On the Road With Our American Selves

By Mattea Kramer / TomDispatch Nov 23, 2016 After the fluorescent circus of Election 2016, I imagine what would be truly exceptional: an America that values all human life in the same way. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Journalist Thomas Frank on His Politics, His Midwestern Upbringing and Rock Music

Staff / Truthdig Nov 9, 2016 Frank joins Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett for a conversation on Shiflett’s podcast, “Walking the Floor.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Political Economist Michael Hudson on Why Trump Is the ‘Lesser Evil’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 8, 2016 If Hillary Clinton is more capable of wielding US military and financial dominance to endanger lives at home and abroad, does that make Trump the better choice in 2016? Hudson weighs in during an interview with Renegade Inc military and financial dominance to endanger lives at home and abroad, does that make Trump the better choice in 2016? Hudson (pictured) weighs in during an interview with Renegade Inc. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Is Turkey Entitled to Abduct or Kill on American Soil When It Claims to Be Threatened?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2016 If the U.S. can send its military into sovereign territories, why can't Turkey, asks the former chief prosecutor of Guantanamo’s military commissions. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

5 Questions That Are Unlikely to Be Asked During the 2016 Presidential Election

By Peter Van Buren / TomDispatch Mar 18, 2016 In October 2012, I considered five critical foreign policy questions that were not being discussed by then-candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Sadly, those questions remain as pertinent and unraised today as they were four years ago. Unlike then, however, answers may be at hand, and believe me, that's not good news. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Back to the Dark Side: Dick Cheney’s Pax Americana

By Ambassador Joe Wilson (ret.) and Valerie Plame / The Washington Spectator Oct 26, 2015 "Exceptional," the new book from former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, is nothing more than an unhinged rant that smacks of sedition. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Prophet Margin

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Noam Chomsky: Exceptionalism Is a Concept Held by Every Great Power and It’s Always Wrong

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 15, 2015 In a conversation with theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, Noam Chomsky explains why American exceptionalism is neither unique nor founded on truth and how U.S. foreign policy only benefits the most powerful Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Real American Exceptionalism

By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch Feb 26, 2015 While Presidents Eisenhower and Bush decided on exceptions that violated national boundaries and international treaties, President Obama is exercising his exceptional prerogatives in the unbounded domains of aerospace and cyberspace. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Is This Country Crazy?

By Ann Jones, TomDispatch Jan 12, 2015 I still remember a time when to be an American was to be envied. The country where I grew up after World War II seemed to be respected and admired around the world for way too many reasons to go into here. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Importance of Being Exceptional

By David Bromwich, TomDispatch Oct 24, 2014 Why is it immoral for a person to treat himself as an exception? The reason is plain: because morality, by definition, means a standard of right and wrong that applies to all persons without exception. Yet to answer so briefly may be to oversimplify. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Exceptions

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