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  • William Rivers Pitt | "WTF Bombs?": Taking Back the Boston Marathon

    By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed

    Remembering the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Copley Square of Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo: <a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Remembering_the_victims_of_the_Marathon_Bombing-Copley_Square.jpg" target="_blank"> Ingfbruno / Wikimedia Commons</a>)Remembering the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Copley Square of Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo: Ingfbruno / Wikimedia Commons)

    The first hint that something had gone terribly wrong came via a text message on my phone. My friend David, an endurance runner with several other marathons under his belt, was running his first Boston Marathon, and it was a very big deal, because he is a Boston boy born and bred, and had come home to do this incredible thing we had grown up watching and cheering together.

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  • Sixteen for '16 - Number 8: Workplace Democracy

    Sixteen for '16 - Number 8: Workplace Democracy

    By Salvatore Babones, Truthout | Op-Ed

    There are many possible models for workplace democracy, but some form of workplace democracy is a progressive must-have for 2016. Signing up for a union should be as easy as open enrollment for health and pension plans. Every year or two, all workers in all workplaces - in all states - should be given the opportunity to vote for representation. And if workers vote for representation, they should be free to take all reasonable actions that they perceive to be in their own interests. A free economy in a free society requires free workers.

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  • Celebrating Resistance on the Anniversary of South Africa's First Democratic Vote

    Celebrating Resistance on the Anniversary of South Africa's First Democratic Vote

    By John Pilger, Truthout | Op-Ed

    On my wall in London is my favorite photograph from South Africa. Always thrilling to behold, it is Paul Weinberg's image of a lone woman standing between two armored vehicles, the infamous "hippos," as they rolled into Soweto. Her arms are raised, fists clenched, her thin body both beckoning and defiant of the enemy. On the 20th anniversary of the first democratic vote in South Africa, it is this resistance that should be celebrated.

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