This holiday weekend, there’s no telling what might happen. Let’s hope it’s just a calm vacation that doesn’t have any surprises in store for democracy.
In the section of the Declaration of Independence on grievances, there are a number of paragraphs that resonate with today’s politics.
Scientists are looking in odd places to treat illnesses such as cancer; a new book says the upper middle class is contributing to inequality.
This impassioned, timely memoir about the American Veterans Movement picks up where author Ron Kovic's "Born on the Fourth of July" left off.
The radio host's decision to retire from his show "A Prairie Home Companion" on the Fourth of July weekend was likely calculated to extenuate his presumed ties to all things Americana, but it also highlighted his hypocrisies and contradictions.
On the day when the United States was first conceived in rebellion against deprivation of God-given rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, it is worth remarking on our political season.
The long-imprisoned revolutionary and author, who disdains the current political theater, says the broken, racist American system "has to be torn up, root and branch," to halt the war waged on the poor by the corporate state.
We hear a lot about patriotism, especially around the Fourth of July. But in 2016 we’re hearing about two very different types of patriotism.
On a special Fourth of July episode, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists debate the importance of symbolism. Should the Confederate flag be removed from government property and the sale of anything bearing its image be ended?
Your Fourth of July is invasions and wars. Mine is the pure sunbeam of peace.
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