By Thom Hartmann / Independent Media InstituteDec 17, 2019
Like a partner who wants to repair a damaged relationship, Democrats must return to core principles and stay faithful to them. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
By Bill Moyers / Moyers and CompanyJul 31, 2017
Watching the failure of another GOP effort to deprive millions of their medical care, I recalled a very different scenario under then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 5, 2014
The Vietnam War began in earnest 50 years ago this Monday, when two U.S. ships off the coast of Vietnam began shooting at ghosts. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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BLANKMay 7, 2014
In this excerpt from her best-selling new book, Nomi Prins writes about the period during the administration of Lyndon Johnson when bankers began to move away from the president as they saw their global ambitions hemmed in by the Vietnam War. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 12, 2014
President Obama appeared in Austin, Texas, on Thursday night to deliver that rarest of speeches: a tribute to a former president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose administration still remains in controversy. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigApr 12, 2014
The Johnson comeback brings with it a new appreciation of the durability of the reforms enacted on his watch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJun 20, 2012
Those who prize civility over frank talk or success in politics may be disheartened to learn that attack ads of the type President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have begun to fling at each other are as old as the republic itself, and as New York magazine columnist Frank Rich says, they’re absolutely essential for effective politics. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJun 12, 2012
Robert Caro has so far spent 36 years writing the saga of Lyndon Johnson -- more time than the ambitious Texan spent climbing from Congress to the White House. Caro just released his fourth installment, “The Passage of Power,” which chronicles Johnson’s exit from a strong position in the Senate into the relative powerlessness of the vice presidency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigDec 21, 2011
A week ago, the publisher of Harper's Magazine wrote that President Barack Obama, through expedient political compromises, has lost the moral authority that an American president must command, and therefore has lost his right to a second presidential term. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 8, 2011
For $300 billion the president could do something truly different -- he could eliminate unemployment altogether. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigAug 5, 2011
Obama's Eisenhower nostalgia is troubling. That was half a century ago—before the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and federal aid to education. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 27, 2010
Newsweek senior editor and columnist Jonathan Alter talks about his new book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," and why "Just by getting health care through [Barack Obama is] now standing alone with Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson in terms of domestic achievement"The Newsweek columnist says, "Just by getting health care through ". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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