Truthout
Inequality
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Nine Economic Facts That Will Make Your Head Spin
Half the population of the US has slipped into poverty or is barely making enough to get by.
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The Queer Case Against Prisons
Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.
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Charging Through the Archway of History: Immigrants and African-Americans Unite to Transform the Face of Labor and the Power of Community
Immigrant energy is contributing to a revival of progressive American political culture.
A Ladydrawers History of Women’s Rights: Part II
Ladydrawers continues to explore the history (and future!) of women's rights in the US.
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Protesters Confront CEO and “Fix the Debt” Leader over Corporate Tax Breaks
Protesters from a new grassroots
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I Am Not a Camel … but I Do Have Epilepsy
A true global epilepsy campaign must start with each of us making our worlds more friendly to disclosure.
Breaking the Psychological Chains of Slavery
Dr. Joy DeGruy explores African-American history, cultural behavior and the trauma of slavery and racism's impacts on African-Americans and society as a whole.
Move to National Electronic Health Records Potentially Risky for LGBT Patients
Digitized health records may be a step forward for improving overall health care, but how will they safely and competently account for the medically and socially marginalized LGBT community?
Stateless in the Age of Islamophobia
The strange saga of Tareq Abufayyad's foiled attempt to join his family of US citizens in California reveals how real people's lives can be ruined by aggressive pre-emptive prosecution, …
Class Is a Five-Letter Dirty Word: The Lack of Class Consciousness in an Era of Record Inequality
The days of Horatio Alger stories promising rags to riches are over - if they ever existed to begin with.