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Alan Grayson | Will He Say This?
President Obama is delivering his State of the Union message today. This is the speech that I would like to hear: "My fellow Americans. Two years ago, 69 million …
Eugene Robinson | Meat-Cleaver Budgeteers
Washington - Despite what you might have heard, the coming battle on Capitol Hill is not really about “government spending” in the abstract. It's about two radically different visions …
Rich, but Poorer Than the Richest
It seems that objectively rich people in the United States are feeling poor these days. In an article published online on Jan. 11, Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at …
Why Hillary Clinton Flagged Judicial Reform as “Essential” to Mexico’s Drug War
Mexico City - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed in a visit to Mexico Monday the importance of reforming Mexico’s judicial system, a policy matter that has been overshadowed …
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The Olbermann Era
A quick confession that might not sit well with many Truthout readers: I was, on a personal level, quite ambivalent about the loss of Keith Olbermann's show, “Countdown,” when …
David C. Berliner | Soft-Core Porn and the Crisis of School Leadership
I must state at the start of this essay that I am no prude, no Victorian. In fact I am generally quite tolerant of contemporary mores in the area …
Ukraine’s Assault on a Free Press
In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi — known for its independent investigative style — is under …
Progressive Girl’s Voices at Sundance: My Love for Tiffany Shlain and Her Film “Connected“
Yesterday was the first day at Sundance film festival for us young journalists, and we already had our first interview. Last afternoon we spoke with the lovely Tiffany Shlain, …
Because It’s Time to End the Afghanistan War… (Video)
With a war in its 10th year, it's time to end it. With violence in Afghanistan still worsening a year after the military push into Marjah—the start of what …