The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Douglas Mappin, Angela Wolf)

I've been trying to wrap my mind around the dispiriting sense of failure that seems to have enveloped the Obama administration on the eve of the November midterms. The right hates him because he won, because he's Black, and because he won. Their utter intransigence has completely upended Obama's knee-jerk instinct for compromise and bipartisanship, making it appear that he's not getting anything done, and so the middle of the electorate feels a deep sense of disappointment exacerbated by »

A Boy Scout and a blinding light.

The Right Manipulates Muslims - and Boy Scouts

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

I was never a Boy Scout but I was a helluva Cub Scout.

Pack 30, First Congregational Church. I rose through the ranks: Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Lion. I accumulated Gold and Silver Arrow Points, the Cubs’ junior varsity version of merit badges. My mom was a Cub Scout den mother and spent a lot of time teaching fake Indian campfire songs and decorating various arts and crafts with poster paint.

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More than 200 people came out to protest, nearly one-tenth of the average of 1,100 people deported every day.

Arizona Injunction a Victory, but Not End of the Fight, Activists Say

by: Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t | Report

A federal judge's ruling has prevented the most contested parts of SB1070, Arizona's contested immigration law, from taking effect, but protests and recrimination have shown that feelings in the state remain far from friendly.

The SB1070 legislation went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, but significant portions of the laws were enjoined by a federal court order ruling in a lawsuit »

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