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“People’s Pension” Author: Social Security Cuts Would Hurt Ethnic Families Most
Whatu2019s at stake for aging ethnic boomers and others on the economic edge?
What a Single-Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like (Part 2)
Gerald Friedman: A single-payer plan in Maryland would cover everyone, improve outcomes and make business more competitive.
Bill McKibben: Even Industry-Funded Climate Change Deniers Can’t Ignore Planet’s Warming
Hundreds of new US counties were declared disaster areas on Wednesday amidst the countryu2019s worst drought in decades.
An Interview With Mike Lofgren, Author of “The Party Is Over“
Here's a new book based on an exclusive Truthout commentary that became a national media sensation.
What a Single-Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like (Part 1)
Gerald Friedman: A single-payer plan in Maryland would cover everyone, improve outcomes and make business more competitive.
Spain Is Being Asked to Adopt Socially Burdensome and Economically Ineffective Measures
Spainu2019s problem is a general European problem. In 2010, it was running a high public deficit: at 9.3% of GDP, theyu2019re being asked to undertake the challenging task of …
Robert Pollin: Full Employment Is Possible!
The last time the US saw relatively full employment wasnu2019t in ancient history. It was at the end of the 1990s. We can do it. Pollin lays out how.
LIBOR – Insider Trading on a Massive Scale
Stephany Griffith-Jones: Major banks fixed interest rates to make short term profits and look stronger than they were.
Bill Moyers: Veteran Karl Marlantes on What It’s Like to Go to War
Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes shares how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him.
Michelle Alexander on the Irrational Race Bias of the Criminal Justice and Prison Systems
Michelle Alexander: Yes, I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.