Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why Is Too Much Not Enough?

by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Money seen in the caduceus.
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: jovike, cygnus921)

Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does corporate America really need? How much bigger do executive salaries and bonuses have to be? How many houses or jets or artworks can be crammed into a life? After all, as billionaire movie director Steven Spielberg is reported to have said, when all is said and done, "How much better can lunch get?" »

Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Final Health Care Bill Vote Due "As Early As Next Week"

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry - first by flirting with the prospect of having a government-run program to compete with private insurers and then floating a proposal to expand Medicare to a younger demographic - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Congress is ready to vote on a final bill as early as next week that doesn't include either of those plans.

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Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr.

“Soul of a Citizen” Excerpt: The Real Rosa Parks

by: Paul Rogat Loeb, t r u t h o u t | Book Excerpt

One reason people despair so easily these days is that we often have little sense of how change has occurred in times past, and of what it took for ordinary people to persist until they prevailed. The Rosa Parks story offers an example that we all think we know, but where the story as usually told omits the key context and blurs the key lessons.

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