Political Moral Hazard

David Sirota / Truthdig Dec 11, 2009 Without consequences -- or worse, with rewards -- for wrongdoing, there is an incentive to do wrong. One need look no further than Wall Street and Washington, D.C. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Colbert Conservatives and Military Waste

David Sirota / Truthdig Nov 26, 2009 Every American will spend $2,700 on the military next year and the Pentagon "lost" at least $1 trillion, but how dare you criticize the military? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

David Sirota / Truthdig Nov 20, 2009 Any hope that we aren’t turning into a full-on slobbering idiocracy was snuffed out last week by two of the Washington intelligentsia's most respected voices.Once again the chattering class is beating the drums of war. Will we ever learn? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

David Sirota / Truthdig Nov 13, 2009 Save $110 billion, or spend $6.3 trillion? In recent months, tea party protesters and Congress' so-called fiscal conservatives chose the latter. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

David Sirota / Truthdig Nov 6, 2009 The rules governing what we buy and sell are now playing such a decisive role in almost every major policy that we ignore them at our peril. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TARP on Steroids

David Sirota / Truthdig Oct 30, 2009 The former financial executives inside the Obama administration have labeled their bill the "Financial Stability Improvement Act," but it's more like the 9/11 of bailouts.The former financial executives inside the Obama administration call it the "Financial Stability Improvement Act," but it's more like the 9/11 of bailouts. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Tale of Two Supermen — and Their Drugs

David Sirota / Truthdig Oct 23, 2009 We can look to two superjocks -- Lance Armstrong and Michael Phelps -- for the key lesson about our absurd drug policy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The House That Taxpayers Built

David Sirota / Truthdig May 22, 2009 Somewhere, likely in a basement, the next great documentarian is scavenging YouTube for clips of congressional inquisitions, Wall Street perp walks, and CNBC rants for a future Oscar-winning film about the times we're living through. I'm hoping this future star calls her film "Wall Street II: Cataclysmic Boogaloo," and more importantly, I'm hoping she gets footage of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, preferably wearing a top hat and monocle. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Health Care’s Enigma in Chief

David Sirota / Truthdig May 16, 2009 The most stunning and least reported news about President Obama's press conference with health industry executives this week wasn't those executives' willingness to negotiate with a Democrat. It was that Democrat's eagerness to involve those executives in a discussion about health care reform even as they revealed their previous plans to pilfer $2 trillion from Americans. Dig deeper ( 3 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 )