Op-Ed

(Photo: meggesje) Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly …

Naomi Klein was asked today about what additional case studies she would add to future editions of her 2007 "Shock Doctrine". Klein's answer: Greece and Wisconsin. Fair …

Washington - The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation's debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, …

Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up …

(Photo: A6U571N) There’s an old adage that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. That seems to be the unofficial motto of the …

Demonstrators on the American boat, "The Audacity of Hope" at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. (Photo: Nadia Shira Cohen / The New York Times) …

If you happen to be a Palestinian government employee, chances are you will receive only half your usual salary this month. The other half will only be available when …

(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Bruce Irving, Paul Bratcher) Let's expose the structure of violence that keeps the world economy running. With an entire planet …

(Photo: D'Arcy Norman / Flickr) At a dinner honoring Mark Hopkins, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872, President James A. Garfield said, “The ideal college …

The easiest way to explain Gallup's discovery that millions of Americans are eating fewer fruits and vegetables than they ate last year is to simply crack a snarky joke …