Opinion

This MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons From History

Svante Myrick / Other Words Jan 16, 2023 Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s right. That takes all of us. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Politics

How the West Was Won With Mussolini

Paul Corner / History News Network Dec 22, 2022 Between fake news, amnesia and removal, the real picture of Italian Fascism under Mussolini can never emerge. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Interviews

Ken Burns’ Other Lens

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Dec 16, 2022 America’s most famous visual storyteller shifts gears in a new book. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Politics

Why Doesn’t the Cherokee Nation Have a Delegate to Congress?

Julie Reed / High Country News Dec 15, 2022 In 2022, the Cherokee Nation is asking for Congress to seat its delegate, as the Treaty of 1835 requires. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Race

Genetics and Racial Mythmaking

Ashley Smart / Undark Magazine Dec 12, 2022 As its findings are twisted to support racial violence, genetics is a field at the crossroads. Dig deeper ( 24 Min. Read )

Music

Make the Blues America’s National Anthem

Richard Heinberg / Resilience.org Dec 2, 2022 The blues is America’s music — and who likes the “Star-Spangled Banner” anyway? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Trumps Had No Right to Visit the Taj Mahal

Juan Cole / Truthdig Feb 25, 2020 Why should a known islamophobe be allowed to visit one of the most magnificent products of Indo-Muslim architecture? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Remembering My Hero, Howard Zinn

Daniel Ellsberg / Truthdig Jan 27, 2020 On the 10-year anniversary of his death, we revisit a piece by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about his close friend and role model.  Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

America’s Dangerous Inheritance From World War I

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Jan 21, 2020 The U.S. war on the free press, free speech, and dissent more generally, are all rooted in the so-called "Good War." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

What MLK Would Make of the Israeli Occupation

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jan 20, 2020 To predict what the civil rights hero would think of Israel's treatment of Palestinians, recall his take on South African apartheid. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How Democracies Die

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 13, 2020 The United States' descent toward tyranny mirrors the experience of Germany and Italy in the 1930s. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Time For a New Christmas Truce

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Dec 25, 2019 During World War I, men on both sides defied their leaders and respective nations, if only for a moment. Let it be a lesson in 2019. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )