The 10 Best Chris Hedges Columns of 2018

Staff / Truthdig Dec 26, 2018 This is just one of many possible ways to showcase the Truthdig columnist's most impactful stories of the year—have a look to see how your picks line up with ours. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer-Winning Reporter and Conservative Pundit, Dies at 68

HILLEL ITALIE / The Associated Press Jun 21, 2018 The commentator, a prominent figure at Fox News and a columnist at The Washington Post, had been treated for a cancerous tumor and announced recently he had only weeks to live. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dear Bill Clinton: The End of Welfare Isn’t the End of Poor People

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 22, 2016 Isn't it great how we solved the welfare problem? That's the one thing that former President Clinton, Congress and even the media agree on. Isn't it great how we solved the welfare problem? That's the one thing that former President Clinton, Congress and even the media agree on. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Bill Clinton Waged a War on Welfare Mothers Instead of a War on Poverty

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 22, 2016 To hear Clinton tell it, his presidency won the war on poverty three decades after Lyndon B. Johnson launched it, having changed only the name. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Why Did The Guardian Hire Josh Trevino?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 21, 2012 Readers of The Guardian are up in arms over the addition of former George W. Bush speechwriter Joshua Trevino to the historically liberal newspaper’s American staff. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer Wins Prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2012 Truthdig's editor-in-chief has taken top honors in the Online Column Writing (Independent) category. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

National Review Columnist: Women’s Suffrage Bad for Conservatism, Society

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2009 Conservatives seek to preserve old-timey traditions and values when it comes to many social issues, but National Review columnist John Derbyshire apparently wants to set women back at least 100 years with his curious statement, teased out by progressive radio host Thom Hartmann, that women's suffrage isn't good for the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Yoo’s Views Make Philly News

Amy Goodman / Truthdig May 20, 2009 The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of that city's two major daily newspapers, is in the news itself these days after hiring controversial former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo as a monthly columnist. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Peggy Noonan on Palin: ‘It’s Over’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 4, 2008 The hot mike phenomenon continues to yield fruit. Here Peggy Noonan and former McCain strategist Mike Murphy lament the Palin pick, while they think no one is listening. As Taegan Goddard points out, Noonan contradicts her own column with the statement, "It's over." Update 2: Noonan strikes back Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

News Coverage of Iraq War Plummets

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2008 If ever there was required reading, this article by Sherry Ricchiardi in the American Journalism Review would be it. News coverage about the Iraq war, whether measured in column inches or broadcast minutes, by American news outlets is becoming a mere blip on the proverbial radar, even as lives and resources are still lost every day. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sirota Takes On Colbert … or Is It the Other Way Around?

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2008 Author and columnist David Sirota braves the Colbert treatment to talk about his (Sirota's) latest book, "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington," and to brazenly assert that, "People are angry with the status quo -- they think the establishment isn't working for them, and frankly, it's not." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Castro Slams Obama

Staff / Truthdig May 27, 2008 Semi-retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro thinks Barack Obama is "the most-advanced candidate in the presidential race," so he must have been disappointed to hear that Obama would continue an embargo against the island nation. That policy, Castro wrote in a column that appeared in state newspapers, is "a formula for hunger for [Cuba]." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )