Important News: Hormone Spray Makes Men Go All Cuddly

Staff / Truthdig Apr 30, 2010 It's an age-old complaint, at least judging by the highly scientific content found in women's magazines: Men just aren't snuggly enough and, what's more, they don't empathize enough either. Hmph! But a hormone-laced nasal spray might change all that for the better. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

In Praise of Empathy

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig May 21, 2009 So it is that I am watching the run-up to the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice with eyes wide open. We've already had pre-emptive strikes against three women on the media short list. Elena Kagan, Diane Wood and Sonia Sotomayor are getting the scary radical treatment without even getting picked. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Double-Flipping on ‘Identity Politics’

Marie Cocco / Truthdig May 5, 2009 In my nearly two decades of covering New York's irrepressible Alfonse M. D'Amato, agreement between us was, to put it politely, rare. Yet there was one extraordinary moment when good governance and good politics collided to bring me into alliance with the former senator. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Not With a Bang but a Twitter

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2009 Can plugging into online social networks via Twitter or Facebook lead to some kind of computer-aided moral decline en masse? A study out of the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute seems to suggest that this may be an imminent side effect of living in information-overloaded societies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The World as It Is

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 10, 2008 War creates a world without empathy. Those who have empathy cannot, as did Palestinian gunman Alaa Hisham Abu Dheim, coldly murder students in a Jerusalem library. Those who have empathy cannot drop tons of iron fragmentation bombs on crowded Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza, killing more than 120 Palestinians in a week, of whom one in five were children and more than half were civilians. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Next Quagmire

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Sep 3, 2007 By all indications, the United States is about to attack Iran. Expect a regional catastrophe to follow, propelled by impotent diplomacy and inane media. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )