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“Parody is one of the few weapons that labor people are still allowed to use,” Madison-based labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki recently told me. But members of Wisconsin Gov. Scott …

The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in February—the largest such gain since last April. Over the last three months, the CPI has averaged an annualized rate of …

Washington - For more than two years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the …

The Obama administration notified Texas yesterday that it was officially stopping funds to the Texas Women’s Health Program because of the state’s decision to block abortion providers, including Planned …

Washington - After a public uproar sparked by a Houston mom's online petition, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture on Thursday backed off the federal school lunch program's use of …

A sign warning about security camera surveillance hangs on a post near a construction site in Beijing, March 6, 2012. (Photo: Keith Bedford / The New York Times) …

(Photo: ProgressOhio / Flickr) The number of Americans who say they want more regulation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, outnumber those who want less regulation by a …

We host a debate on Big Labor’s endorsement of President Obama’s re-election between labor reporter Mike Elk and Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180, a …

In today's On the News segment: Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for all NATO troops to be pulled out of rural areas, United Nations will weigh in on American …

Translated Wednesday 14 March 2012, by Henry Crapo (who is a member of Truthout's Board of Advisors) and reviewed by Isabelle Métral. "We are going to create a …