Gays and Friends Take Over America on Saturday

Staff / Truthdig Nov 14, 2008 If you're looking for an opportunity to support the well-dressed and maritally oppressed, you're about to get your chance. On Saturday, protesters will take to the streets all across this great, if slightly homophobic, nation to take a stand for equality. Find out where to go here. And for inspiration, we turn to Andrew Sullivan. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

On Prop. 8, Californians Won’t Take ‘Yes’ for an Answer

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2008 Andrew Sullivan has words of encouragement for the protesters who've taken to the streets of California: "A word to those discouraged by last Tuesday: don't be. We will win because we're right. It's as simple as that. We are equal." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Wrong Again, Bill Kristol

Staff / Truthdig Oct 21, 2008 The New York Times' conservative stalwart William Kristol should receive some kind of award for being wrong with such baffling consistency while still retaining his job. Not only has he been credited (if that's the right word) with steering John McCain toward picking Sarah Palin and waving his proverbial pompoms for the Iraq invasion, but he has just let fly with another doozy in his latest column. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Waiting for Sarah

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2008 Andrew Sullivan is miffed that John McCain's No. 2 is still snubbing the media (and, by extension, the public): "It is now 24 days since she was announced as a potential president of the United States next January and she still hasn't given a news conference or has any plans to hold one. This black-out of all serious press access has never happened in modern American political history before." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Evangelicals Make War on Evolution

Staff / Truthdig Feb 7, 2007 This short documentary is perhaps as scary as it gets: Creationists indoctrinate children into believing that humans and dinosaurs coexisted a few thousand years ago. Want to see what this kind of indoctrination leads to? Read Andrew Sullivan describing why it's impossible for him to ever doubt the existence of God. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Finally! Sam Harris vs. Andrew Sullivan

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2007 Ladies and gentleman, the main event: The nation's most prominent atheist dukes it out with one of America's most eloquent defenders of faith. Check out the opening salvos in their "blogalogue" at Beliefnet or AndrewSullivan.com. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Weekly Video Roundup

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2006 This week, our assemblage of Truthdig favorites includes a finger-wagging hypocritical evangelist; Andrew Sullivan flatly stating that Bush has come unhinged; and goons of Va. Sen. George Allen attacking a blogger. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Andrew Sullivan: Bush Has ‘Lost His Mind’

Staff / Truthdig Nov 3, 2006 For Bush to say that Rumsfeld and Cheney have done a "fantastic" job "suggests this man has lost his mind I'm sorry There's no other way to say it" -- Andrew Sullivan in a joint interview with Chris Hitchens on CNN Brilliant stuff Watch it Read a fuller explanation on Sullivan's blog. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Weekly Video Roundup

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2006 This week's slew of Truthdig-flavored videos includes two (gasp!) conservatives: Andrew Sullivan and Dennis Miller. Please listen to what they have to say -- even if only to sharpen your debating skills. Also check out Robert Scheer on North Korea and Iran and Wolf Blitzer humiliating a GOP'er over Foleygate. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Andrew Sullivan on GOP Homosexuality and Hypocrisy

Staff / Truthdig Oct 13, 2006 Conservative blogger and gay activist Andrew Sullivan visited "The Colbert Report" to discuss the GOP's double standard when it comes to homosexuality: "They can't pretend to be tolerant in private, and intolerant in public. They're either going to have to purge all the gays from the Republican Party or they're going to start having to behave like grown-ups and treat us like human beings." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Andrew Sullivan: Bush’s Faith and Incompetence

Staff / Truthdig Aug 18, 2006 Andrew Sullivan has an interesting post on the fundamentalism that makes it impossible for Bush to ever change course: "Faith is to the new conservatism what ideology was to the old leftism: an unquestioned orthodoxy from which all policy flows". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who’s Serious Now?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2006 Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan sparked a lot of debate by writing recently that Dems aren't offering any alternatives to the GOP's failed method of fighting the so-called war on terror. Oh yeah? Some Dems beg to differ: A dead-on, serious response A wickedly satirical response Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )