Protest Contest

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jun 26, 2012 Dig deeper

Giffords Aide Wins, Jamie Dimon Testifies and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 13, 2012 A look at the day's political events, including the Arizona special election winner, JPMogran Chase CEO Jamie Dimon heckled and Sheldon Adelson's latest multimillion-dollar donation. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Waiting for the Trickle

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons May 31, 2012 Dig deeper

Seems About Right to Me

Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons May 19, 2012 Dig deeper

93 Percent of New Wealth in 2010 Went to Top 1 Percent

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Apr 4, 2012 Dig deeper

The .0000063% Election

By Ari Berman, TomDispatch Feb 18, 2012 At a time when it’s become cliché to say Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation, electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1%. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063%. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Inside Romney’s Tax Returns

By Lena Groeger, ProPublica Jan 26, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday and news organizations are making their way through them ProPublica shows us where to look to make sense of the numbersRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

MLK Dream Update

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Jan 16, 2012 Dig deeper

Rich-Poor Gap

Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette Jan 9, 2012 Dig deeper

Occupy Wall Street Makes a Film

Staff / Truthdig Jan 5, 2012 In keeping with the democratic spirit of Occupy Wall Street, film-savvy Occupiers are pulling from massive amounts of footage shot by journalists and activists to produce a sleek-looking film that chronicles the movement’s early days. Here’s a preliminary trailer and a request for the donations needed to make it happen. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Census Shows Nearly Half of Americans Are Struggling Financially

Staff / Truthdig Dec 15, 2011 The general gist of findings from the 2010 census may not be shocking, but the actual numbers detailing the growing problem of the shrinking middle class in America are: Nearly half of all Americans qualify for the poor or low-income categories, making income inequality an issue that now splits the nation down the middle. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Police Clear Occupy Camps in Los Angeles, Philadelphia

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2011 In the end, after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made a show of less force when it came to the city's approach to its own Occupy movement, a giant squad of more than 1,000 police officers descended on the downtown encampment around City Hall early Wednesday morning, arrested around 200 people (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )