New Census data reveals nearly 3 million U.S. homes and 13 million apartment units are now owned by LLC, LLP and other corporate vehicles. | Continue reading
Accused of applying "purity tests" this election cycle? Baffled by terms like "health care consumer"? We have just the dictionary for you. | Continue reading
New records uncovered by The Center for Investigative Reporting lay bare the true toll of the multinational's desperate drive for speed. | Continue reading
We are again reaching the point in the business cycle known as “peak debt,” when debts have compounded to the point that their cumulative total cannot | Continue reading
The president of a Pennsylvania school board whose district had warned parents behind on lunch bills that their children could end up in foster care has re | Continue reading
“Don’t be surprised,” said Terence Ray, one of the hosts of the Whitesburg, Ky.-based podcast “The Trillbillies,” “if Mark Zuckerberg starts tr | Continue reading
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.Most of us are familiar with the acronym “FUBAR.” A rece | Continue reading
What follows is a conversation between Institute on New Economic Thinking President Rob Johnson and Paul Jay of The Real News Network. Read a transcript of | Continue reading
Shortly after Truthdig columnist Danny Sjursen left the Army, where he spent 18 years on active duty and rose to the rank of major, he sat down with Editor | Continue reading
Just after dawn on March 16, 1968, a company of U.S. Army infantrymen, led by Capt. Ernest Medina and spearheaded by Lt. William Calley, entered the small | Continue reading
Editor's note: Then NFL player Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat (left) in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was | Continue reading
It may be too late to save the planet, warns Bill McKibben, but there's a reason that doesn't seem to keep up our tech barons up at night. | Continue reading
The onetime standard-bearer for civil aviation has sacrificed a viable business model and basic safety concerns at the altar of greed. | Continue reading
Switching from all-volunteer to mandatory military service could force Americans to reconsider their ever-expanding empire. | Continue reading
There’s a pattern that ranges from Guatemala in 1954, Chile in ’73, Panama in ’89, Venezuela in ’02—clear to the present moment. | Continue reading
The outgoing House speaker is a villain, and no one will miss him. | Continue reading
Author Carmen Segarra sounds off on Goldman Sachs (pictured: Chairman Blankfein), deregulation and how our culture rewards bad behavior. | Continue reading
What follows is a murky story of a political ploy by the two governments to create a phony rationale for ousting Assange from the Ecuadorean embassy in London. | Continue reading
The public radio station's recent report on its sponsor omits how Amazon’s shipping policies negatively affect both the environment and workers. | Continue reading
The media's refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom. | Continue reading
As voters, we need to become literate in the ways of the moneyed class when it comes to elections. | Continue reading
While much of the world faces deepening poverty, a tiny handful of people have increased their wealth by more than $1 trillion. | Continue reading
Their greed will crush society and the ecosystem unless they are driven from power. | Continue reading
Their greed will crush society and the ecosystem unless they are driven from power. | Continue reading
Climate change has set off a "bugpocalypse" across the globe. Activists warn it should be a wake-up call for all of us. | Continue reading
When the history of Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher's confrontation with Sen. Jeff Flake over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is written, it cannot be about a single man changing his mind. | Continue reading
As the FBI undertakes its investigation, another acquaintance accuses the Trump nominee of being untruthful during his Senate testimony. | Continue reading
Gov. Jerry Brown signs several laws affecting women, including the controversial mandate for publicly traded companies based in the state. | Continue reading
If you’re Paul Manafort, Robert Mueller owns you. If you’re Mueller, you’re in the catbird seat. And if you’re Donald Trump, you’re your own worst enemy. | Continue reading
The suspected killer at a video game tournament had been twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities, but authorities say he was able to legally purchase the two handguns he carried at the time of the attack. | Continue reading
If Mueller proves he helped rig the election, it's not enough to remove him from office. His entire term must deemed illegitimate. | Continue reading
Big banks on this side of the Pacific are watching with trepidation, as developments in China’s mobile system could indicate that significant shifts will happen in the U.S. | Continue reading
The Republicans and Democrats are two faces of the same failure. And there will be no real hope of rescue by third parties until the American system of electoral politics is rebuilt from the ground up. | Continue reading
After exhausting all of earth's resources, the superrich are ready to colonize other worlds. | Continue reading
Racial diversity in the hands of the ruling elites—political and corporate—is a tool for preserving white privilege, wealth and power. | Continue reading
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly building a database of journalists and bloggers. Critics fear it's a First Amendment tragedy waiting to happen. | Continue reading
Separating children from their parents, as Trump, Sessions and their myrmidons are doing, is monstrous and has been characteristic of the biggest dictators of the modern era. | Continue reading
Think of it as the all-American version of the human comedy: a great power that eternally knows what the world needs and offers copious advice with a tone deafness that would be humorous, if it weren’t so grim. | Continue reading
Sen. Bernie Sanders, once an independent maverick, has been politically neutered by the Democratic Party establishment and is becoming a parody of himself. | Continue reading
Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality. | Continue reading
The president is carrying out a sustained attack on our democratic institutions. We can't afford to pretend otherwise. | Continue reading
The duopoly thrives because the media-politico establishment has conditioned us to have short-term outrage while disregarding the connective nature of the racket. | Continue reading
The famed sociologist saw what most white intellectuals could not: the savage nature of an American empire intent on suppressing and exploiting people of color in the U.S. and across the world. | Continue reading
Every day the foundations of our institutions decay more, but American society is emotionally unable to grasp the mortal danger that approaches. | Continue reading
This amount of money could solve the entire planet's miseries, but the government blames its mystery spending on a "failure to correct system deficiencies." | Continue reading
Hint: It's all about the banking. | Continue reading