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Robert Lipsyte | Root,Root, Root for the Owners...: Here in the first post-American century, sports fans, it’s a brand-new ballgame — …

Stupid People With Guns
Angry, stupid and armed can turn out to be a pretty ridiculous combination.

Robert Reich | Break Up the Banks
A fight is brewing in Washington – or, at the least, it ought to be brewing – over whether to put limits on the size of financial entities in …

William Astore | Baseball Has Lost Some of Its Soul
Baseball is my favorite sport. I grew up with the Boston Red Sox and endured forty years of heartrending frustration until my team finally broke the Curse of the …

E.J. Dionne Jr. | Barack Obama, Meet Sisyphus
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 …

Fighting School Failure Isn’t Rocket Science
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. …

Silence Is Betrayal
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 …

False Spring
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 …

A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues
The deteriorating state of American youth may be the most serious challenge the US faces in the 21st century.

Truthout | News in Brief
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 …