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For months, foreign policy circles in DC have been abuzz with a new acronym for a new supposed threat: a looming VIRUS (Venezuela, Iran, and Russia). According to this …

Truthout's new “Solutions: Making Government Work” editor, Dina Rasor. Tomorrow, Truthout will debut my new column: “Solutions: Making Government Work.” This weekly column will be a platform …

Washington - Maybe I'm getting carried away because it is the season to believe in miracles, but the tax-cut deal just might turn out to be a blessing in …

In assessing what went wrong with the U.S. political process over the past few decades, it’s easy to see the broad outlines of the right-wing Republican ascendancy and the …

How would you spend $700 billion? Congress has to decide this month. One simple solution would be for Congress to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for households with incomes …

America’s heroes? Not so much. Not anymore. Not when they’re dead, anyway.

For more than twenty years, the people of Porto Alegre, Brazil have been directly determining how the city spends it's money. The process is called participatory budgeting and it …

The movement of ideas through the international system is a mysterious thing. Consider, for example, the circuitous journey of the "Global Feed-in Tariff": this is the idea of guaranteeing …

The legal battle over gay marriage in California continued today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, prompting the next chapter in what could be the …

Last week, I kicked President Obama squarely in the teeth for his decision to abdicate the economic argument to the GOP by wasting everyone's time with a freeze of …