Staff / TruthdigApr 22, 2006
It didn't take songwriters long to lampoon Bush's instantly infamous "I'm the decider" remark. Check out this one, which is burning up the rankings at the Huffington Post. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 21, 2006
After Donald Rumsfeld dismissed reports of a possible strike on Iran by mockingly saying, "Henny penny the sky is falling" Jon Stewart spanked the secretary of defense with a clip of him using the same phrase three years ago--to mock the idea that Iraq was descending into chaos
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Staff / TruthdigApr 19, 2006
In a moment of satire, the Washington Post surfaces a letter that Bush wrote to his daughters explaining why he's decided to replace them with Chelsea Clinton. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Zuade Kaufman / TruthdigApr 19, 2006
The acclaimed novelist and poet, who escaped from imprisonment and torture in his native Nigeria, discusses his new novella about child prostitution and sex trafficking. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigApr 19, 2006
"A once swaggering president, who so convincingly wielded a bullhorn and modeled a flight suit, now has assumed the pretzel pose of a supplicant attempting to cajole our old enemy in Tehran into dropping its nuclear ambitions while simultaneously initiating talks with Iran aimed at bailing us out in Iraq." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Gore Vidal / TruthdigApr 15, 2006
The celebrated man of letters charts the course of American post-WWII hegemony in this concise original essay written as a foreword to Robert Scheer's new book "Playing President." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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