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Joe Conason: Fire Chertoff, for Starters

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jun 9, 2006 Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff may have again revealed his incompetence by slashing New York's anti-terror funding, but the problems plaguing that agency reach far deeper than one man. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Media Failed Its Duty in Lee Case

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 7, 2006 Five of the largest U.S. newspapers shirked their journalistic responsibility by covering up the government's outrageous smear campaign against Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

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 )

Andy Borowitz: Iran Trying to Obtain Paris Hilton’s Album

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Jun 3, 2006 The political satirist quotes U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying: "This is the most serious threat to world peace since North Korea obtained an early DVD of 'Gigli.' " Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Gene Gerard: Abstaining from Sex Education Politics

Gene Gerard / Truthdig Jun 2, 2006 New Truthdig contributor Gene Gerard, a longtime college professor of history, religion and ethics, examines the efforts of conservative legislators to stifle discussion of contraceptives in public schools--in favor of abstinence-only education. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Sunsara Taylor: Drive Out the Bush Regime

Sunsara Taylor / Truthdig Jun 2, 2006 Sunsara Taylor, author of the widely debated BattleCry columns, sets forth in this manifesto a case for driving President Bush and his administration from office--anchored by an Oct. 5 boycott of work and schools nationwide. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bush Links Energized Enron

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 31, 2006 The Bush family consistently acted to put Enron and its longtime CEO, Ken Lay, into a position to rip off investors and taxpayers. Why is the mass media ignoring that fact now that Lay has been convicted in arguably the most egregious example of white-collar fraud in U.S. history? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Reform the System Or Lose the Democracy

Molly Ivins / Truthdig May 30, 2006 Kenny Lay paid heaps in campaign contributions to use our president as his "errand boy," and democracy faltered. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Wow! Iraqi Leader Takes Bush’s Calls

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 24, 2006 "  'He wouldn't have taken my phone call a year ago,' Bush said Monday of the new Iraqi parliament speaker. 'He's now taken it twice.' Wow, and it cost only $200 billion and thousands of maimed and dead American soldiers to get the president's call returned." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

BattleCry: Ron Luce’s Holy War

Sunsara Taylor / Truthdig May 23, 2006 Truthdig contributor Sunsara Taylor reports again from the front lines -- a BattleCry Christian-fundamentalist rock music rally, where a "sexpert" claims that "condoms don't work," Navy SEALs stage mock assassination raids in the name of Christ, and evangelist Franklin Graham suggests that HIV/AIDS is a punishment from God (Third in a series See: column 1, column 2) . Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bush More Right Than Wrong on Immigration

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 17, 2006 "It is good news that the public is finally hip to Bush's con, yet it is worrisome when surprisingly sensible proposals by the president on immigration are automatically rejected because of the source." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Andy Borowitz — Bush Demands That Iran Halt Production of Long Letters

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The political satirist reports: White House aides said that writing an 18-page letter to President Bush, who is known for his extreme distaste for reading, was the most provocative act Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could possibly have committed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )