How Donald Trump’s Trade Wars Could Lead to a Great Depression

Nomi Prins / TomDispatch Jun 24, 2018 If you make enemies out of your friends and friends out of your enemies, where does that leave you? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How the Trumpian Circus Benefits the Trumpian Project

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig May 1, 2018 If there are too many scandals to seize our attention, all of them taken together can allow unpopular policies to take root without scrutiny. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Cult of Trump

Paul Morantz / PaulMorantz.com Mar 31, 2018 The Oval Office has been turned into a circus sideshow. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Trade Wars and Diminished Credibility

Nomi Prins / Truthdig Mar 10, 2018 The U.S. remains in a precarious economic situation, as does the world. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Is U.S. Climate Policy Killing Capitalism?

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Jun 3, 2017 The president isn't responsible for taking the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord—it's the Koch brothers, Big Oil, Big Gas and Big Coal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Will Trump Repeat the Historic Chinese Exclusion Act Mistake?

By Judy Yung Apr 28, 2017 The president’s executive orders hurl America back to 1882, when Congress passed a law barring immigration based on a specific race and national origin. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

How Neocons Push for War by Cooking the Books

By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould Apr 25, 2017 To understand America’s drift into despotism over the last 40 years, we must de-encrypt the evolution of its secret "double government." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The Forgotten History of U.S. Deportations to Mexico in the 1930s (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2017 Francisco Balderrama, author and professor of American history and Chicano studies, explains why we must revisit this history in light of President Trump's immigration policy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Willie Nelson: A Long Story From Franklin Roosevelt to Donald Trump

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 20, 2017 In part one of a two-part conversation at his home in Hawaii, the musician tells Truthdig’s editor in chief that his upbringing during the Depression was an ideal childhood. Dig deeper ( 24 Min. Read )

How Do Today’s Struggles for Justice Differ From Those of the 1930s?

Staff / Truthdig Aug 18, 2016 Americans lack organized labor movements and a ruling class that feels even slightly obligated to protect workers and the poor, cultural critic Henry Giroux (pictured) tells Paul Jay of The Real News Network. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Politics

Chomsky: Trump’s Rise Is Due to the ‘Breakdown of Society’

By Aaron Williams / AlterNet Feb 24, 2016 MIT professor and intellectual Noam Chomsky compares the political environment that’s allowed Donald Trump to flourish with the Great Depression era of the 1930s, as “people feel isolated, helpless, victim of powerful forces that they do not understand and cannot influence.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Grace Lee Boggs: A Century of Grass-Roots Organizing

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Oct 8, 2015 She was not only a grass-roots organizer, but a philosopher, a teacher and a revolutionary. She devoted her life to empowering the poor, the working class and communities of color, and was deeply involved with a constellation of movements. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )