Op-Ed

Todd Ashker describes how solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison deprived him of any relationship with his mother.

We constantly fail to acknowledge the atrocities of war , street violence, and human rights abuses that our own government is committing.

The thirteen English colonies, which gained independence and formed a loose confederation of states, lost their freedoms to unrestrained nationalism.

Working with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Truthout offers a series of profiles of prisoners on hunger strike at Pelican Bay.

Hate has become our highest form of patriotism and a form of eroticism.

By offering Edward Snowden asylum, Venezuela President Maduro has invited Americans to live in a new world in which the US government's power is limited; a

Some US pundits blame the Egyptian coup on Morsi's clumsy politics. But secularists' rigid opposition played a role, too.

A prisoner on hunger strike in California shares his story of years spent in isolation.

Austerity has been intellectually discredited in recent months. But conservative spending cuts still dominate policy.

The u2018marketu2019 isnu2019t working for working people. The rich have rigged the rules. We ought to keep trying, of course, to reduce the resulting inequality. But why not, unions …