E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigOct 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 )
Staff / TruthdigApr 29, 2009
Cliff May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, was clearly on the defensive as he took the hot seat during Tuesday's "Daily Show" with the unenviable task of debating whether or not waterboarding is torture, whether American officials have to follow the Geneva Conventions under all circumstances, and whether President Truman was a war criminal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigJan 14, 2009
Fifty million Americans are without health insurance, and 25 million are "underinsured." Millions being laid off will soon be added to those rolls. At this perilous moment, we need sweeping New Deal-caliber changes, not the impotent tinkering that has been proposed. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Andrew Gumbel / TruthdigNov 14, 2008
Let me describe what happened in my interview with Gore Vidal for Vanity Fair's Spanish edition and why I felt compelled to report what was, in my experience, the single most shockingly racist line of the 2008 presidential election campaign. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Arthur Blaustein / TruthdigOct 7, 2008
Many Americans believe, despite the current financial crisis, that Republicans are generally better at managing the economy. History tells a very different story. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 27, 2007
According to recently declassified documents, infamous FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover presented President Harry Truman with a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 people, mostly Americans, of whom he disapproved. The year was 1950 and the occasion was the start of the Korean War, but Hoover had apparently been building his list of the "potentially dangerous" for years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 12, 2007
Judging by the senator's voting record and her position on matters of international law and human rights, political scholar Stephen Zunes believes Hillary Clinton is poised to carry on the legacy of a certain prior occupant of the White House if she's elected next November -- and it's not the one you might think. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigAug 8, 2007
During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 12, 2006
Speaking from the Truman Library in his last speech as UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan excoriated the United States for abusing its power in the world community: "No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over others"
Read the speech. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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