Solutions

Is Charles M. Smith the perfect whistle-blower?

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has given the Department of Defense a possible reprieve from American citizens' war-weary thoughts.

For kids, communities can bring opportunities where none existed before.

What happened in Newtown isn't supposed to happen anywhere.

Here's how some of Truthout's reporters deal with the disheartening side of our work. We'd like to hear how you deal with reading investigations that take an emotional toll.

Imagine what a maverick GOP senator could accomplish if he joined forces with a muckraking journalist to get the facts on the bloated DoD budget.

The foreign influence industry is a perfectly legal way for foreign money to get into US politics - and for violent regimes to get weapons and image makeovers.

Let Congress and the nation set the table with compromise, not gridlock, this Thanksgiving.

Ill-conceived weapons continue to suck taxpayer dollars - the majority of the discretionary portion of the federal budget, in fact.

WIth the close of election season, the Solutions column returns to the business of identifying ways to rein in defense spending.