DEIB - Truthdig

AOC ’28 Starts Now

Jeb Lund / Truthdig Jan 17, 2025 Forget failed party norms about campaign calendars. It’s time to get to work. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Idealist Destruction of Syria

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Jan 17, 2025 Revisiting the inter-left debate on the Assad regime with a specific eye to the staunch moralists who supported his overthrow. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Media

Right-Wing Sleuths Find the L.A. Fires Culprit: Wokeness

Ari Paul / FAIR Jan 16, 2025 The coverage demonstrates once again that the W-word can be used to blame literally anything in MAGA world. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Opinion

Michael Arria / Mondoweiss Jan 15, 2025 Biden administration officials are attempting to put a positive gloss on their foreign policy legacy. But that legacy is, and will remain, one of genocide. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

The ‘Uber Model’ Comes for Nursing

Aastha Uprety / Inequality.org Jan 15, 2025 On-demand nursing endangers workers and patients alike, a new report finds. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Courts & Law

Voters Backed Abortion Rights but State Judges Have Final Say

Bram Sable-Smith, Katheryn Houghton / KFF Health News Jan 14, 2025 Successful November ballot measures protecting the right to an abortion may be in jeopardy in states with conservative judges. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Interview

What It’s Like To Be an Incarcerated Firefighter

Natalia Mesa / High Country News Jan 14, 2025 Eddie Herrera Jr., who started working as a firefighter while incarcerated, talks about the job and how he sees what’s happening in Los Angeles. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Europe

Jean-Marie Le Pen: The Life and Death of a Nazi

John Mullen / Green Left Jan 13, 2025 Since the 1950s, he was France's foremost fascist and reveled in the controversy he could instigate merely by expressing his unapologetic opinion. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Politics

Of the Plutocrats, by the Plutocrats, and for the Plutocrats

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Jan 13, 2025 On the eve of the second Trump administration, America’s super rich have never been so conspicuous about running the show. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Column

The Party of Smug

Eoin Higgins / Truthdig Jan 10, 2025 It’s high time to put a spike through serves-you-right liberalism. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Activism

Can a Dictator Be Defeated Without Violence? There’s Evidence They Can.

George Lakey / Waging Nonviolence Jan 9, 2025 The Global Nonviolent Action Database details cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Politics

NYT Revises History of How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

Dean Baker / Beat the Press Jan 8, 2025 The paper wants us to believe disaffection is a result of misunderstanding and not an elite agenda in which it is complicit. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )