How Hillary Clinton’s Goldman Sachs Speeches Cost Her the 2016 Election

By Joe Lauria Jul 4, 2017 Between April 2013 and March 2015, she gave 91 paid speeches averaging $235,000 apiece, for a total of $21,648,000. This excerpt from "How I Lost" spotlights three of those talks. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

Two Views on Trump and the Israel Reality

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2017 Can Donald Trump bring peace to the Middle East? Author Yoav Litvin and Tom Dine, former head of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, examine the possibility. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Trump Seems to Think Americans Have Forgotten What They Lost in 2008 (Video)

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org May 3, 2017 The president has ordered a rollback of Wall Street regulations, including the Dodd-Frank Act, passed in 2010 to prevent another too-big-to-fail banking crisis. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Trump’s Tax Plan Draws Immediate Criticism From Progressives

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams Apr 27, 2017 The plan prompts allegations of conflicts of interest and excessive benefits to the wealthy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Seem to Have Learned a Thing From the Past Year

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Apr 26, 2017 With Steve Bannon on the way out, official Washington is jumping for joy that Gary Cohn (pictured)—former president of Goldman Sachs—seems to be taking over Trump’s brain. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Wall Street Wrongdoing May Go Unpunished With Trump’s Pick to Lead the SEC (Video)

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Apr 18, 2017 Jay Clayton represented big banks and corporations as a law partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. At the Securities and Exchange Commission, he will be expected to police such companies. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Checklist for Trump Voters

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Apr 11, 2017 Here are some of the many things the president said during his campaign and hasn't followed through on. Here are some of the many things the president said during his campaign and hasn't followed through on. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Julian Assange Accuses Democrats of McCarthyism, Maintains Russia Was Not WikiLeaks’ Source (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Apr 10, 2017 The founder of WikiLeaks discusses his organization's role in the 2016 election, America's current political climate and more in a Democracy Now! interview. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

National Insecurity

By Rajan Menon / TomDispatch Mar 31, 2017 Voters drawn to Donald Trump because they believed he would rein in interventionism abroad and deal with festering problems at home are in for a disappointment. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

‘Goldmanizing’ Donald Trump

By Nomi Prins / TomDispatch Jan 30, 2017 Two former Goldman Sachs executives (pictured, Gary Cohn)—along with the Federal Reserve—are likely to control our economy and financial system in the years to come. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Defying Donald Trump’s Kleptocracy

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 2, 2017 The president-elect represents the late stage of capitalism, when corporations, no longer able to generate profits at former levels, pillage the government and society for profit. However, he will be vulnerable to impeachment if we take to the streets. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Continues the Manipulation of Populism by ‘Swamping Up’ His Path to Power

Paul Street / Truthdig Dec 8, 2016 Beneath populist pretense and slander, the coming Trump presidency is shaping up as a great monument to the nation’s unelected dictatorship of money. The only real mystery is how far it will deliver on its reactionary promises. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )