Truthout
Op-Ed
We’re All a Little Bit “Tree Hugging” by Default
We're all facing environmental degradation and the adverse affects of climate change.
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Videotaping Strip Searches in Jail Is Not Reform
It is troubling that it takes laws and lawsuits to get change that should come with respect for human dignity.
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Booze or Pot? No Question Which Substance Is More Harmful to Health
Why is marijuana a schedule I controlled substance when all the objective evidence yields the conclusion it is far safer than alcohol?
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Why We Need to Prosecute Our Torturers
Just when you thought Republicans couldn't sink any lower, they ask Dick Cheney, the guy who screwed up Iraq, for advice on how to fix Iraq.
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Accidental Hero: Marcuse’s “One-Dimensional Man” at 50
It is now 50 years after “One-Dimensional Man” became an unlikely central text of the '60s New Left. Its message remains ever more urgent.
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Rot From the Sepulchre
How did the “best justice system in the world” allow two black men to spend 30 years behind bars for a rape and murder they did not commit?
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EU Popular Opposition to Israel Stronger Than Ever
The EU is emerging as the world's most significant political battleground for the trajectory of Israel-Palestine.
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Cease-Fires in Which Violations Never Cease: What’s Next for Israel, Hamas and Gaza?
This cease-fire is just the most recent of a series of agreements reached after each of Israel's escalations in its unremitting assault on Gaza.
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Misperceptions About Middle-Class Society
Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe that they live in a middle-class society, even though income is much less equally distributed here than it is in Europe.
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Corporations Screw Everybody
We need to undo the damage done by Reagan, and make US CEOs answerable once again to their companies, their communities, their customers and their workers.