency supposed to protect it.
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I’m Black and I Want More “Stuff” and “Things”: An Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly
On election night, as it became increasingly clear that Mitt Romney was going to lose the election to Barack Obama, I watched Fox News host Megyn Kelly ask you, …
James on Hurricane Sandy
We met James while walking around the East Village.
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The Deeper Lessons of the U.S. Presidential Election
So for a while the political placards will no longer litter our streets and lawns. The commercials on TV and radio will for awhile be devoid of political commercial …
Marriage Not Necessarily a Path Out of Poverty
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research demonstrates that marriage alone does not ensure economic security and that most parents with below-poverty incomes who are …
Solving the Six-Billion Dollar Problem
Nick Nyhart, co-founder, President and CEO of Public Campaign, discusses the potential solutions to the $6 billion dollar problem.
The Mandate of Hell: How Not to Change the World
Tom Engelhardt: Stop waiting for change, u201cbigu201d or otherwise, to come from Washington. It wonu2019t.
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Is Everything OK?
William Rivers Pitt: Truthout has not bought into the fantasy that everything is okay now; far from it.
The People Vs. the War on Drugs: Filmmaker Tackles the “Predatory Monster“
In the stunning “The House I Live In,” filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has made a film about the expansive and many-tentacled topic of the drug war.
Mirror, Mirror: Who’s Really Behind the Lack of Gender, Sexual and Racial Diversity in Comics?
Who, exactly, keeps our media so homogeneous? Hint: It isn't the usual suspects.