Progressive Picks

Ann Jones, author of “They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars” talks with Truthout about the high price American soldiers are paying in the country's post-9/11 …

In an excerpt from her book, ‘Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%,’ author Kari Lydersen describes how mental health advocates occupied and protested the closing …

Will Rahm Emanel's effort to establish a privatized neoliberal outpost in Chicago succeed? Not if the ongoing uprising brushfires turn from kindling wood into a contemporary Chicago fire of …

Author Nathan Schneider traces the origins of Occupy Wall Street and identifies many of those who were instrumental in the genesis of the movement.

Nathan Schneider, author of the just-published ‘Thank You Anarchy, Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse’ tells Truthout he has been changed irrevocably by the movement, of which Zuccotti Park was …

Truthout talks with author Belen Fernandez about Monsanto, the corporate mainstream media under-reporting stories such as the suicide epidemic in India and buffoonish commentary on GMOs by the likes …

Belen Fernandez's Project Censored 2014 winning article exposes the myriad ways Monsanto destroys lives rather than ‘improves’ them, as it boasts.

Director Amy Berg's “West of Memphis” is a searing indictment of prosecution and police misconduct in the conviction of three poor white teenagers for the barbarous 1993 murders of …

Tim DeChristopher speaks with Truthout's Mark Karlin about the power of activism and the injustices of his trial.

Indigenous Mexicans are being pushed out of their country by global corporate forces, says David Bacon, in