Truthout
Op-Ed
Largest Air Pollution Rally in US History Goes Down on Utah’s Capitol Hill
People are literally dropping over dead in the streets along the Wasatch Front from Utah's absolutely debilitating and deadly air pollution crisis.
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How a Famous 90-Year-Old Doctor Survived Hospitalization, but You Probably Won’t
Relman's account of his hospitalizations misses the haloing effect of his professional visibility and prominence.
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Science and Liberation: Science as Human Curiosity, as Authority and as Business
For a stabilized atmosphere, we are going to have to defeat some very powerful people and institutions in the process of liberating ourselves - and science - from the …
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The Surveillance Blitz
Our privacy is getting hit from two sides - from corporations as well as the government.
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A Fast Track to Eroding Our Rights
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would have disastrous implications for US consumers.
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Minnesota Law Substitutes Military Test for Graduation Requirement
In Minnesota, radical changes to graduation testing requirements make it easier for high school students' personal information to be sent to military recruiters without parental consent.
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Calvin and Jobs: Why the Right Hates (but Still Needs) Social Welfare
Calvinism's embrace of wealth as a sign of divine election lives on in the red state/blue state religious and social welfare divides.
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Political Corruption and Capitalism
Corruption is endemic to the capitalist system and has not been successfully regulated away. Perhaps a system change is warranted, suggests Richard D Wolff.
The Shriveling State of the Union
To hear his fifth State of Union address, an uninformed listener might think America's problems are limited and manageable.
Open Letter to WV Inmates: Beware of Private Prisons Before Signing Away Your Rights
The prisoners themselves would play a critical role in making this scheme by having to sign away their right to be incarcerated and rehabilitated within the state of West …