“So,” says the cashier at 7-Eleven, squinting at my three-year-old child K.’s “A Is for Abolition” shirt as they wait patiently in…

Fourteen values-aligned organizations have formed the Movement Media Alliance, a new coalition of social justice-driven journalism platforms aimed at sharing resources and…

Over the past year, organizers across the country have been working nonstop to free people from jails and prisons — and yet, of…

In sitting down to the impossible task of memorializing William Rivers Pitt, Truthout’s illustrious and brilliant lead columnist whose work I edited for 15…

We are incarcerating people for being poor, at great cost to actual human lives

How to Lock Down Your Neighborhood, Your Country, and You

A conversation with Maya Schenwar

After a news conference at the White House, President Barack Obama (R) and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki (L) walk away…

As US combat troops retreated from Iraqi urban centers on Tuesday, signs of an incomplete withdrawal abounded. Some soldiers remained in cities,…

(May 22) — The Senate approved $91 billion in funding for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan yesterday, with all senators…