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To cover the war in liberated eastern Libya is to spend a lot of time speedily headed somewhere: fleeing the front line as soon as it's collapsed, moving toward …

Good news, people: America's wages are up—the average worker is making more today than a year ago! How much more, you ask? Get ready to be excited: 58 cents …

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisconsin) budget plan would cut $5.8 trillion over the next decade by cutting programs like Medicare. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York …

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Virginia). (Photo: republicanconference) Last month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor literally said Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we …

Book cover to Chalmers Johnson's “Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945.” (Image: Stanford University Press) In going through my husband’s files, …

When I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother …

(Photo: fling93) A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless …

The House Republican plan for balancing budgets includes deep cuts in federal health care spending. It is honest but not nice. It's not nice at all. …

Washington - One image perfectly captured the absurd, irrational and wholly unnecessary confrontation over whether to shut down the federal government on the basis of differences over a small …

(Photo: alistercoyne; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's …