Staff / TruthdigJan 5, 2012
When it comes to the apocalypse, there's no such thing as a partial success. It's like being pregnant. So here are our choices: Either the world is going to end this year, as New Agey types believe by interpreting the ancient Mayan calendar through the lens of their "hippie consciousness-expanding nonsense," like this helpful clip puts it, or it's not. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 13, 2011
In a curious case of scrambled online identities, a 40-year-old American man has been outed as the writer of an attention-grabbing blog by the name of A Gay Girl in Damascus, which was supposedly written by a Syrian-American lesbian. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 11, 2010
An already fraught relationship between India and Pakistan got a bit more taut after a lapse of journalistic responsibility led several leading Pakistani papers to publish fabricated WikiLeaks cables that more resembled anti-Indian propaganda than diplomatic correspondence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Eugene Robinson / TruthdigFeb 19, 2010
We're the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can't be stupid. We're just pretending, right? We're not really taking seriously the "argument" that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence -- or even proof -- that climate change is some kind of hoax. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigOct 20, 2009
Now we know the answer to one of the vexing questions of the modern age: Evidently, there is nothing at all that some people won't do to get on television. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 31, 2008
Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old McCain campaign volunteer who admitted that she had made up her story about being mugged by a 6' 4" black man who carved a "B" into her face on Oct. 22, has been released from jail under the condition that she undergo psychiatric treatment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 8, 2008
In an extraordinary 633-word retraction, The Los Angeles Times has renounced an article it published last month that claimed to have new information about an attack in 1994 on rap artist Tupac Shakur, who later was killed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Yxta Maya Murray / TruthdigMar 5, 2008
The author who reviewed Margaret Seltzer's phony memoir for Truthdig responds to the hoax and answers the singular question raised by such a deception. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 29, 2006
Defense Tech notes that if Pyongyang really had loaded up all that fuel in the rocket 10 days ago, it would have eaten through the missile's casings by now. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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