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(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) For some people, particularly the young and the old, the local mall or big-box retailer or superstore is an important part of …

Greg Palast. (Photo: Dutton Adult) It’s all my fault, because I’m such a cheap bastard. I was told to rent a white van, something nondescript that painters …

(Image: Prometheus Books) Karl Marx was not a militant on the barricades but a journalist who wrote frequently for the New York Herald Tribune on great issues …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Arizona changed its law after 1886 so that the word person would include nonliving as well as living legal entities: “‘Person’ includes …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although we have much that we might change about our government and business, it’s clear that we also have a great and …

(Image: Metropolitan Books) As a litigator who practiced for more than a decade in federal and state courts across the country, I’ve long been aware of the …

(Image: JR / Truthout) The people have got to know if their president is a crook,” U.S. President Richard Nixon told a national television audience on November …

(Image: Seven Stories Press) Cu Chi district, a short drive from our hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, was the scene of fierce fighting during the …

(Image: JR / Truthout) In researching this book, I ran across an astonishing piece of writing from our nation’s early years. It’s a fitting prologue for this …

(Image: Counterpoint Press) The notion of American exceptionalism is as old as the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, the first analyst to describe the United States’ significant …