Tag: History

Reports: Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

A/V Booth: A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Truthdig Podcast: A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Game of Death

A/V Booth: Bill Moyers Makes Newt Gingrich Look Like an Idiot

Reports: Is a Nuclear Iran Really to Be Feared?

Reports: California and the Rapture-Ready Candidacy of Newt Gingrich

Reports: The Dream That Came True

Reports: James Cone’s Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Reports: For Once, Let’s Just Leave Iraq Alone

Reports: Extravagant Hopes of 2008 Haunt Obama in 2012

Ear to the Ground: Obituary: John Lawrence Fought the Ban on Gay Love and Won

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Reports: Obama: The Conservative in 2012

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

Reports: Germany Dominates Europe Once Again

Reports: Obama’s New Square Deal

Reports: Where Were You When They Crucified My Lord?

Reports: The Sayings of Chairman Barney

Reports: The Fog in Our Future

Reports: Thought Crime in Washington

A/V Booth: Errol Morris: The Umbrella Man

Reports: How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

Reports: New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich

Arts and Culture: Saving the Rave From Extinction

Ear to the Ground: Obama the Underdog

Truthdig Podcast: Manarchy!

A/V Booth: Manarchy!

Reports: Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent

Reports: Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

Reports: A Master Class in Occupation

Reports: The Worst Generation

Reports: Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent

Reports: Perry, Cain and Flat Earth Government

Reports: Lincoln’s Lessons for Obama

Reports: The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to Wall Street

Arts and Culture: The Great Van Gogh Murder Mystery

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Reports: Which Side Are You On!

Reports: A New Bush Era or a Push Era?

Reports: Occupy the Moment

Reports: Policing the Prophets of Wall Street

A/V Booth: Ry Cooder Listening Party With Robert Scheer

Arts and Culture: The Sad, Secret Life of a Spy

Reports: Suleiman’s Travels

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

Reports: Palestine Vote Showcases the Decline of American Power

Reports: Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Cartoons: Jackie O Called MLK a ‘Phony’

Reports: Lost Decade … Lost Generation?

Reports: How to Save the United States and Israel From Themselves

Reports: What the Country Needs Is a New New Deal

Reports: How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: The Last Labor Day?

Arts and Culture: Vandals Assault Roman Treasures

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

Arts and Culture: June Gloom With Lewis Lapham

Reports: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Reports: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda

Reports: A Come-to-Jesus Moment for American Religion

Reports: The Real Dr. King: An Extremist for Justice

Reports: Race and the Church of Denialism

Reports: MLK’s Vision of Justice

Reports: Deep in the Heart of Fantasyland

Reports: How Obama Can Save His Presidency

Reports: Confessions of a Dead Tribune

Reports: Assassination as Foreign Policy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Job Approval Sinks to a New Low

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Ramadan, Revolution and Rumors

Reports: A Downgrade’s GOP Fingerprints

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Reports: The World Has Been Watching

Arts and Culture: God Bless Cantankerous Old Men

Reports: Without a Debt Deal, Obama Can Make the Rich Pay

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Reports: Fundamentalism Kills

Reports: Murdoch: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Reports: I Missed My Chance to Pee on Rupert Murdoch

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Reports: New China Will Be Red and Expert

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Reports: What Our Declaration Really Said

Reports: Get Out of Afghanistan

Truthdig Podcast: Innocent and Executed

A/V Booth: Innocent and Executed

Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas

Reports: Gay Marriage: From Stonewall to Albany

Reports: Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Stinging Mad

Truthdig Podcast: One-State Solution

A/V Booth: One-State Solution

Reports: Commencement Day for a Lost Generation

Reports: Turkey in Position to Lead Region Out of Tumultuous Century

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Reports: Reflections on Israel: From Idealism to Ethnic Cleansing

A/V Booth: ‘Three Myths’ of Israeli History

Reports: The Revisionist Ride of Paul Revere

Reports: The Sky Really Is Falling

Reports: Our Imagination Deficit

Ear to the Ground: Vermont Approves Universal Health Care

Truthdig Podcast: Ry Cooder vs. Wall Street

A/V Booth: Ry Cooder Takes On Wall Street Greed

Ear to the Ground: Murder Mystery: Chile Exhumes Salvador Allende

Reports: America’s Mermaid

Reports: Libyan Intervention Exposes European Disunity

A/V Booth: Queen Comes Close to Apology in Ireland

Reports: ‘Electronic Brownshirts’

Reports: Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?

Ear to the Ground: Queen to Visit the One That Got Away

Reports: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

Reports: Tony Kushner and the Angels of Dissent

Reports: A Fork in the Road: Where the U.S. Goes From Here

Reports: Needed: A Better Ruling Class

Arts and Culture: The Reinvention of Malcolm X

Reports: At Last: A President, Not a Ref

Reports: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Ear to the Ground: Saudis Play Into Radical islam’s Hands

Reports: Why Not Bachmann?

Ear to the Ground: Secret History of the Libyan Uprising

Reports: Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of Objectivity

A/V Booth: Obama Addresses His Third Muslim War

Reports: This Friend Was a Fighter

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Reports: Those Useful Tyrants

Ear to the Ground: Miracle Food Blues: Bolivia Trades Health for Cash

Reports: A Bet on Japan

Reports: Six Sadistic Proposals From State Government

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on the ‘Disintegrated’ Media, Cultural Illiteracy

Reports: Why We Loved David Broder

Reports: A Warning to the World

Reports: American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check

Reports: The Revenge of God

Reports: People Power vs. Washington

Cartoons: Revenge of the Mummies

Reports: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

Reports: When America Left Arab Rebels to the Slaughter

Reports: This Time We’re Taking the Whole Planet With Us

Cartoons: Final Voyage of Discovery

Reports: Lifting the Heavy Thumb

Reports: Yes, America Still Needs Unions

Reports: How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself

Reports: Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas, You Have the Right to Remain Silent

Reports: New Regimes Have Reason to Resent America

Arts and Culture: How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of the Affordable Home

Reports: Whistling Dixie—Again

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: From Concord to Cairo: Freedom

Cartoons: Egyptian History

Reports: Reagan’s Democrats

Reports: Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Reports: The Last Reagan Campaign: Legacy

Reports: Lessons From Our Egypt Moment

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Reports: The Right Smears ElBaradei

Reports: American-Israeli Policy Tested by Arab Uprisings

Reports: Saad’s Revolution

Reports: What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Reports: Obama Changes the Narrative

Reports: Barack Obama: Paradoxical Whig

Reports: Sundance and the Art of Democracy

Reports: If Only We Had More Sarge Shrivers

Reports: A Tale of Two Dictators

Reports: JFK’s Eloquence, 50 Years Later

Reports: What It Was Like to Be John F. Kennedy

Reports: The Lives of Dictators

Reports: Healer in Chief

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: The House of Professors

Reports: Economic Suicide

Reports: Wrong Again, Sen. Graham

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Reports: No Time for ’Tirement’

Reports: Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?

Ear to the Ground: Henry Kissinger’s Appalling Human Rights Record

Reports: ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t

Reports: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia

Reports: Let’s Not Spin the Civil War

Reports: Sept. 11 Heroes Disdained on the Right

Reports: The Pride of ‘Obama’s Orphans’

Reports: Haley Barbour’s Civil Rights Airbrush

Reports: The B-Plus President

Reports: President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comcast and Verizon)

Reports: Democracy: Made in China

Reports: Colonialism Still at Heart of Africa’s Problems

Ear to the Ground: The Hot New Tourist Destination: Chernobyl

Reports: It’s Morning in China

Reports: No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted

Reports: The Specter Haunting Obama

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Kurdish Official Backs Self-Determination

Reports: Every Man His Own Historian

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