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(Image: Truthout) Last year, Truthout started this new “Solutions: Making Government Work” column to give me a platform to explore different areas of government and how we …

Watching top U.S. intelligence officials present the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” before the Senate Intelligence Committee, I found myself wondering if they would depart from the key (if politically …

Newly disclosed details of the millions of dollars flowing into political groups are highlighting not just the scale of donations from corporation and unions but also the secrecy surrounding …

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange talks to demonstrators while leaving a court appearance for a verdict on an extradition request in London, February 24, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The …

Wow, January's gone already — time really flies when you're having Republican presidential primaries! And what better time than Groundhog Day to poke into that warren of feral Republican …

Truthout Columnist William Rivers Pitt. (Photo: Michael Nashawaty) A bottle of whiskey, a shot glass, and an article to write. I'm not going to lie …

This weekend’s Moyers & Company asks the question: How do conservatives and liberals see the world? There's more to the answer than meets the eye. Our …

Protesters hold black posters to symbolize censorship outside the offices of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), who co-sponsored anti-piracy legislation, in New York, on January 18, 2012. The physical …

(Image: Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Most Americans don't realize that the idea that “corporations are people” and “money is speech” are concepts that were never, ever considered or promoted …