Politics

TD Interview

Coming of Age in the Shadow of 9/11

Eoin Higgins / Truthdig Sep 20, 2024 A new book offers a personal and political history of Bush-era America and its imprints on the present. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Media

WSJ Wants Judiciary Shielded From Scrutiny

Ari Paul / FAIR Sep 19, 2024 The editorial board criticized recent investigations into the Supreme Court as an attempt to "tarnish the court as political." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Politics

Time To Get Serious

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Sep 19, 2024 Fifty days out, a small national polling advantage for Harris plus Electoral College weirdness equals a dead heat. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

No Tears for Carl Icahn

Robert Reich / Substack Sep 19, 2024 As investors flee his private equity firm, the former Trump adviser remains a symbol of shareholder capitalism. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Military

Giving Cruise Missiles to Ukraine Won’t Change the Battlefield Equation

George Beebe / Responsible Statecraft Sep 18, 2024 But it very well could lead to a catastrophic escalation of the war. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Column

Heller Skelter

Bill Blum / Truthdig Sep 17, 2024 How two Supreme Court decisions supercharged the nation’s gun violence epidemic. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Women

How Abortion Bans Kill By Delaying Emergency Medical Care

Kavitha Surana / ProPublica Sep 17, 2024 At least two women in Georgia have died because they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Race

Tracing the Anti-Haitian Hate Targeting Springfield

Ayendy Bonifacio / NACLA Sep 17, 2024 Old racist tropes demonizing Haitians have been revived, once again casting immigrants from Haiti as dangerous outsiders. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Opinion

America’s Thousand Percent Prescription Drug Tariff

Dean Baker / Beat the Press Sep 17, 2024 Import taxes have nothing on drug patents that raise prices 100-fold. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Column

Neoliberals Are Wrong About Bidenomics

Conor Lynch / Truthdig Sep 16, 2024 Harris shouldn't back down from curbing corporate greed and supporting labor unions. In fact, she should go bolder. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Presidential Debates Love To Avoid the Topic of Taxing the Rich

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Sep 16, 2024 Some unasked questions might have helped prevent the last half-century’s massive concentration of income and wealth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Immigration

Do Border

Daniel Denvir / n+1 Sep 13, 2024 Immigration politics and the nativist cycle. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )