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Sunsara Taylor–CDC to Women: Prepare to Give Birth!

Sunsara Taylor / Truthdig Jun 7, 2006 A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control recommends classifying all women as pre-pregnant--whether they intend to conceive or not. It's an audacious leap along the logical fault line that values women as mere fetal incubators. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Flag Burning and Other Dubious Epidemics

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2006 It's not enough to just worry What's important is to worry about the right things And that's where the Republicans come charging to your aid With just a bit of GOP education, your anxieties will be perfectly on target . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Debate Begins on Gay Marriage Amendment

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2006 President Bush renewed his call for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage Detractors called the move transparently political--in light of the fact that the proposed amendment stands virtually no chance of passing either house of Congress Full-sized cartoons: top, middle, bottom . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Duke Reinstating Lacrosse Team

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2006 Duke University President Richard Brodhead said about his decision: "I am, I know, taking a risk in reinstating men's lacrosse [but] if we did not allow these players the chance to take responsibility for creating a new history for their sport at Duke, we would be denying another very fundamental value: the belief in the possibility of learning from experience, the belief in education itself" . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Wave Rider

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2006 Truthdig contributor Steven Kotler describes in The New York Times Magazine how the mere act of going surfing pulled him out of a near-suicidal battle with Lyme disease and kick-started a quest to explore the nexus of surf, science and spirituality. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Netroots Seen as Threat to Two-Party System

Staff / Truthdig Jun 5, 2006 Democratic strategist Joe Trippi writes that the rise of the Netroots-based organization Unite08 may be the harbinger of the end of the traditional two-party system in American politics. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Democrats Are Urged to Become Republicans

Staff / Truthdig Jun 5, 2006 That's the call from Michael Tomasky in a cover story for the American Prospect. He means republicans with a small 'r'--defenders of the idea of a republic that serves the common good. Tomasky writes: "What the Democrats still don?t have is a philosophy, a big idea that unites their proposals and converts them from a hodgepodge of narrow and specific fixes into a vision for society." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Claim: Bush Doesn’t Give a S–t About Gay Marriage

Staff / Truthdig Jun 5, 2006 Newsweek anonymously quotes a friend of the president's as saying, "I think it was purely political. I don't think he gives a s--t about" gay marriage. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Best Kiss: Brokeback Mountain

Staff / Truthdig Jun 4, 2006 Jake Gyllenhaal's kiss with Heath Ledger beat out real-life couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kiss for the " Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Wal-Mart Goes Organic

Staff / Truthdig Jun 4, 2006 Organic food is about to go mainstream. Michael Pollan explores what the globalization of organic food means, and finds it hard to separate the good from the bad. Also, see our interview with Pollan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gay Rights in the Middle East Still Nascent

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2006 CNN features a rare interview: a homosexual Lebanese man who is unafraid of going public about his sexuality. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Cynical Can You Get?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2006 President Bush, having alienated the country on almost every other possible issue, has now resumed his push for a gay marriage ban, in the hopes that his base will rally once again. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )