Books
Books
Books
‘Blue Collar Empire’: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
May 16, 2025 Historian Jeff Schuhrke documents the AFL-CIO’s role in weakening left-wing labor unions around the world between the '40s and '90s.
Politics
JFK Wanted To Dismantle the CIA. Why Didn’t He?
Mar 28, 2025 Piecing together newly unredacted files and personal accounts, we know now there was a powerful shift against the agency's 'rogue autonomy.' Until there wasn't.
Media
20 Years After His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Dec 30, 2024 Two decades after Webb’s death, the U.S. government hasn’t kicked the habit of wreaking lethal havoc at home and abroad.
TD Interview
Sixty Years After JFK’s Assassination, Oliver Stone Reflects
Nov 21, 2023 The director of “JFK” on the Kennedy cover-up, why he was killed, and what the country—and the world—suffered as a result.2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: Second Place, Personality Profile, Film Personalities, Online
Ear to the Ground
The Creeper Intelligence Agency
Aug 25, 2023 Reports of rampant sexual abuse pile up at Langley headquarters.
TD Interview
After the Coup: An Interview With Peter Kornbluh, Part II
Jul 11, 2023 How Kissinger and the CIA bolstered the regime of Augusto Pinochet for years—until they couldn’t.
TD Original
Kissinger and the CIA in Chile: An Interview With Peter Kornbluh, Part I
Jul 6, 2023 A comprehensive review of the U.S. role in the 1973 coup of Salvador Allende and its aftermath.
Trump’s Afghanistan Deal Has Nothing to Do With Peace
Mar 5, 2020 A closer look at the Trump administration's agreement with the Taliban reveals all the president's concerned with is bragging rights.
Chris Hedges: Assange’s Trial Echoes Stalinist Tactics
Mar 2, 2020 In a new episode of "On Contact," the Truthdig columnist argues that Britain and the U.S. are "mocking the very concept of the rule of law."
They Came First for Assange
Feb 28, 2020 The U.S. government has labeled a journalist and publisher an "enemy of the people." Anyone familiar with history knows how this story ends.