Foot Cream Kills HIV

Ciclopirox, an antifungal lotion, has been found to defeat the virus in cell cultures, but it has yet to be tested on humans; Wall Street is stealing money from public workers’ pensions; meanwhile, the IOC has said it is “fully satisfied” that Russia’s anti-gay laws aren’t in violation of the Olympic charter. These discoveries and more below.

On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that have found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies.

Can a foot cream really do battle with HIV? A study has found that the antifungal drug Ciclopirox kills HIV in cell cultures — and the virus doesn’t bounce back when the drug is stopped.

Looting the Pension Funds All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers.

How School Privatization Hawks Teach For America Promote Israel Teach For America (TFA) is best known for dispatching hundreds of idealistic college graduates to work in inner cities across the United States each year, but it also sends selected members on free, religious-themed tours of Israel.

In Egypt, An Anti-Brotherhood Media Crackdown The current censorship exceeds the crackdown of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

The Newsonomics of Selling More Stuff Sure, you can make more money by selling your products to more people.

Nonprofit Journalism Sites Are Proving to Be Healthy But Slow to Scale A recent Pew Research Center/Knight Foundation roundtable conference on the future of nonprofit journalism had the feeling of an annual physical.

A Corporate Coup of a Different Order: The Growing Resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Transparency was supposed to be a White House priority from the very start.

They Pretend to Think, We Pretend to Listen Try to conjure up the dullest, most vapid intellectual experience you can possibly imagine.

Attacking Net Neutrality Once Again Last week, Verizon, the telephone giant, went to court to accuse the Federal Communications Commission of “overstepping its authority” and reverse the authority’s over-step.

People Want Full Medicare for All Freshman Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who somehow got through Princeton and Harvard Law School, is the best news the defaulting Democratic Party has had in years.

IOC ‘Fully Satisfied’ Anti-Gay Russia Law Does Not Violate Olympic Charter A member of the International Olympic Committee who is charged with overseeing preparations for the upcoming 2014 Winter Games on Thursday said the IOC is “fully satisfied” that Russia’s gay propaganda to minors ban does not violate the Olympic charter.

‘America’ Apologizes for Omission in Francis Interview In its historic 12,000-word interview with Pope Francis released last week, America magazine “inadvertently” omitted a sentence from the pope’s comments about the role of women in the church, the magazine’s editor-in-chief said.

Status of the Resistance Movement: Growing, Deepening, Succeeding So much has been accomplished by Occupy and other social justice movements in the past two years that it is incredible the corporate media and their pundits do not report on what is happening around them.

In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps into Smart Watches The age of wearable computing is upon us.