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Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

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Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist

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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Warming Climate Endangers U.K. Farming
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Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist
By Susan Zakin

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria
By Juan Cole

Genocide Conviction of Efraín Ríos Montt Overturned

Sweden Framing Assange, British Spy Messages Said to Say

DOJ Allegedly Spied on Fox News Correspondent, the FBI Investigates Bachmann, and More

Gillibrand’s Student Loan Proposal Follows Warren’s Lead

College: A Lesson in Inequality

Obama Unscathed by Scandals, Mayor Denies Smoking Crack, and More

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table

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In the name of providing valuable “work experience” to young people, British supermarkets and department stores—one of which makes the equivalent of more than 5½ billion U.S. dollars annually—are holding job seekers’ unemployment benefits hostage to squeeze them of weeks of free labor without any promise of a permanent position.

Posted on Nov 17, 2011 READ MORE | 7 COMMENTS

Truthdig/Zuade Kaufman

Gore Vidal Sounds Off on Solar Power Caper

Note to public utility companies: Do not cross Gore Vidal. What began as a personal nuisance—the shutdown of his newly installed home solar power system by Los Angeles’ water and power provider—has become emblematic of a bigger issue (or two) for the venerable writer, who states his position in no uncertain terms in this interview.

Posted on Jul 6, 2007 READ MORE | 72 COMMENTS

Harnessing the Sun Leaves Vidal in the Dark

By Kasia Anderson —

Powering his home with solar energy sounded like an enlightened idea to Gore Vidal, but after several exasperating rounds of “routine” inspections and unexpected blackouts, it seems that even Southern California’s most abundant natural resource can be caught up in red tape.