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It’s not just Hiroshima: The many other things America hasn’t apologized for

Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer

Here's Why Indiana Should #FreePurvi Patel on Appeal

Ohio House OKs online voter registration - starting in 2017

At world’s first humanitarian summit, major world leaders are no-shows

A Year Ago, I Crossed the DMZ in Korea. Here’s Why.

As Threats Spike, Advocates Urge Feds to Strengthen Law Protecting Abortion Clinic Access

U.S. Judge’s Striking Move in Felony Drug Case: Probation, Not Prison

AP: Trump clinches GOP nomination

Woke Feminist Men: Engaging Black Men and Boys on Sexual Violence Activism

"Disease Awareness"—How Big Pharma Preps You to Buy Drugs You Probably Don't Need

Evangelical Leaders May Embrace Trump the Sinner
-- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Solving the Fresh Water Crisis

Meet the people who have donated to both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Terrifying scene as migrant ship capsizes

The Myth That Sanders Hasn’t Been Criticized Won’t Go Away

Trump's a Nuclear Threat to the World
-- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout

BDS is free speech, says Dutch government

Funding Down, Tuition Up

A Peruvian Amazon Community Is Putting Up a Fight Against the Expansion of Oil Palm

Rental Assistance to Families with Children at Lowest Point in Decade

Senators Voted Unanimously To Lift The Bar on Suing Saudi Arabia . . . But Then Added Poison Pill Provision Allowing The Administration To Bar Such Lawsuits

Obama: World leaders 'rattled' by Trump

Activists Win Legislative Overhaul of Colorado's HIV Criminalization Laws, Await Governor's Signature

How to Feed the World as the Planet Warms
-- Dr. David Suzuki of EcoWatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

Senator Trolls Trump With Bill Requiring Presidential Nominees To Release Tax Returns

For Some Prisoners, Finishing Their Sentences Doesn’t Mean They Get Out

Ohio Judge Blocks GOP Efforts to Curtail Early Voting

New Law Could Force States to Let People With Disabilities Live Independent Lives

Clinton Broke Federal Rules With Email Server, Audit Finds

How to Disappear Money, Pentagon-Style

Dems discuss dropping Debbie Wasserman Schultz

As Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theories, Right-Wing Media Gets Its Wish

Louisiana Poised To Expand Hate-Crime Law To Protect Police

Massachusetts Prisoners Sent to Solitary After Meeting with State Legislators About Prison Reform

How the livestock industry can help cut greenhouse gas emissions

How Overly Broad Religious Exemptions Are Putting Children at Risk of Sexual Abuse

What My First Pregnancy Taught Me About Birth Justice

When a Killer Cop Retires: The Resignation of Dante Servin

Venezuela to Rejoin Global Group Fighting Conflict Diamonds

Brazil's New Government Is Already Planning to Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Poor

Seven Ways Educators Can Foster Safe Schools for Transgender Students

Patel Oral Arguments Suggest a Dangerous Precedent for Prosecuting Pregnant People

Judge Allows Concussion Class Action Suit Against National Hockey League

Does a fear of death lie at the heart of capitalism?

Analysis: Only five years left before 1.5C carbon budget is blown

Elites vs. Too Much Democracy: Andrew Sullivan’s Afraid of Popular Self-Government

Texas’ Largest Jail Accused Of Jailing Poor People Because They Don’t Have Money

A Glimpse of Justice for South Africa’s Gold Miners: High Court Allows Largest Class Action Suit in History

Green Party's Jill Stein Shares Her "Plan B" for Bernie Sanders Supporters: A Green New Deal

Is Hillary Clinton The Last Democratic Presidential Candidate To Support The Death Penalty?

Should Tax Returns Be a Presidential Prerequisite?

What's next for Bernie's base?

Citizens are telling cities and national governments to cooperate

The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton: America and the World In 2016 and Beyond

Cracks in Capitalism, Part II: Publicly Owned Energy Comes to London

'Dark money,' billionaires behind anti-Donald Trump ad barrage

Trade pitch turns Obama into salesman for Vietnam shoes

Israel Shifts Even Further Right

The road to a police state: how 'anti-terrorism' is destroying democracy

Bill Nye: Climate Deniers Are Wrong
-- Bill Nye for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Nepali farmers fight to save indigenous seeds

They made an example out of Purvi Patel

The Council for National Policy: Behind the Curtain

After Mississippi Flooding, Red Cross Stumbles Again

Is the ‘war on drugs’ destroying women’s lives?

Shell's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and the Limits of Capitalism

Bugs in Space and Tax Cheats
Affluent Americans are misreporting their incomes big-time — and annually costing the federal treasury hundreds of billions in the process

South Carolina’s Anti-Choice Fetal Pain Bill Is “Turning Lies Into Law”

Humanitarian Summit Must Address Weapons Shipments Too

After Hunger Strike to #EndTransDetention, Santa Ana City Council Votes to End ICE Contract

When the Police Came, I Didn't Risk Arrest. So What Was My Role at the Break Free Climate Action?

Officer Charged With Death Of Freddie Gray Found Not Guilty On All Counts

Clinton declines Calif. debate

Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal

Over 70 Prominent Activists and Scholars Urge Action by Obama in Hiroshima

Egypt Denies Reports That EgyptAir Body Parts Suggested an Explosion

As Obama Presses Vietnam on Rights, Activists Are Barred From Meeting

Can China's Futuristic 'Straddling Bus' Finally Become a Reality?

The number one thing we can do to protect Earth’s oceans

Health Care Costs for Average American Family Now Exceed $25,000 a Year

When will courts realize that leaks are vital to the American public?

In Online Sales Tax Battle, States Pin Hopes on Courts

Seven Myths About GMOs Debunked

Activists Gather Around The Country To #SayHerName

LGBT fight dooms spending bill on House floor

NFL’s War Against Science and Reason

Anti-Choice, Anti-LGBTQ Leaders Prepare to Cozy Up to Trump

Surveillance Chills Speech—As New Studies Show—And Free Association Suffers

L.A. County Registrar/Clerk on Voting Questions, Confusion Before CA's Presidential Primary

Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell

Clinton urged to go liberal with vice presidential pick

Bernie Sanders Helps Democrats Win Back The Senate By Fundraising For Russ Feingold

Greek police step up evacuation of Idomeni camp

Will You Join Me in Voting for Neither Trump Nor Clinton?

Millennials Like Sanders, Dislike Election Process

It's time to acknowledge the genocide of California's Native Americans

This Pantry Feeds Families That Can’t Afford Allergy-Friendly Diets

Fixing The Leaky Oil & Gas Industry

Advocates: Language in Ohio bill would ‘basically shut down’ solar

China to send nuclear-armed submarines into Pacific amid tensions with US
Beijing risks stoking new arms race with move although military says expansion of the US missile defence has left it with no choice

Bernie Sanders Agrees to Debate Donald Trump

11 states just jumped on the bathroom freakout bandwagon

'Threadbare's' investigative comics explore the hard choice some women face between sweatshops and sex work

Young Republicans National Federation chair resigns: 'I will not fall in line' for Donald Trump

New Brazil Minister Out After Revelations of Coup Plotting

Elizabeth Warren Effectively Exposes Donald Trump's Con, While Clinton Struggles
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Read Between the Lines: The Case for Bernie Sanders Running as an Independent

What Does It Mean to "Gig" American Workers?
-- Jim Hightower on BuzzFlash at Truthout

Jimmy Carter, Seeing Resurgence of Racism, Plans Baptist Conference for Unity

ExxonMobil tried to censor climate scientists to Congress during Bush era

Hearing Set on Future of Violence-Plagued New Orleans Jail

Ken Starr, Who Led the Sexual Inquisition Against Bill Clinton, Suddenly Embroiled in Major University Scandal

Police Contract and State Law Shield Cops From Accountability in Chicago
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Dear Mr. President, Human Rights Should Not Be Mere Lip Service

The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, lies and leaks

House GOP changes rules to thwart Dems

Two dozen Guantánamo detainees poised for release under Obama deals
White House has prepared to transfer 22 or 23 people to a handful of different countries, reducing the camp’s 80-strong population ahead of president’s exit

Solving the Fresh Water Crisis at Home

Los Angeles Officials ‘Not Going to Wait’ to Enforce Regulation on Anti-Choice Pregnancy Centers

A luxury hotel in Nepal is still hosting a camp for earthquake survivors, over one year later

Fossil Fuel Investments Growing Riskier for Insurers, Report Warns

Sanders requests re-canvass in Kentucky nailbiter

Pennsylvania Judge Orders Bill Cosby To Stand Trial For Sexual Assault

Why is the U.S. unwilling to pay for good public transportation?

Having a Parent Behind Bars Costs Children, States

Jeremy Scahill: Corporations Are Making a Killing Off US Targeted Killing

How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis

Cracks in Capitalism, Part III: "The Divide" Shows Inequality On the Big Screen

Did the Clinton Foundation Have a Storefront Accountant Like Madoff?

What are we doing to build an empowered citizenry?

Check This Map To See If Your Water Has Unsafe Levels Of “Fluorinated” Chemicals

Black Student Handcuffed Over ‘Stealing’ 65-Cent Milk Carton That Was Actually Free

Suicide rates in Gaza climb as humanitarian situation in the territory remains dire

Drought be Dammed
The water crisis in the West has renewed debate about the effectiveness of major dams, with some pushing for the enormous Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to be decommissioned.

Gaza laborers suffer few rights, little pay

Uber Rape Case Leaves No Safe Transit Option for Women in Mexico City

NYT: Protesters and Prosecutor Should Be Friends

Breaking Free By Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana

University of Phoenix Won’t Force Students to Arbitrate Claims; Scope Unclear

Entering the age of humans

The other opioid crisis – people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need

Scientists say nuclear fuel pools around the country pose safety and health risks

Cashing In at the Race Track While Facing Charges of "Abusive" Lending Practices

A signal of super-fires to come

Can the Greedy Be Truly Generous?

An Unhappy Birthday for the 1872 Mining Law

The world's largest cruise ship and its supersized pollution problem
As Harmony of the Seas sets sail from Southampton docks on Sunday she will leave behind a trail of pollution – a toxic problem that is growing as the cruise industry and its ships get ever bigger

Oil Spill Response Is a Joke

Legalization of Industrial Hemp in the US Is a No-Brainer
-- Lorraine Chow for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Inside the West's Cynical Plan to Keep Refugees out of Europe by Trapping Them in Libya

Blackmail 2016

What Chernobyl's Wildlife Can Teach Humans

Vindication for Edward Snowden From a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga

Getting a photo ID so you can vote is easy. Unless you’re poor, black, Latino or elderly.

World could warm by massive 10C if all fossil fuels are burned
Arctic would warm by as much as 20C by 2300 with disastrous impacts if action is not taken on climate change, warns new study

Sisi’s Egypt: Sliding Toward the Abyss

Sanders wins greater say in Democratic platform; names pro-Palestinian activist

Minn. farmers warned not to plant Monsanto's latest Roundup soybeans

House bill strengthening regulation of chemicals nears passage