David Sirota / TruthdigMay 21, 2010
If progressive groups were anything but shills for the Democrats, they would be protesting President Obama's Supreme Court nominee and demanding the firing of his interior secretary. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 20, 2010
Chinese swingers head to jail, Australia hunts down and grounds the founder of WikiLeaks, and David Lynch does Dior. All this and more on today's list. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Ruth Marcus / TruthdigMay 16, 2010
She's not gay, OK? Actually, the all-too-public discussion about the ought-to-be private topic of Elena Kagan's sexuality would be easier if the Supreme Court nominee were gay. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Andy Borowitz / TruthdigMay 16, 2010
"The American people have had years of watching Paula's judging expertise, and they know that she is fair," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "She's certainly fairer than Simon." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 15, 2010
How best to deal with the mess Big Oil has wrought this past week? "We need a time out for greed," Robert Scheer says on this week's "Left, Right & Center," but Tony Blankley disagrees. Meanwhile, Arianna Huffington isn't buying President Obama's knuckle-rapping stance toward oil execs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 14, 2010
On Thursday, Supreme Court hopeful Elena Kagan observed the nominee tradition of making the rounds on Capitol Hill by dropping in on key senators from both sides of the aisle, and it seems she made some key gains -- even Scott Brown might vote to confirm her! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigMay 13, 2010
Brace yourself for several months of occasionally biting but essentially meaningless political theater over the nomination of Solicitor General Kagan to the Supreme Court. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigMay 13, 2010
The Kagan nomination reminds us that Barack Obama is the first president raised on feminist principles. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 13, 2010
Since conservative pundits are slacking in their duty of tearing apart Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan before she can clinch her lifetime position, Stephen Colbert is on hand to step in and grasp at straws, literally, in an effort to besmirch her sparkling reputation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Ruth Marcus / TruthdigMay 13, 2010
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has -- or had, anyway -- the right vision of what confirmation hearings for the high court should be. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 11, 2010
Famed gay blogger Andrew Sullivan wants to know why no one else is publicly asking whether husbandless Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan likes girls even though "we have been told by many that she is gay." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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