Truthout
Op-Ed
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It Gets Better: The Day I Ran Away From Home
There's no way you can really imagine what it's like...to look back on your period of captivity, and to exhale the breath that you held as a child.
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A Candidate’s Implausible Dream
Paul Ryan said that his views on monetary policy are based on a character's speech in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
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Chris Hedges: Life Is Sacred
Corporations care nothing for democracy, the rule of law, human rights or the sanctity of life.
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The Week of Living Dangerously
William Rivers Pitt: If you happened to wonder why nothing under my name appeared in print during the long debacle that was the Republican National Convention, the reason is …
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The Motion of Heavenly Bodies
Sir Isaac Newton said,
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Your Turn, Mr. President
have reached a phase of the presidential campaign that could be called the Season of Empty Metaphors.
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ALEC Goes After the Center for Media and Democracy
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sent a message to hundreds of legislators and corporations across the country attacking the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the creator of …
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About Face, Bloody Hell
“About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War,” is a book that should be stacked up on a table in every high school cafeteria, next to the vultures. Sorry, …
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Raising the Minimum Wage Is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America
Mark Weisbrot: Contrary to prevailing myths about who would benefit from a proposed increase in the minimum wage, 88 percent of the 28 million workers affected are not teenagers.
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Labor Day and the Election of 2012: It’s Inequality, Stupid
As wealth and income rise to the top, moreover, so does political power.