Truthout
Op-Ed
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Are Killers Still in Charge of Our Health Care?
No more Americans should die because of delayed treatments and denied doctors' visits all done in the name of increased profits.
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How Did We Get Here? Reflections on the 2014 Midterms
Democrats are paying heavily for their political failures - and for ditching the working stiff.
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Anxieties Over Interest Rates
As usual, my inbox is full of speculations about when the Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates in the United States.
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The Poor Suffer From Hunger – Not the Munchies
Drug-testing for food stamps wastes taxpayer money and stigmatizes economic hardship.
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Want to See How Governments Are Making Real Progress? Look to the Cities Tackling Our Biggest Problems
New energy is transforming our cities into hotbeds of democracy and progressive innovation.
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Building a Racially Just Society: Psychological Insights
Michael Brown's tragic death is a salient reminder that the United States is still far from being a racially just and equitable society.
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The Moral Trauma of “21st Century Warriors“
US drone operators suffer post-traumatic stress disorder to significant degrees as a result of their physical immunity from physical danger.
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AP Reports That 99.8 Percent of Social Security Disability Payments Were Proper
The news service devoted a major article to reporting that $2 billion in benefit payments over the last seven years appear to have been given to people who did …
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Forbes Writer Smears Snowden, Misses the Boat: The NSA’s Programs Aren’t About Stopping Terrorism
Paranoid crank? Has Mr. Tamny ever worked as a technical specialist for US intelligence?
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On Modernizing the US Nuclear Arsenal
The United States should fulfill its legal obligations under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.