Op-Ed

(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 …

NATO's failure in efforts to promote “regime change” in Libya, after two and a half months of bombing and arms supply to various rebel factions, is now glaring. …

At long last, President Obama seems to have run out of patience with the truculent Republicans who have rejected all of his overtures for a budget deal — just …

While politicians and business press pundits last March-April were proclaiming the jobs crisis was over, the prediction came that “March-April's Job Gains Will Collapse This Summer.” That prediction is …

Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd …