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Robert Scheer, Editor in Chief

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Robert Scheer has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country, and his in-depth interviews have made headlines. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and he went on to do many interviews for the Los Angeles Times with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many other prominent political and cultural figures.

Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. From 1976 to 1993 he served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, writing on diverse topics such as the Soviet Union, arms control, national politics and the military. In 1993 he launched a nationally syndicated column based at the Los Angeles Times, where he was named a contributing editor.  That column ran weekly for the next 12 years and is now based at Truthdig.

Scheer can be heard on the political radio program “Left, Right and Center” on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, Calif.  He has written eight books, including “Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power”; “With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War” and “America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals;” with his son Christopher and Lakshmi Chaudhry, “The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq;” and “Playing President: “My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I and Clinton—and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush.” Most recently, he wrote “The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.”

Scheer was raised in the Bronx, where he attended public schools and graduated from City College of New York. He studied as a Maxwell fellow at Syracuse University and was a fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley, where he did graduate work in economics. Scheer is a contributing editor for The Nation as well as a Nation Fellow. He has also been a Poynter fellow at Yale, and was a fellow in arms control at Stanford.




Truthdig Articles

2009

11/03 Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy

10/27 Lieberman Twists the Knife

10/20 Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax

10/13 Public Health Before Wall Street Wealth

10/06 A War of Absurdity

09/29 Exorcising America’s Diplomatic Demons

09/22 Saving the Obama Revolution

09/15 Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail

09/08 A 9/11 Reality Check

09/01 Obama’s Meaningless War

08/25 Remembering the Real Deal

08/18 UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know?

08/11 Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag

08/05 Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought

08/04 Banking Bandits Get Their Reward

07/28 The Chinese Come Calling

07/21 Deep-Sixing the F-22

07/14 ‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold ... Again

07/07 McNamara’s Evil Lives On

07/06 Remembering McNamara

07/01 The Root of Madoff’s Evil

06/24 Foreclosure Fiasco

06/17 Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

06/10 A Republican to Save Us

06/03 Reagan Didn’t Do It

05/26 Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

05/19 Our Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain

05/12 Pelosi the Enabler

05/05 Cashing In on ‘Government Sachs’

04/28 The Clinton Bubble

04/22 Thievery Under the TARP

04/14 Endgame for Gramm?

04/07 Living Large and in Charge

03/31 In for a Penny, In for $2.98 Trillion

03/24 Obama’s Toxic Advisers

03/17 Perp Walks Instead of Bonuses

03/10 Socialism Without a Soul

03/03 Billions Dished Out in the Shadows

02/25 Getting Warmer

02/18 Good Money After Bad

02/10 No Tough Love for Wall Street

02/04 Runaway Wall Street

01/27 Economic Policy Could Scuttle Obama’s Good Start

01/20 Time to Get to Work

01/13 Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again

01/06 Why Do So Few Speak Up for Gaza?

2008

12/30 Gaza Clouds Obama’s Prospects

12/23 Cheney’s Legacy of Deception

12/16 President Bush and the Flying Shoes: A Cautionary Tale

12/09 Republicans Bring Socialism to America

12/02 Will Obama Stay the Course?

11/25 Obama Chooses Wall Street Over Main Street

11/18 Change We Can Bank On

11/11 Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama

11/04 Morning Again in America

10/28 Just How Dumb Are White Males?

10/21 The Battle for Obama’s Economic Soul

10/14 The Hoover-Palin Ticket

10/07 A Plague Upon the White House

09/30 Boston Tea Party, 2008

09/23 A Fox to Protect the Henhouse?

09/19 Economic Meltdown: Don’t Say We Weren’t Forewarned

09/16 Earth to McCain: It’s a Crisis

09/09 She’s Clueless, He’s Worse

09/02 Palin’s Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries

08/26 Running for War President at Any Cost

08/19 McCain’s Warped Worldview

08/12 Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?

08/05 Terror From the Inside

07/29 Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest

07/22 Obama on the Brink

07/15 The Real Legacy of the ‘Reagan Revolution’

07/08 Taiwan Declares Peace on China

07/01 Happy Oil Dependence Day

06/24 Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them

06/17 Is Clinton the Ticket for Obama?

06/14 Empire or Republic?

06/10 Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush

06/03 What Makes McCain Tick?

06/01 Indefensible Spending

05/27 Where Is the Outrage?

05/20 Paying for War at the Pump

05/13 The Tortured Law on Torture

05/06 Battle of the Hawks

04/29 No Country for Old Men

04/22 Clinton Threatens to ‘Obliterate’ Iran

04/15 The Man Who Would Be Bush

04/08 Everything His President Wants to Hear

04/01 A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida’s Navy

03/25 War of the Word

03/18 Bush’s Legacy of Failure

03/12 Spitzer’s Shame Is Wall Street’s Gain

03/04 ‘Great Satan’ Gets Struck Out

02/26 What the Times Didn’t Tell About McCain

02/19 Castro and the Colossus

02/12 Aboard the Condoleezza Rice

02/05 The Legacy of Bush II

01/29 Obama, Clinton and the War

01/22 Who Will Take On the Banks?

01/15 Those Ungrateful Saudis

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To subscribe to Scheer’s regular column please visit robertscheer.com.

Scheer can be heard on the political radio program “Left, Right and Center” on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica.

Scheer is also clinical professor at The University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication.

Publications

TunaFish

Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death

By Robert Scheer
Hardcover $13.16

PornoPower

The Pornography of Power

By Robert Scheer
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Playing President

By Robert Scheer
Paperback $13.16

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq

By Robert Scheer, Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry
$9.95

“The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq”
by Chris Scheer, Lakshmi Chaudhry, and Robert Scheer

“Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power”
by Robert Scheer

“With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War”
by Robert Scheer

“America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals”
by Robert Scheer

               

               


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