American History for Truthdiggers: Nixon’s Dark Legacy

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig May 18, 2019 The president who arguably was the most corrupt in U.S. history lost the Watergate battle but won in his bid to lock U.S. politics on a rightward course. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: Vietnam, a U.S. Tragedy

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Apr 20, 2019 Our military intervention there in the 1960s and ’70s cost 58,000 U.S. lives and created a gash in our nation's psyche that never healed. Dig deeper ( 27 Min. Read )

The Green New Deal Is Indeed a Big Deal

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Feb 14, 2019 Despite being attacked from many sides so soon after it was introduced, the proposed program may be our best hope out of a climate and economic quagmire. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Capitalism Is Beyond Saving, and America Is Living Proof

Jacob Bacharach / Truthdig Aug 31, 2018 In one of the most prosperous societies ever to exist on earth, nearly half the population struggles to make ends meet. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer-Winning Reporter and Conservative Pundit, Dies at 68

HILLEL ITALIE / The Associated Press Jun 21, 2018 The commentator, a prominent figure at Fox News and a columnist at The Washington Post, had been treated for a cancerous tumor and announced recently he had only weeks to live. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dan Rather: ‘Wealth Can Never Be a Measure of Worth’

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Dec 5, 2017 The veteran journalist shares his thoughts on the Republican tax bill and class warfare in our "age of unreason." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The ‘Two-Party Racket’ Is Incapable of Dealing With Our Present Crises

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 27, 2016 "The Green New Deal is a vision of how we can improve the lives of millions of people and rescue the planet from climate chaos," writes Green Party media coordinator Scott McLarty. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Why There’s No Outcry for a Revolution in America

Robert Reich / Truthdig Jan 27, 2014 Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor are swelling, almost all the economic gains are going to the top, and big money is corrupting our democracy. So why isn’t there more of a ruckus? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Aug 5, 2011 Obama's Eisenhower nostalgia is troubling. That was half a century ago—before the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and federal aid to education. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Oct 5, 2009 The hawks urging President Obama to escalate the war in Afghanistan have no interest in his domestic policy The 20th century is a graveyard of good ideas that lost out to war. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )