Part of the Series The Public Intellectual Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. My dear friend, Bill Moyers, died yesterday. He was the finest interviewer I’ve ever worked with, probing, fearless, and profoundly attuned to both the fragility and the...
    If the rich are so powerful, if they supposedly manipulate public policy for their benefit, why are their taxes so high?     Several years ago at a party, I met a woman who loudly railed against “the rich” whom she insisted “paid no taxes.”     ...
Aleem Maqbool Religion editor BBC Over 12 profoundly consequential years for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis steered it into uncharted territory and did so in ways that will resonate long into the future. The pontiff worked to soften the face of the Catholic Church for many, loosened the Vatican’s grip on power and intervened in...
Sophie is beginning to remember a formative holiday she took as a child. Read full article at source...
The new book Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful by The New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich chronicles an ongoing campaign by the wealthy and powerful to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which in 1964 established bedrock...