Opinion

Jon Stewart: ‘Holy Crap, We’re Going to War With Iran’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 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 . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Farewell to McClellan

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America’s Gas Pump

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Powell – Bush’s ‘Yes’ Men

Dwayne Powell / Truthdig Apr 19, 2006 Dig deeper

Bush Housecleaning Begins at Home

Staff / Truthdig Apr 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 )

In Conversation with author Chris Abani

Zuade Kaufman / Truthdig Apr 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 ( 11 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bush’s Nutty Nuclear Braggadocio

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 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 )

Powell – Rumsfeld on the Defensive

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Gore Vidal: America and Empire

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Apr 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 )

General Planning

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jack In to ‘The Meatrix II’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 The creators behind the critically acclaimed Matrix satire, "The Meatrix," have produced an equally engaging sequel, which continues to shine a harsh light on the conditions endured by animals on industrial farms. Watch it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Belief & Religion

Easter: The Resurrection (with Questions)

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig Apr 13, 2006 Hallelujah! Easter is almost here. Aren't you glad? What's that low sigh I hear? Ohhhhh that's right, you're one of those progressive Christians. Easter is probably the most conflicted time of the year among progressive churches, even more so than Christmas. Even a progressive Christian can reasonably assert that Jesus was really born, even as the debate goes on among others about how he was born. But this is not so with Easter. Either he was resurrected or he was not. And when we say he was not, then someone somewhere will quote I Corinthians 15:12 to us, "Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?" Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )