Truthdig Columns

2013

05/16 Texas Blast Exposes the New Normal

05/10 The Military’s 40-Year Experiment

05/03 The Real Obstacle to Halting Climate Change

04/26 A Cronkite Moment for the Blowback Era

04/19 Catastrophe and the Value of Silence

04/05 A Victory Against the Language of Bigotry

03/29 The Supreme Court’s Radical New Precedent

03/22 Call It What It Is: A Class War

03/14 The U.N. Needs to Sober Up

03/08 An Unrepresentative Democracy

03/01 Mental Health: Time to Stop White-Knuckling It

02/22 Two 2016 Prospects Spotlight Democrats’ Identity Crisis

02/15 The Blind Theology of Militarism

02/08 The Sports Tax

02/01 Santa Clausifying Martin Luther King Jr.

01/25 The President of Perpetual War

01/18 The Second Amendment vs. the First Amendment

01/11 How to Reach the Last 20 Percent

01/04 The Truth Behind the Fiscal Cliff’s Reality TV Show

2012

12/21 Coaches Over the Common Good

12/13 Homeownership Support Shouldn’t Be a Mansion Subsidy

12/06 A Picture Worth Far More Than 1,000 Words

11/15 Ending the Drug War: The Next Serious Step Through the Haze of Comedy

11/09 The Post-Election Politics of the Revolving Door

11/02 A Republican’s Rare Chance to Be a Real Leader

10/25 In Defense of the Undecided Voter

10/21 Two Old Names, One Lesson About Money

10/11 A GOP Shift on Taxes?

10/04 Debating Social Security: If Not Now, When?

09/27 The Choice Between Automatons and Leaders

09/21 Drug Dealers Protecting Their Turf

09/06 Big Brother in Your Car

08/31 The Climate Bites Back

08/24 From Greenwashing to Workerwashing

08/17 Who Is Paul Ryan?

08/10 Can Government Create Jobs or Not?

08/03 Congressional Carnivores Rage Over ‘Meatless Monday’

07/27 Gold Medalists in Fake Outrage

07/20 ‘Debate’ Over Taxes? Read On

07/06 The Logic of Willful Ignorance

06/28 A New Standard for Oxymoronic Newspeak

06/21 Don’t Fall for Corporate Blackmail

06/17 The Revolutionaries Feeding the Obesity Crisis

06/07 The War on Whistle-Blowers

05/31 The Legend of the Spat-Upon Veteran

05/25 A Rare Admission That Money Trumps Everything Else

05/18 Yes, We Can Walk and Chew Gum

05/10 Our Guns-and-Butter Economy

05/04 Property Rights in the Cloud

04/26 The Politics of Sight

04/20 Contradiction Where Religion and American Politics Meet

04/12 The End of ‘Shut Up and Play’

04/05 Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need New Roads

03/23 Charter Schools Are Not the Silver Bullet

03/15 The Layer Ploy

03/09 A Welcome Return to Basic Standards

03/01 The Opposite of Snobbery

02/24 Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

02/17 Will We Choose a Chinese Future?

02/10 Embracing ‘Enough’

02/02 When It Comes to Education Technology, Trust—but Verify

01/26 The Economic Normalcy Bias

01/20 Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

01/13 Education Reformers Send Their Kids to Private School

01/05 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

2011

12/22 ’Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

12/16 Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy

12/08 What Real Education Reform Looks Like

12/01 Celebrating the End of Kids’ Wall Street Dreams

11/20 Anger Sowing Seeds of a New Consumer Movement

11/11 Why Income Inequality Suddenly Matters

10/27 TV That Finally Lifts Journalism Back ‘Up’

10/21 The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy

10/14 Government by Death Panel

10/06 Stopping the Insanity

09/29 How Baseball Explains Modern Racism

09/22 Two Heads of One Political Monster

09/15 University of Hypocrisy

09/08 10 Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’

09/01 The Lesson of the Chinese Invasion

08/25 Race and the Church of Denialism

08/18 The Vegetarian’s Dilemma

08/12 Collateral Damage in the War on Anonymity

08/04 The Bizarro FDR

07/21 The Terrorist Threat We’re Ignoring

07/15 Toward a New Politics of Food

07/10 The Finland Phenomenon

07/01 Shining the Spotlight on the Corporate Pay Gap

06/17 Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

06/09 America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

06/02 Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

05/27 Time to Crack Down on Child-Focused Ads

05/19 Turning the Camera on the Police

05/12 Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers

05/06 The High Cost of Cheap War

04/29 Why the Fat Guy Should Lose His Privilege

04/21 Beware of Vampire Squids and Their Stadium Schemes

04/14 Ikea Joins the Race to the Bottom

04/08 The Real Madness of March

04/01 Lessons of Libya