Truthout
Op-Ed
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The Debate: Independence or Partisanship
The relationship between the Democratic Party and people working for change may result in getting the progressive agenda onto the political agenda.
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How a 12-Year-Old Homeless Girl Helped More Than 400 Children Find Safer Shelter
After more than a decade of repeated citations for deplorable conditions at New York City homeless shelters, more than 400 children and their families are being moved from the …
Stuck in the Bluff: The Controversy of Needle Exchange Programs
With hundreds of programs across the US and throughout the world, some states still view distributing needles as illegal.
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A Transparent Shame: Why Isn’t This Watergate II?
A select Senate committee is charged with overseeing CIA skullduggery to insure, among other things, that it stays within the stretched confines of the Constitution. The CIA …
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The Last Link Between America’s Plutocratic Past and Present Has Left Us
Bunny Mellon died recently at 103 and was called the “last standing American aristocrat.” Few Americans today, thanks to widening inequality will enjoy the longevity she did.
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On Climate Impasse: Appetite and Substitutes
Subhankar Banerjee makes the connection between climate change and inaction on it, and other US social problems.
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It’s Time To Put America First
It's time for our elected representatives to start following the principles laid out in our Constitution and help everyday Americans struggling to make ends meet.
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Selling a Lemon
President Obama sounds for all the world like a used car salesman trying to peddle a lemon, and that will not happen on our watch.
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A Book That Needed To Be Written
What we need, I have often thought, is a companion book for students in Economics 101, one that points out the problems with the standard material that is covered …
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There Is a Deeper Wave Than This
A wave of action is coming on April 4, the date they killed MLK, the date Cindy Sheehan lost her son, the date cherry blossoms and resisters to fascism …