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Here Are the Real Victims of Pakistan’s War on the Taliban
What it means for a civilian population already weary from years of war is homeless, hunger and sickness.
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American CEOs: In a Class All by Themselves
Workers in the United States don't make double what workers make in Japan or Switzerland. Why should US CEOs routinely make double - and often much more - than …
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What Is This Country About Anymore?
When Congress cut off long-term unemployment aid, it left more than 3 million people in the lurch.
What the Court’s Harris v. Quinn Union Decision Means
The anti-union plaintiffs argued that the First Amendment means that people are free to choose who to associate themselves with.
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Homeland Security Goes to School
The relationship between war, national security, and public schooling demands more critical and ethnographic attention.
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A Fracking Fortune Gets Political
After Farris and Dan Wilks cashed in their Texas-based gas company a few years ago for more than $3 billion, they became benefactors of religious right, tea party extremists.
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Koch-Tied Youth Group Weighs in on Senate Races
Generation Opportunity (Gen Opp) has shifted its focus from the horrors of affordable health care to an old fashioned bashing of “tax and spend” Democrats.
Truthout Interviews Bill Ayers on the Erosion of Teacher Tenure
Bill Ayers in conversation with Ted Asregadoo about the movement to abolish teacher tenure and what that means for public education.
Sole’s New Album “Death Drive” Takes Shots at Alienation, Capitalism and Liberals
Tim “Sole” Holland's new album “Death Drive” weaves through self-reflection, philosophy and existentialism with an anarchist perspective.
Newspaper Comment Sections Become Cordoned-Off Hate Crime Scenes
The unexpected new locations for hate crime scenes in the 21st century appear to be the comments sections of the nation's leading newspapers, where calls to violence have become …