Environment

In 1942, Virginia Young, right, a supervisor at an air base in Texas, secured housing for new workers like Ethel Mann. (Photo: Howard R. Hollem / Library of Congress) …

A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, …

(Image: LP / Truthout) On August 5, 2002, President George Bush declared, “We're fighting ... to secure freedom in the homeland.” Strikingly, he did not use the …

The media have portrayed Governor Rick Perry’s description of Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme” at a recent Iowa campaign event as the latest extreme statement of an unconventionally …

It is now day 11 of the protests in Washington, DC, against the Keystone XL pipeline, and according to Tar Sands Action, 595 people have been arrested so far …

In the wake of Hurricane Irene, which caused billions of dollars in damages up and down the U.S.’s eastern seaboard, House Republicans are callously claiming that any aid to …

Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation’s history, and analysts said that much of the damage might not be …

Read Truthout's Progressive Pick of the Week: Bill McKibben's “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.”

We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political …

TRANSCRIPT Thom Hartmann here – on the news…