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The Dow Jones industrial average briefly fell below 10,000 in the opening minutes of trading before bouncing back midday, reported the AP, just days after the major indexes posted …

Washington — On a barely bipartisan 59-to-39 vote, the Senate on Thursday approved the most sweeping overhaul of financial-industry oversight since the New Deal era. Next: negotiations with the …

Dear Truthout Readers, Truthout has been a vital piece of the media landscape for close to a decade, but I feel that we are doing our best work right …

What would happen if we listened closely to the stories in our community, and used them as clues to how to act for change? It's tempting, for instance, to …

After saying last week that it had no authority to tell BP which dispersant to use for the Gulf oil spill, the EPA on Thursday told BP to switch …

I'm always amused by popular references to the allegedly all-powerful American “Left.” The term suggests that progressives today possess the same kind of robust, ideologically driven political apparatus as …

Tokyo, Japan - The ongoing crisis in Greece has focused global attention on sovereign debt, with many eyes inevitably drawn to Japan, the public finances of which — at …

It's been an active year so far in the rhetoric of nuclear disarmament. First, the “nuclear posture statement” of the Obama administration put out in early April. Then the …

Rachel Maddow reviews Rand Paul's stand on the Civil Rights Act.

The Senate passed by 59-39 the most sweeping changes in government regulation of the nation's financial institutions since the Great Depression, including strong new consumer and investor protections and …