Truthout
Op-Ed
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Trans-Pacific Partnership-Related Bill Contains a Medicare Poison Pill
The Medicare cuts in the trade adjustment assistance bill set a dangerous precedent, allowing Congress to treat Medicare like its own personal piggy bank.
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Welcome to the Era of Stop-Go Austerity
The recovery of 2013-2015, which is falsely viewed as a vindication of austerity, is likely to prove self-defeating.
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Writing History Before It Happens: Nine Surefire Future Headlines From a Bizarre World
There's a certain repetition factor in our increasingly bizarre US-dominated world that lends predictability to the future.
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Celebrating Real Heroes Like the One We’ve Just Lost
Stolen at age 7, Kwementyaye Randall was among many Indigenous facing lies and distortions from Australian authorities.
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US “Original Sin” and the 2016 Presidential Election
The legacy of racial inequality continues to infect US public policy.
Hey Chevron, Oil and Democracy Don’t Mix
After Chevron spent more than $3 million to elect Richmond, California, municipal officials, shareholders may call a halt.
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: Presidential Waivers, Child Soldiers and a US-Made Army in Africa
The young, desperately divided nation of South Sudan is something of an American-sponsored creation.
The Disfigured Self: What Hannah Arendt Got Right
This is Arendt's point about totalitarianismu2014it disfigures the self, changes it into something other than what it is under a free regime.
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Send in the Clowns
As the 2016 presidential candidates belatedly get worked up about inequality, they're losing touch with reality.
Toward a Better Food System: Empowering Communities and Regulating Corporations
How we have landed ourselves with a global food system that generates hunger alongside of obesity, and what can we do about it?