Truthout
Op-Ed
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The High Costs of Complexity in Health Care Reform
The ACA does not go nearly far enough in restraining ballooning health care costs or reforming the way we pay those providing health care products and services.
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The Global Crisis of Legitimacy and Liberation of the Empty Self
Half a year into Obama's second term, it has become clear what has been done under his watch. He brought to the world continued and unprosecuted massive banking fraud, …
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Police Can Search Your Phone Without a Warrant
Police officers can't just come into your home and start searching through your belongings without a warrant, but that same protection does not extend to your cellphone, apparently.
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Federal Regulators Finally “Mind the Gap“
Corporations will no doubt flood the public comment period with predictions of doom and gloom should the SEC's ratio disclosure go into effect.
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Give the Sierra Club Credit for Taking on the US Marine Corps
In this moment in which the public will and a bit of nerve in Congress have made refusing to let a president launch a bunch of missiles into a …
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Path to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?
Security lobbyists, the media and the government itself continue to stoke public fears of another attack on ‘the homeland.’
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Can Football Be Saved?
Even if you're not a sports fan, you've probably heard about the proposed $765 million settlement between the National Football League and 4,500 of its former players who filed …
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Meanwhile at the Pentagon, Fundamentalist Christians Protest a Non-Existent War
Weinstein: "The true purpose of these inveterate religious extremists was to lobby the top brass to officially give free rein to the Christian fundamentalist vultures within our United States …
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Fast Food Workers Are Fighting for the Majority of US Employees
The fast food strike is an inspiring grass-roots movement led by some of the nationu2019s most underpaid employees and should be supported by everyone.
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Iran, The Syrian Civil War, the Prevention of Genocide Act, Chemical Weapons, the Fate of the America Republic & the Struggle for Global Peace & Justice
The American republic and worldwide republicanism, not to mention global peace and justice, once again hangs in the balance.