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Tom Morello Leads the Occupy “Guitarmy” (Video)
An army of guitarists took to the streets of New York City as part of Occupy Wall Street’s May Day resurgence. Led by former Rage Against the Machine guitarist …
Are JPMorgan’s Losses a Canary in a Coal Mine?
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. That sound of shattered glass you’ve been hearing is the iconic portrait of Jamie Dimon …
The Social Consequences of Inequality
Richard Wilkinson is an epidemiologist and a leader in international research of inequality. He is also the co-author of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger with …
At a Military Hospital, Warriors Are Not the Only Wounded
The weather's getting warmer in Afghanistan and the war there is heating up again. That means, as it has meant every year for more than a decade, that the …
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A History of Campaign Advertising
David Schwartz is the chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image and curator of The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008, an online exhibition featuring more than …
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A US Financial Transaction Tax: How Wall Street Can Pay for Its Mess
As we continue to suffer the consequences of the 2008-2009 global financial crash caused by casino capitalism, one idea for bringing some measure of control over speculative financial practices …
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Political Ads: America Discovers Columbus
If you live in Columbus, Ohio, my sympathy. Don’t get me wrong. Columbus is a wonderful town – the state capital, birthplace of the late great humorist James Thurber, …
Between Two Worlds – Life on the Border
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, whose life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a …
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Most Workers Shut Out of Wage Gains in Past 40 Years
Brian Beutler reports in Talking Points Memo that the liberal Economic Policy Institute is coming out soon with a new edition of their annual report, ‘The State of Working America.” A graph …
Remembering Maurice Sendak
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died yesterday at the age of 83. Sendak has been called the Picasso of children’s literature, and godfather to generations of readers. His landmark book, Where the …