Interview

Juan Gonzalez: We begin today’s show in Iraq. On Thursday, the United States military announced a formal end to almost nine years of war in Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon …

Women participate in Slutwalk on the streets of New York City in October, 2011. (Photo: David Shankbone / flickr) Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of …

(Image: Haymarket Books) Mark Karlin: Your last chapter in so many ways embodies what you have covered in TomDispatch, and what is at the core of our …

A new political party has entered the fray as an alternative to Democrats and Republicans ahead of the 2012 elections. On Monday, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson …

For many on the right side of the U.S. political spectrum, the financial meltdown that began in 2008 resulted from a government push to bring the American Dream of …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren spoke with Truthout in Washington, DC, this fall. Lofgren's first commentary for Truthout, "Goodbye …

Supporters of Troy Davis react after learning the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider his execution in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 21, 2011. Davis was executed at 11:08 p.m., after …

(Image: Monthly Review) There are some very small similarities between Occupy and the Tea Party. Whereas Tea Partiers share a very general (albeit misdirected) rage against the …

Since the first US encampment on Wall Street, hundreds of others have emerged outside of banks and city halls across the nation. The Occupy movement has called on millions …

Returning for the first time to Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland, where the eviction of peaceful Occupy Oakland demonstrators on October 25th eventually resulted in his critical injury at …