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(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Sometimes history and circumstances offer us solutions to centuries-old problems and tensions within our long-lasting government. Even though we feel like a …

For almost two years, we’ve been hearing a new battle cry in the war against government spending: unless the United States slashes deficits we will become Greece, Europe’s poster …

On January 23rd, the Obama administration charged former CIA officer John Kiriakou under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information to journalists about the waterboarding of al-Qaeda suspects. His …

Four years into a period of deep recession and persistent economic crisis, only now has the p-word—poverty—finally surfaced. The Census Bureau’s September 13 announcement that the U.S. poverty rate …

(Photo: Melissa Gira Grant) It's not a shocking sight, but given what we now know about the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure, it should be. …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Nearly 90 percent of soldiers wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - some 35,000 - survived battle injuries, thanks to …

January 28 was not supposed to turn out the way it did. After Occupy Oakland failed to occupy its first two targeted buildings and had a short-lived street battle …

(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: timtom.ch, _Cape Town Craig) William Jefferson Clinton, aka “Slick Willy,” hungered for the White House. But in the early months of 1992, …

There is more at work in the attack on ethnic studies than the rise of Tea Party politics and specific acts of censorship.

With relations between Pakistan’s civilian government and military incredibly tense, speculation is ripe in the local and international media that the threat of a military takeover looms large. The …