Truthout
Op-Ed
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I’m Black and I Want More “Stuff” and “Things”: An Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly
On election night, as it became increasingly clear that Mitt Romney was going to lose the election to Barack Obama, I watched Fox News host Megyn Kelly ask you, …
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The Deeper Lessons of the U.S. Presidential Election
So for a while the political placards will no longer litter our streets and lawns. The commercials on TV and radio will for awhile be devoid of political commercial …
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Is Everything OK?
William Rivers Pitt: Truthout has not bought into the fantasy that everything is okay now; far from it.
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Vagrancy Laws, Poll Taxes, Financialization and the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Mississippi
Untucked shirts and wrong-colored socks are putting Mississippi's young African-Americans on the road to
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Applebee’s CEO and Millionare Zane Tankel vs. Working Americans
The so-called job creator complained on FOX News about all the money the Obamacare mandate will cost him to provide health care to his workers.
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An Election Protection Agenda for 2016
The must-do list emerging from the 2012 election includes hand-counted paper ballots and automatic voter registration, among other imperatives.
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Factory Farms Are Animal Concentration Camps
Jim Hightower on why the chicken really crossed the road - and the high price of cheap food.
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How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
Social movements must bring the creative energy of protest culture to electoral campaigns.
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Let’s Get to Work
Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and beyond: the national election repudiated religious conservatives …
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The Presidential Election Exposed, Again, the Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges: It's a useless appendage to the corporate state.