TD Column

Platner’s Imperfections

Jeb Lund / Truthdig Jun 8, 2026 The oyster farmer is a muscled Homer Simpson — the blunderingly caring lummox doing his best, whom we’re culturally predisposed to hug and forgive while he figures it all out. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Opinion

Did the Democrats Sabotage Graham Platner?

Freddie deBoer / Truthdig Jun 8, 2026 Strip away the moralizing and the sequence is obvious: an inconvenient insurgent, internal material weaponized by his own side, a Republican-linked source and a calendar tuned to a removal-and-replace statute. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )