Robert Scheer / TruthdigMar 30, 2019
Author Tony Platt explains how mass incarceration has allowed Republicans and Democrats alike to demonize large swaths of American society. Dig deeper ( 27 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigDec 8, 2016
Beneath populist pretense and slander, the coming Trump presidency is shaping up as a great monument to the nation’s unelected dictatorship of money. The only real mystery is how far it will deliver on its reactionary promises. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 7, 2015
In The New York Times in late June, George Packer smeared Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges' new book, "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt." In this Truthdig column published in early 2013, Hedges describes Packer as an intellectual "war booster" and “liberal hawk” whose support for the Iraq War preserved his journalism career.The self-defined liberals who sold us the Iraq War remain in their positions of privilege and power, and they stand ready to sell us out again. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigSep 12, 2014
If Hillary Clinton's latest book, “Hard Choices,” was not an obvious enough sign of her presidential aspirations, then her recent Washington Post review of Henry Kissinger's new book, “World Order,” seems to have sealed the deal. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigAug 2, 2014
Back when the warmongers had hopes of ginning up a war between the United States and Iran during the Bush administration, one of their propaganda talking points was the Iran had “threatened to wipe Israel off the map.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 3, 2013
After his talk on the myth of human progress, the Truthdig columnist discussed the influence of religion on his work and why he views Christian conservatives as heretics.The Truthdig columnist discusses the influence of religion on his work and why he views Christian conservatives as heretics. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 24, 2013
With the onset of the Iraq invasion, there was an abrupt change not just in Hitchens’ tone, but in his authorial voice. Hitchens emerged a convinced American nationalist, deploying a full tonal diapason -- from hysteria to triumphalism, with the scale calibrated by braggadocio. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 24, 2013
The dead, God-bashing, celebrity litterateur is the target of a new book that seeks to yank him down from the vaunted heights from which he shilled for the American empire and defamed its opponents, writes Gregory Shupak at In These Times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 13, 2012
Nobody fights better than writers, so it's a little sad that novelists Salman Rushdie and John le Carré have agreed to stop hating each other. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 1, 2012
“Mortality,” Jeff Sharlet writes of the late Christopher Hitchens’ small, posthumously published book of essays, composed while the author was dying of cancer, is death-writing “at its most generous and most human: just another man dying, making a joke and telling a story.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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