Living in a Country Where Credibility Is Ancient History

Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Jan 10, 2019 Eroding the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy is a key feature of the Trumpian moment. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch May 26, 2017 As we struggle to keep up with the administration’s shifting explanations, it is difficult to remember the events of yesterday, let alone last week or last month. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Media Coverage Has Created a New Crisis of Credibility

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 19, 2016 Almost 50 years after former Vice President Spiro Agnew launched a conservative campaign against the press, our journalistic institutions are being challenged for being too hard on Hillary Clinton and too timid toward the right in the 2016 election. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Brian Williams Admits He Got Iraq Combat Story Wrong

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Feb 6, 2015 The veteran "NBC Nightly News" anchor conceded that a story he told on various occasions about being under fire while on assignment in Iraq in 2003 was not accurate. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Strauss-Kahn Is Freed From House Arrest

Staff / Truthdig Jul 1, 2011 A state Supreme Court justice in Manhattan officially released Dominique Strauss-Kahn from house arrest Friday after hearing that prosecutors have serious issues with the hotel housekeeper whose credibility has been, until now, the cornerstone of their case. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Homework Czar

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig May 21, 2007 Dig deeper

Last Throes of Cheney’s Credibility

Joe Conason / Truthdig Mar 1, 2007 While Americans grow increasingly frustrated with the Democrats for failing to end the Iraq fiasco (after a whopping two months), the vice president, one of the war's chief architects, spent the week doing away with the last shred of a possibility that he either knows what he's talking about or is telling the truth. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Luckovich: Even Barney Won’t Bite

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Feb 17, 2007 Dig deeper