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While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – …

Truthout's new “Solutions: Making Government Work” editor, Dina Rasor. Tomorrow, Truthout will debut my new column: “Solutions: Making Government Work.” This weekly column will be a platform …

Americans should take a page from activists throughout the rest of the world if they're seriously interested in resisting the massive budget cuts afflicting this country. Effective social change …

What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only?

After years of neglect by politicians and the media, education is now a public issue. The reasons are straightforward: in this depressed economy, credentials seem to have lost their …

“I have not become her Majesty's first minister to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire.” It was hard not to remember this proud declaration of Winston Churchill, …

(Photo: Alvaro Canivell / Flickr; Edited: Lance Page / Truthout)Editor's Note: From the beginning of our original organizing effort, Truthout's union representative, Shannon Duffy, has supported Truthout staff throughout …

What’s the point of constantly using our superb military if doing so doesn’t actually work?

The state has already understood a fact that the Left has struggled to accept: misogynists make great informants.

The reduction of politics today to the simple matter of ensuring that blowhards can utter stupid things is truly pervasive.