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Deb Richter resolved to fix the health care system almost as soon as she began practicing medicine more than two decades ago in inner-city Buffalo. “I was very naive, …

Landing signal officers guide a jet onto the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the North Arabian Sea, January 4, 2012. Iran's military sharpened its tone toward the …

Former Gov. Mitt Romney giving an interview at a supporters rally in Paradise Valley, Arizona. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Of all the investments made by the super-wealthy partners …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) North Carolina State Senator Eric Mansfield was born in 1964, a year before the passage of the Voting Rights Act, which guaranteed …

Beirut, Lebanon — The United States closed its embassy in Syria on Monday and withdrew all staff members amid escalating mayhem in what American officials called the Syrian government’s …

And now, a word about a good American being demonized, despite being long dead. Saul Alinsky is not around to defend himself, but that hasn’t kept Newt Gingrich from …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Like a number of people I have spoken to, Kate McNeely of New York City gave money to Planned Parenthood and sent …

(Photo: Zol87) It's budget time, again. This means that the deficit hawks will be out in force warning us about the devastating debt burden that we are …

Not content to let Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and Ohio's John Kasich get all the fame (and recall elections, and ballot referenda) for their attempts to curtail union workers' …

In the wake of Occupy Oakland’s violent confrontation with police, many people are writing about non-violence and Occupy but missing the point. Occupy has been very successful in awakening …