Kasia Anderson / TruthdigOct 8, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin certainly knows his best angles and how to play to the camera, and he's staged many spectacles that stretch the outer limits of credulity in a series of memorable photo-ops since the global spotlight was first trained on him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigApr 17, 2014
The Republican Party faces a long-term challenge in presidential elections because it is defining itself as a gloomy enclave, a collection of pessimists who fear what our country is becoming and where it is going. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigJan 21, 2014
It was a bittersweet briefing that told us exactly where the Obama administration finds itself at the dawn of its sixth year. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchDec 23, 2013
Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutDec 5, 2013
The relentless activity of thoughtlessness -- worship of celebrity culture, a cravenly mainstream media, instrumentalism, militarism or free-roaming individualism -- undermines crucial social bonds and expands the alleged virtue of believing that thinking is a burden. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )
By Henry A Giroux, TruthoutSep 6, 2013
How might it be possible to imagine hope for a better world for humanity in a country that has sanctioned state torture, is about to bomb Syria and kill untold numbers of civilians, spies on its own citizens, extends the reach of the punishing state into all aspects of society, and inflicts violence on black and brown youths through racial profiling and the machinery of the mass incarceration state? Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 26, 2013
In the final installment of Chris Hedges' appearance on "Reality Asserts Itself" with Real News Network senior editor Paul Jay, viewers ask the Truthdig columnist questions, including about the American public's complicity in the crimes of empire, if there's any hope for Bradley Manning and whether the U.S. or Israel will attack Iran.In the final installment of his appearance on "Reality Asserts Itself," the Truthdig columnist took questions from viewers, including about the American public's complicity in the crimes of empire. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatchMay 22, 2013
The streets are much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. It’s 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatchMay 21, 2013
If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
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