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Truthout Interviews Featuring James Kilgore on Reversing Mass Incarceration in the US
Ted Asregadoo talks to author and research scholar at the University of Illinois' Center for African Studies James Kilgore.
What’s Driving Hong Kong’s Uprisings?
Hong Kong-based Attorney Robert Lee talks about the economic and political history at the center of ongoing protests.
What’s Behind the Ebola Crises and Are US Americans at Risk?
In an interview with TeleSUR's The Global African, Johns Hopkins Infectious Disease Program co-director Taha E. Taha discusses the roots of the Ebola crisis and what can be done …
Phil Donahue: Whistle-Blowers, Dissenters and Progressives Are the Patriots
Phil Donahue says we are a nation of laws, until we are scared.
After Censorship of History Course, Colorado Students and Teachers Give a Lesson in Civil Disobedience
After a county school board in Colorado proposed to rewrite the district's high school US history curriculum to stop teaching about civil disobedience, students and teachers have responded with …
Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial
A 16-year-old high school sophomore from the Bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at the Rikers jail in New York City after he says he was …
Acute Economic Inequality Underlies “Occupy Central” Protests in Hong Kong
Assistant professor Eli Friedman from Cornell University says working-class and union participation has increased in subsequent occupations.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Sonora River Poisoned by the Mining Industry, and More
In today's On the News segment: The mining industry pollutes the Sonora River and drinking water in Northern Mexico, and more.
Underestimating ISIS: An Indictment of Decades of Failed US Policy in the Middle East
The US underestimated the IS and overestimated the ability of the Iraq military to fend off the militant group IS.
Umbrella Revolution: Hong Kong’s Biggest Protests in Decades Challenge China on Political Freedom
Hong Kong is facing its biggest political unrest in decades as tens of thousands of protesters defy a police crackdown to demand greater freedom from China.