A California man sentenced to 25 years to life was released Monday because a judge ruled his sentence under a three-strikes law was too harsh for his crime – …
No other American city values music the way New Orleans does. Heck, one of its airports is named after legendary musician Louis Armstrong! Music is not something that is …
Tonight, it's been announced, the last U.S. “combat troops” have left Iraq, some 7 years, 4 months and 29 days after they were sent their for specious and deadly …
Washington - Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an …
I find hope in the fact that millions of people the world over are seeing through the moral and practical fallacies underlying the Wall Street economy and—by contributing to …
Social Security turned 75 last week (along with unemployment insurance). President Obama celebrated the program’s birthday by vowing to fight against privatizing it, an idea that was supposed to …
While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos, met in Santa Marta, Colombia, last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce …
Nothing tests a president like standing up against a wave of fear and prejudice, even at potentially great cost to his own party and prospects. That is what Lyndon …
Check out what people are saying about Truthout! We're telling the stories that no one else is telling - and shaking up the power structures that impede democracy. We …
WASHINGTON — In June, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Canadian man who contends that U.S. authorities mistook him for an al Qaida operative in …