Politics

R.I.P No Labels, the Renegade Faction of the Centrist Elite

Daniel Schlozman / n+1 May 23, 2024 The group’s downfall is to be celebrated, but the deeper longings and forces it embodied will live on. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Pete Buttigieg Is the Past

Paul Blest Oct 16, 2019 He may be the youngest candidate in the race, but as Tuesday’s debate made clear, the mayor's politics are as cynical as they are stale. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Trump Will Be a Nightmare Client for His Legal Dream Team

Bill Blum / Truthdig May 30, 2017 Even the best defense attorneys may not be able to save the president from himself. (Marc Kasowitz, Donald Trump's longtime attorney, is pictured.) Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

‘My Party Has Lost Its Soul’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 28, 2014 In a Salon review Sunday of Ralph Nader's spring 2014 book "Unstoppable," Bill Curry, former White House counselor to President Bill Clinton, takes Democrats led by Clinton and Barack Obama to task for making their party an indentured servant of Wall Street and gifting economic populism to the right. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Feinstein to Introduce Gun Legislation, Boehner Proposes Tax Hike, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Dec 17, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including an update on Hillary Clinton's health scare, why a pizza chain founder is suing the Obama administration and what Stephen Colbert is doing with the rest of his super PAC money. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Worst 2012 Election Predictions, Michelle Obama’s Political Future, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Dec 6, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including a major backer of Mitt Romney's failed presidential campaign lashing out at voters and what a new poll on gay marriage shows. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Congress: Not the Place for Insider Trading

Staff / Truthdig Feb 1, 2012 The fact that lawmakers like Sen. Joe Lieberman need to go out of their way to draft specific legislation to stipulate that members of Congress shouldn't be engaging in insider trading with information they may come across by virtue of their vaunted positions is kind of revealing, isn't it? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lieberman’s Retirement Party

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Jan 20, 2011 Dig deeper

Lieberman to Hang It Up in 2012

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2011 The last decade has been a politically eventful one for Connecticut's Sen Joe Lieberman, who kicked off the millennium with a vice-presidential near miss and went on to raise Democratic hackles more recently with his changing loyalties . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Scores a Victory, Along With Some Vindication

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 21, 2010 President Obama must be tempted to respond to his progressive critics with a quote from the old-school rapper Kool Moe Dee: "How ya like me now?" Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Israel’s Lieberman Proposes Redrawing Borders

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2010 Israels notoriously racist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has proposed that any future peace deal with the Palestinians should focus on a redrawing of his country's borders, excluding much of Israel's Arab citizenry while including illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian lands. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Despite New Cuts, Obama Will Spend More than Bush on Military

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2010 The most important fact in the New York Times report on Defense Secretary Robert Gates' spending cuts comes 15 paragraphs in, when we learn that the U.S. will still spend more than ever on the military, more than all other countries combined, more than under President Bush. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )