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As we come up on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration is poised to sign a US-Afghan strategic partnership agreement that could …

Noam Chomsky has seen a lot of social movements. He cut his teeth on the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He participated in the …

“Gas Rush” is the place to find original insight and analysis on one of the most heated environmental debates in America. As fracking spreads across the country, Truthout chronicles …

Washington - It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word"regulation" can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective:"job-killing." As in nominee-in-waitingMitt Romney, after winning …

Washington - It may not be the economy, stupid. Then again, JamesCarville's famous maxim about the 1992 presidential campaign might wellbe valid in 2012. But it's quite possible that on …

A demonstrator holds a religious statue outside the Supreme Court in Washington, April 25, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)Washington - Justices across the ideological spectrum …

So far a lack of enthusiasm and hope have characterized the campaign. Moderation, not confrontation, is the dominant theme. March 30 marked the official start of the Mexican presidential …

To save the Earth, we must fall in love with her, writes Robert Koehler, taking his inspiration from the work of Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics. Koehler and Eisenstein say that …

On April 17, 2012, as millions of Americans were filing their income tax returns, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its latest study of world military …

Collaboration or cooptation? Expansion or dilution? Mark Engler on what to make of the 99% Spring. Over the past several weeks, a broad coalition of progressive organizations—including National People's …