Teaching Civic Skills and Action Should Be Standard in Schools

Ralph Nader / Truthdig Aug 9, 2017 Students are best prepared for a life of democratic citizenship when they study real-world applications close to home. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Illuminating the Darkness in the Age of Despair

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2017 In a U.K. commencement speech, the author urges grads to "confront the poisonous authoritarianism that is emerging in many countries today." (Pictured, an anti-Trump march in London.) Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Where Free Speech Ends, Ignorance Begins

By Michael Winship / Moyers & Company Mar 15, 2017 Recent attempts to quash the freedom to speak reflect the know-nothing intolerance afflicting this nation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Manning and the Gangster State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 18, 2017 In a column originally posted on Aug. 21, 2013, Chris Hedges declares that the whistleblower's original 35-year sentence "means the end of the rule of law." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Bearing the Cross

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 9, 2016 The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, whose funeral was held Friday in New York, exemplified the radical call of the Christian Gospels to defy the laws of the state for the laws of God. If we seek salvation, for our nation and for ourselves, we must find his courage and his faith. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: The Late Daniel Berrigan, Lifelong Activist for Peace

BLANK May 7, 2016 From the dark days of Vietnam to the endless wars of today, the Jesuit priest-poet remained faithful to his mission: protecting the vulnerable, championing resistance and always, always working toward peace. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Remembering the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit Priest and Peace Activist

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2016 He was a man of the cloth and a man of letters, but most of all, Berrigan was a man of peace. He was also, as it happened, the man whom Kurt Vonnegut went so far as to call "Jesus as a poet." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire

By Howard Zinn, TomDispatch Oct 5, 2015 The idea that the United States was an empire did not occur to me until after I finished my work as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force in the Second World War and came home. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 8, 2015 Repulsed by tales of U.S. atrocities told by veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Spc. Robert Weilbacher applied for and was granted conscientious objector status. Then the Pentagon pulled a fast one, leaving him trapped in a hypermasculine dystopia. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Pleading Guilty (to Insubordination)

By Howard Zinn and Paula J. Giddings, TomDispatch Mar 25, 2015 In the current age of “lean-in” feminism at one end of the spectrum and an “anti-respectability” discourse at the other, an essay by Howard Zinn reminds us of an earlier meaning of women’s liberation. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Howard Zinn: Have a More Interesting Life

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Feb 5, 2015 The late historian, who studied injustice and action through the centuries, offers this wonderful insight. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Viggo Mortensen Marks 10 Years of Zinn’s ‘Voices of a People’s History’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 23, 2014 Actors including Viggo Mortensen, Peter Sarsgaard and Kelly Macdonald gathered in New York on Friday, the 10th anniversary of the publication of "Voices of a People’s History of the United States" -- a work based on the late historian Howard Zinn’s million-title selling book "A People’s History of the United States" -- for a reading of "Voices." Mortensen spoke with "Democracy Now!" about "history's corporate takeover[s]." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )