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Washington - Toward the end of the health care battle, a beleaguered Obama staff member sent me an e-mail that ended with the words: "Sisyphus was a sissy compared …

In the US, 30 percent of youth fail high school every year, and the vast majority come from poor communities and populations of color. We must solve this problem. …

On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a historic speech at Riverside Church in New York City, which has become known as "Beyond Vietnam: A Time …

In a place like upstate New York, north of Albany, where April is more generally known as “mud season,” and the wait for “ice-out” on the big lakes takes …

The deteriorating state of American youth may be the most serious challenge the US faces in the 21st century.

A quick look at today's news from Truthout: The Guardian and the Christian Science Monitor report Monday that South Africa's top white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, was killed Saturday …

Mexico City - The 7.2 Mexicali earthquake that struck northern Mexico and rocked swaths of the American southwest Sunday was the region's most powerful in decades, but damage was …

Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. For the last almost three …

In the middle of the worst downturn since the Great Depression, with unemployment projected to remain at elevated levels for most of the next decade, we have the bizarre …

A coordinated attack Monday on the US consulate in Peshawar, left eight dead, including three Pakistan Taliban militants. No Americans were killed in the attack. Lahore, Pakistan - Three …