Thomas Frank: What’s the Matter With Democrats?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The "What's the Matter With Kansas?" author says Democrats blow off right-wing populism and "walk right into the buzz saw every time." Also: what to expect when you're expecting a Republican Senate, and Silicon Valley's take on indentured servitude. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Malaysian Airliner

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Spend Independence Day with Pete Seeger and Frederick Douglass

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 4, 2014 This Fourth of July, "Democracy Now!" remembers Frederick Douglass' defiant Independence Day address, read by James Earl Jones during a performance of Howard Zinn’s "Voices of a People’s History of the United States," and the life and legacy of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, who died this year at the age of 94. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Daniel Berrigan

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Happy Birthday, Howard Zinn

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 24, 2012 The beloved historian, social activist and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” would have turned 90 years old on Friday. "Democracy Now!" remembers Zinn with clips from speeches he gave near the end of his life. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Speaking Truth on the Fifth of July

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 20, 2012 "Why it is so hard to tell the truth today?" I asked Vietnam veteran and anti-war hero Ron Kovic one summer night over drinks in midtown Manhattan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

America’s Street Priest

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 11, 2012 Daniel Berrigan, undaunted at 92 and full of the fire that makes him one of this nation’s most courageous voices, says there is one place where those who care about justice need to be -- in the streets.Daniel Berrigan, undaunted at 92 and still full of fire, says there is one place where those who care about justice need to be—in the streets. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Columbus, Marx and Zinn Go to Bolivia

Richard Schickel / Truthdig Feb 22, 2011 What is ironically fictional in "Even the Rain's" story is the intrusion on a volatile situation of a film crew intent on portraying Christopher Columbus’ not entirely benign arrival in the New World. What is ironically fictional in "Even the Rain's" story is the intrusion on a volatile situation of a film crew intent on portraying Columbus’ not entirely benign arrival in the New World. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Mad in America

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 4, 2011 What do we have now? An anti-war movement that is so gutless and so savagely unimaginative that it has proved itself to be too lazy, even too cowardly, to face down the very disease of oligarchy that it had concocted itself to cure.It is a queer fact, indeed, that none of the most outspoken and anti-authoritarian radicals in this country are under 65 years old. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Rep. Grayson vs. the Tea Party

Staff / Truthdig Aug 25, 2010 Florida's Rep Alan Grayson, the freshman congressman from the substantially conservative Orlando area, has already managed to make a name for himself over the course of his first two years in office by (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 2, 2010 By the end of Howard Zinn's 423-page FBI file one walks away with a profound respect for the historian and a deep distaste for the buffoonish goons in the FBI who followed and monitored him. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Mr. Fish in Conversation With Graham Nash

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 3, 2010 I'd gone to Atlantic City in August of 2009 to see Crosby, Stills and Nash to be reminded of the exquisite outrage that they, along with Neil Young, had so famously hurled into the hellish maelstrom that was the Vietnam War. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )