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(Image: Joel Pett, Carto­onArt­s Inter­natio­nal / The New York Times­ Synd­icate)In general, I'm a numbers and concepts guy, not a feelings guy. When I go after someone like Paul …

As we come up on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration is poised to sign a US-Afghan strategic partnership agreement that could …

Noam Chomsky has seen a lot of social movements. He cut his teeth on the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He participated in the …

Paul Buhle and Gary Dumm created this comic for high school students in New York City in connection with a New York University program around the fiftieth anniversary of …

“Gas Rush” is the place to find original insight and analysis on one of the most heated environmental debates in America. As fracking spreads across the country, Truthout chronicles …

In today's On the News segment: More Americans believe in ghosts than believe the Supreme Court was right in the Citizens United ruling, 76 people were arrested for demonstrating …

Washington - It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric that the word"regulation" can never appear unadorned by the essential adjective:"job-killing." As in nominee-in-waitingMitt Romney, after winning …

Washington - It may not be the economy, stupid. Then again, JamesCarville's famous maxim about the 1992 presidential campaign might wellbe valid in 2012. But it's quite possible that on …

Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Holden. (Photo: National Milk Producers Federation) In one of the most watched primary elections tonight, incumbent Democratic Congressman Tim Holden (D-PA) lost to attorney Matt Cartwright. …

A demonstrator holds a religious statue outside the Supreme Court in Washington, April 25, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)Washington - Justices across the ideological spectrum …