Paul Ryan’s Entire Career Was a Cash Grab for Billionaires

Peter Certo / OtherWords Dec 23, 2018 The outgoing House speaker is a villain, and no one will miss him. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sugar for Wall Street Daddies, Austerity for the Rest of Us

Teodrose Fikre / Truthdig May 21, 2018 Look at the latest farm bill winding its way through Congress. America has been indentured by multinational corporations. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

GMO Monster

Petar Pismestrovic, Cagle Cartoons, Kleine Zeitung, Austria Feb 14, 2014 Dig deeper

Congress Suffers From Selective Deficit Disorder

David Sirota / Truthdig Feb 8, 2014 The same farm bill that cuts food stamps by $8 billion could increase subsidies to wealthy farmers and agribusinesses by $15 billion. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Agribiz

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Feb 6, 2014 Dig deeper

GOP Food Stamp Cuts Help the Rich, Hurt the Poor and Starve the Economy

BLANK Nov 19, 2013 As part of the New York Times series on “The Great Divide,” Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz dives into the pernicious link between campaign money, farm subsidies and starving Americans. It doesn’t speak well of us as a nation, or a political system. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Want Food Stamps? Become a Massive Corporation, Says Stephen Colbert

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2013 "The Colbert Report" host has figured out a solution to how poor Americans needing food stamps can get them back after the program was removed from the GOP-controlled House's recently passed farm bill. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Ranks 27th in Health Care

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2013 Despite arguments that privatization makes the American health system the best, 26 other countries' are better; it's no coincidence there are more large earthquakes occurring as drilling has increased; meanwhile, artist Nickolay Lamm shows us what a real, healthy Barbie would look like with his latest work. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How the GOP Takes ‘Glee in Inflicting Further Suffering’ on the Miserable

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 15, 2013 The latest criticism of the Republican Party launched by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman centers around the "monstrous" farm bill that passed through the GOP-controlled House last week. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Playing Chicken

Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill Jul 15, 2013 Dig deeper

NSA Scandal: Why Aren’t Democrats Acting Like Democrats?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Republicans shred food stamps and Democrats retreat from principle. Plus: Sexual assault in Egypt, and Bradley Manning. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Boehner’s House Implodes

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jun 24, 2013 The roof fell in on John Boehner's House of Representatives last week. The Republican leadership's humiliating defeat on a deeply flawed and inhumane farm bill was as clear a lesson as we'll get about the real causes of dysfunction in the nation's capital. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )