TOM KRISHER / The Associated PressSep 13, 2019
United Auto Workers members could walk out of GM plants as early as Sunday—because union and company demands are so far apart. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
H. Patricia Hynes / TruthdigApr 5, 2019
A new book examines how corporate capitalism, through fossil fuel-based technology, has led the world to the point of destruction. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Carrie Rickey / TruthdigJul 27, 2017
Director Kathryn Bigelow turns the tragic events of July 1967 in Detroit into a tense suspense film. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 9, 2014
"The 'vulture' financier now threatening to devour Argentina can be stopped dead by a simple note to the courts from Barack Obama," investigative journalist Greg Palast writes Thursday at The Guardian. "But the president, while officially supporting Argentina, has not done this one thing that could save Buenos Aires from default." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Thomas Hedges / TruthdigJun 25, 2013
The nonprofit group The Center for Auto Safety says that Chrysler’s Jeep recall, which the car manufacturer finally agreed to June 18 after an ongoing battle with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is insufficient and will not fix the vehicle’s defect. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 28, 2012
How fitting that Dan Quayle, a bumbling excuse for a vice president of the United States, should end up as a top executive of a $20 billion private equity firm mired in controversy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 27, 2012
A new policy approved by the EPA will allow states to permit the sale of fuel that contains up to 15 percent ethanol, and the difference could damage your car. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigOct 31, 2012
Over the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job.” This is only the most recent in a stream of lies from Romney. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigOct 31, 2012
A look at the day's political happenings, including Mitt Romney's latest campaign deception and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offering praise for President Obama. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 6, 2012
Those who caught the Super Bowl broadcast Sunday might have heard Clint Eastwood's gravelly growl emanating from their sets during one of the big game's coveted ad breaks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 16, 2011
President Obama went over to Toledo, Ohio, to thank the workers at a Chrysler plant for the bailed-out auto industry's newfound profitability, but, as this video attests, the workers of that community are not feeling the love from Obama's corporate welfare. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Aram Sinnreich / TruthdigFeb 10, 2011
The Super Bowl commercial is a shell game. Detroit’s pain isn’t the result of some existential crisis of faith, but a direct consequence of the amoral, profit-seeking behaviors of Chrysler itself.Unlike most of the Super Bowl's 111 million viewers, judging by the effusive tidal wave of tweeted praise that attended its airing, I did not love the new Chrysler ad. In fact, I hated it. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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