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Politics

The Impact of Trump’s First 100 Days on Full Display in New Mexico

Grace Panetta / The 19th Apr 30, 2025 In communities along the border, empty freezers, fired workers and fear tell a story of Trump’s return to power. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

‘Our People are Hungry’: Federal Food Aid Cuts in a Warming World

Ayurella Horn-Muller, Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Mar 18, 2025 The USDA’s decision to cut $1 billion in food aid is causing layoffs, supply shortfalls and the end of donations at charitable groups across the country — all as hunger continues to climb. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart Goes After Fox News for Attacking the Poor and Food Stamps

Staff / Truthdig Mar 15, 2014 Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Going Nuclear: An Environmentalist Makes the Case

Staff / Truthdig Nov 8, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The director of "Pandora's Promise" pitches nuclear power. Also: Bringing quality food to the poor, and bullying in sports. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America, by Way of the Antelope Valley

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Apr 22, 2011 Such areas contain the dispirited middle that Obama will have to win over to be re-elected, people whose struggles with daily life are so consuming that the national political debate over the budget and the deficit seems far away and irrelevant.Rather than a view of a candidate, the valley offers a view of the nation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Waking Up in the 1930s

Howie Stier / Truthdig Sep 3, 2010 In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line, and the neatly dressed, solidly middle class, once working folk who queue up are just becoming reconciled to a stark new reality.In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line, and the neatly dressed, solidly middle class folk who queue up are just becoming reconciled to a stark new reality. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Breadline USA

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2009 Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book about the millions of Americans who work 40 hours a week and still go hungry, "these forgotten families who are doing everything they've been told they need to do to survive and they're still being pushed backward by economic forces that they really don't control". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )