Ned Lamont, Insurgent

Staff / Truthdig Apr 26, 2006 The political neophyte at the center of the country's most-watched Senate primary race says it's the mainstream media that trivialize campaigns, while the blogs dig into issues Read the exclusive Truthdig interview. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

DailyKos Blogger Finds His Voice and Fends off Success

Staff / Truthdig Apr 6, 2006 The San Francisco Chronicle profiles the man behind DailyKos, the Internet's most popular liberal blog. He says the blog has earned him $80,000 a year--plus a book contract. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraqi Blogger Laments Rise of Clerics

Staff / Truthdig Apr 2, 2006 The young, UK-raised Iraqi dentist--whose writing has run in the Washington Post--says this in a recent blog: "Islamic clerics (of all denominations) never fail to disgust me(more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Washington Post GOP Blogger Resigns in Wake of Plagiarism Charges

Staff / Truthdig Mar 25, 2006 That didn't take long. Ben Domenech, the 24-year-old conservative blogger hired three days ago by the Washington Post, resigned after evidence surfaced that he plagiarized movie reviews before going to work for the Post. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Washington Post’s GOP Blogger Accused of Plagiarism

Staff / Truthdig Mar 24, 2006 The paper's new 24-year-old conservative blogger apparently cribbed movie reviews while in college, and may have fabricated a Tim Russert quote more recently. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Washington Post’s Conservative Blog Hire Draws Fire

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2006 The Washington Post recently hired conservative blogger Ben Domenech (of Redstate.com) to write a regular blog for the newspaper's website. The appointment drew immediate criticism, notably from conservative-turned-progressive writer David Brock, who questioned Domenech's journalism bona fides. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraqi Blogger Writes of Harrowing Existence

Staff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2006 The Washington Post ran a week's worth of postings by a young, UK-raised Iraqi dentist who describes the unnerving experience of living "between the hammer of terrorists and the anvil of American, British and Iraqi security forces." (Also, check out his blog, Healing Iraq, with his bio.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bloggers at the Gates

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2006 The New York Times' editorial page gives a big plug to "Crashing the Gates," the book on Internet-based political action, co-authored by the editor of the hugely popular blog DailyKos. The Times calls the book's criticism of clueless media consultants and self-defeating groups like NARAL "dead-on." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Troops Used as Props at GOP Functions

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2006 The White House is using active-duty US service personnel for partisan political purposes, a direct violation of military regulations, claims blogger Josh Marshall (here and here) Rep Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo) is pictured here introducing a soldier at a rally AMERICAblog connects more dots. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

White House Photo Agency Deletes Bush-Abramoff Pictures

Staff / Truthdig Jan 28, 2006 Blogger Josh Marshall discovers that official Republican photographers deleted pictures from their website of the president and the disgraced lobbyist. | post The Daily DeLay reports that the president of that photographic company is a Bush contributor. | post Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sounding Off on Bush’s Spy Program

Blair Golson / Truthdig Jan 3, 2006 An intense debate has been raging on Op-Ed pages and in the blogosphere over the legality of President Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program. What follows is a roundup of some of the most influential, talked-about and linked-to analyses. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Chicago Agonistes: The Plight of the L.A. Times

Steve Wasserman / Truthdig Nov 29, 2005 Under pressure from its Tribune Co. overseers, the paper will struggle to protect the journalistic excellence it took years to build. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )