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Turning Point USA seeks to "expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students" by publishing a list of almost 200 professors who, the nonprofit organization says, promote leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Allen Barra / TruthdigJul 22, 2016
If you’re looking for answers to our most baffling political problems (How can so much wealth go to the top 1 percent without a massive uprising? Why is the U.S. paralyzed in combating global warming?), then grab this book before amnesia on these issues becomes even more acute. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By John Feffer / TomDispatchJun 27, 2016
The real nightmare is likely to emerge in 2020 or thereafter, if and when a far more capable politician than Donald Trump embraces retrograde positions and rides an angry, wounded America into Washington. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
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By John TamplinJun 7, 2016
The all-too-common liberal reflex is out of touch and threatens to exacerbate the very intolerance and bigotry its practitioners oppose. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 21, 2016
The political pundit believes the tech company is not suppressing any political viewpoints, but he sees some troubling signs with the movement he loves. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 19, 2016
Led by media fearmongering and unimaginative leadership to believe Americans are helplessly divided, many liberals doubt an honest, respectful and sustained appeal to our shared interests can moderate the passions of our conservative neighbors. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 23, 2016
Conservative Louisiana Sheriff Newell Normand last month publicly criticized “that idiot,” former Gov. Bobby Jindal, saying he had led his state off a fiscal cliff, and the law enforcement official went on to admonish his fellow Republicans for following obstructionist leaders and resisting tax increases aimed at covering budget problems the Republican governor left behind. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 25, 2016
Right-wing political consultant Frank Luntz says the “hostility” of Americans age 18 to 26 to “the underpinnings of the American economy and the American government” should “frighten every business and political leader” and “excite activists for Sanders and, to a lesser degree, Clinton activists.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 17, 2016
“In many respects, we are witnessing the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections,” writes French economist Thomas Piketty, whose 2014 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” made inequality a respectable topic of conversation among professionals and beltway pundits. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Gabriel ThompsonNov 13, 2015
In her look at California labor disputes during the Depression, Kathryn Olmsted reveals a mirror reflected across eight decades: Even the government's most modest policies on behalf of the poor were met with hysteria by the right. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigNov 8, 2015
The other night I phoned a former GOP congressmen with whom I’d worked on legislation in the ’90s. I wanted his take on something: Are the presidential hopefuls really as weird as they seem? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigOct 31, 2015
For people who so often accuse Hillary Clinton of lying, the Republican presidential candidates seem to feel perfectly free to bend, twist and shred the truth at will. Unsurprisingly, that is just what several of them were caught doing in their free-for-all CNBC debate. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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