A man looks for food and salvageable items of use in a massive dumping ground called Troutie, just outside Cite Soleil, in Port au Prince, Haiti, April 16,…
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(Photo: Bridgette Blair / Public Citizen; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you…
A young girl carries an infant in the Bamiyan province of Afghanistan. (Photo: OSProductions / Flickr) Recent polls suggest that while a majority of US people…
After my parents got back from a weeklong vacation in Florida, funded in part by the pensions they receive as retired Wisconsin public educators, they went to Madison…
For-profit colleges are expanding enrollments at a rapid pace, but it is questionable whether these revenue-seeking universities give adequate consideration to students’ welfare, retention/graduation rates, and overall economic…
(Photo: Mykl Roventine / Flickr) “Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.” Given the level of wackiness that seems to have afflicted this…
Polls indicate that many Republican voters still believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) …
On January 11, 2011, Kuwaiti citizen Mohammad Ghazzai al-Mutairi was reportedly beaten and tortured to death by members of the Kuwaiti police force (part of Kuwait's Ministry of…
Editor’s Note: the author’s book The Health Economy was introduced to Culture Change readers on Nov. 17, 2010, but it is now in a new e-book edition. The…
The “Celtic Tiger” — the Irish economy — has clawed its way back from near extinction, according to the Heritage Foundation. The irony is that the things that…