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There is a myth in wide circulation that the superiority of free trade is simply a settled question on which all serious economists agree. The flip side of this …

One percent of US households received 23.5 percent of the nation's income in 2007. I think this is blatantly excessive and unfair. Their contribution to the nation's prosperity was …

One interesting nugget found in newly released CIA documents related to the destruction of 92 torture tapes concerns the unreported existence of psychologist's notes as a standard part of …

Goldman Sachs is the Blackwater of finance, the latest in a long line of companies you love to hate, like AIG and the Dallas Cowboys. Or, as Rolling …

In 2005, filmmaker and truthout reporter Chris Hume took the nation's pulse. He traveled to the forgotten corners of America, and let the people speak. It was a disturbing, …

File it under one of those “Duh” statements.

Sometime between now and Memorial Day, the House is expected to consider $33 billion more for war in Afghanistan. This “war supplemental” is largely intended to plug the hole …

With a divisive new law in Arizona providing the kindling, the national debate over immigration has reignited, as Democrats and Republicans in Congress appeal to their political bases ahead …

New Orleans' black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city's police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause. …

Haitian women have been increasingly vocal and active in social, political and economic issues since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. Though it has not come easily, …