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If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose …

Why do the Republicans in Congress hate unborn babies? Yeah, I know they profess to love the unborn. They even consider them to be “persons” from the …

(Image: Beacon Press) In 1947, after reading a newspaper article about the crash of a plane carrying a group of Mexican contract workers back to the border, …

Deb Richter resolved to fix the health care system almost as soon as she began practicing medicine more than two decades ago in inner-city Buffalo. “I was very naive, …

Landing signal officers guide a jet onto the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the North Arabian Sea, January 4, 2012. Iran's military sharpened its tone toward the …

Former Gov. Mitt Romney giving an interview at a supporters rally in Paradise Valley, Arizona. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Of all the investments made by the super-wealthy partners …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed …

Beirut, Lebanon — The United States closed its embassy in Syria on Monday and withdrew all staff members amid escalating mayhem in what American officials called the Syrian government’s …

And now, a word about a good American being demonized, despite being long dead. Saul Alinsky is not around to defend himself, but that hasn’t kept Newt Gingrich from …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Like a number of people I have spoken to, Kate McNeely of New York City gave money to Planned Parenthood and sent …