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The light bulb: A universal symbol that inspires ingenuity. Would we say the same about federal regulations? No, they’re job-killers! They’re too costly! Too burdensome! All too …

(Image: JR / Truthout) Having looked at federal government contracting for 30 years, I have heard over and over again that government employees make too much money …

Given what I've been writing for the past few years about upward mobility and the state of “the American Dream,” it doesn't come as a surprise to me that …

September 11, 2001 was my friend Diana’s 30th birthday. I planned on meeting her at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station after work. Instead I walked across the …

While there are many similarities between our time and the Great Depression, there is a crucial difference: In the late 1930s, the United States produced over one-third of the …

(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Miguel Vieira, Expert Infantry) By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy ... Yet, the …

I don’t believe that money is speech, but I’ve repeatedly seen that money motivates dishonest speech, much of it uttered by paid “experts.” This money-motivated dishonesty is a recurring …

In this highly polarized country, one idea about fixing America's economic woes reverberates across ideological, partisan, geographic and class lines: “Let's make things in America again.” And …

(Image: JR / Truthout) According to an August 17 article in The Guardian UK, lawyers representing Omar Awadh Omar, a Kenyan used car salesman who was kidnapped …

In recent weeks Egypt's interim military rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), have stepped up attacks on civil society leaders and pro-democracy activists, accusing them of …