Op-Ed

When direct democracy actions like ballot initiatives threaten corporate interests, corporate lawyers run to court to prevent citizens from getting the chance to vote.

The truth is that the ruling elite care not for those living in abject destitution.

This is money that is creating demand elsewhere, not in the United States.

In days following the march, people took action to pressure the United Nations (UN) and global leaders to take real community-led action on Climate Change.

That this Bill of Rights shall not limit the type of society that we determine to have in order to reflect the contemporary need for justice, the evolution of …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)President Barack Obama proudly signed the law that repealed the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, freeing lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans (although not trans people) to openly …

To make an exception of yourself is as immoral a proceeding for a nation as it is for an individual.

Remember that history exists, and actions have consequences, and this event is tied to that event is tied to the other event in a tapestry of escalating cascading fallout, …

Europe has surprised many people, myself included, with its resilience.

It is an unconscious perception of the world that causes us to see mass slaughter of some animals but not others as normal, and tells us we should not …