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On the News With Thom Hartmann: To Switch to Green Energy, We’ll Have to Embrace New Ideas, and More
To make the switch to green energy, our nation will have to embrace new ideas and technology. Thankfully, people like Julie and Scott Brusaw have been thinking green for …
Truthout Interviews Ayanna Banks Harris on Stand Your Ground Laws and Reproductive Justice
A woman tries to defend herself from being attacked by her estranged husband and fires a warning shot from a gun to keep him away.
The 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education in the Shadow of “School Choice”
Glen Ford: The corporate education reform movement has exacerbated inequities in public schools in the name of civil rights.
Walmart and Contractor Settle $21 Million Wage Theft Suit, Days After Obama Praises Penny-Pinching Retailer
Just days after President Obama praised Walmart's business practices in a speech at one of its California stores, more than 1,800 warehouse workers in the state have settled a …
India Elects Hard-Right Hindu Nationalist as New Indian Prime Minister Backed by Corporate Interests
Early results from the largest election in the world show India's opposition leader Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory to become the country's new prime minister.
“The Stuff I Saw Really Began to Disturb Me”: How the US Drone War Pushed Snowden to Leak NSA Docs
Greenwald describes the inside story of the man behind the NSA leaks.
The Cops Killed Her Son; That Did Not Stop Her
Juanita Young talks about the death of her son, Malcolm Ferguson, a 23-year old man murdered by NYPD officer Louis Rivera.
Why Democrats Are Paying Attention to Piketty’s Book on Inequality
The increasing popularity of French economist Thomas Piketty's book points to how Democrats hope to make inequality a political issue in November elections.
The National Restaurant Association Spends Big to Keep Wages Low
A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed to clear the 60 vote hurdle necessary for passage, …
“Collect It All”: Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage and Spying on UN
Nearly a year after he first met Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald continues to unveil new secrets about the National Security Agency and the surveillance state.