America Needs a Radical Dr. King, Not a New Obama

Paul Street / CounterPunch Jan 22, 2018 The real Martin Luther King—not a sanitized version—was a democratic socialist who believed the U.S. had to reconstruct its whole system. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Denormalizing Hate

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Jan 15, 2018 America's underlying moral sickness has spread with the immigration debate. Generous, fair and flexible policy is the antidote. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Peace First

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Dec 19, 2017 Want to make America great? Demand an end to war—at home and abroad—as Martin Luther King Jr. did. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

‘The Post’ Feels Like Old Hollywood

Jordan Riefe / Truthdig Dec 6, 2017 Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks deliver smart, enjoyable entertainment in Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers potboiler. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Trump Says He Doesn’t Plan to Block Release of JFK Records

Jill Colvin / AP Oct 21, 2017 The National Archives has until Thursday to disclose the trove of remaining files related to John Kennedy's 1963 assassination. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Existing Law May Not Solve Presidential Crisis

Bill Blum / Truthdig Oct 16, 2017 For those looking to oust Donald Trump, don’t pin your hopes on impeachment, indictment or the 25th Amendment. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Vietnam Myopia, 50 Years Later

Danny Goldberg / Truthdig Sep 26, 2017 “The Vietnam War” series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS does not present, as its makers claim, a balanced view of the war. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Korean Missile Crisis vs. the Cuban Missile Crisis

Paul Street / Truthdig Aug 13, 2017 John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev avoided nuclear war in 1962. Whether Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will do so remains a question. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

How Fidel Outlived His U.S. Government Assassins

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 26, 2016 "John F. Kennedy's administration tried to assassinate Fidel Castro by using Mafia hit men," wrote Robert Scheer, Truthdig editor in chief, in a Los Angeles Times column first published in 1997. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Smoking Gun: 1960s-Era Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Says Politics ‘Is All Fraudulent’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 29, 2015 A trusted and celebrated journalist credited with inventing the genre of the modern presidential campaign book told a close friend in a 1960 letter that all of politics is a fraud but that he felt compelled to play along. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Why There Is No Massive Anti-War Movement in America

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Feb 3, 2015 I.F. Stone’s sign-off, that medic’s song, and my letter all are documents from a time when Americans could be in opposition to, while also feeling in service to, their country. They are documents from a lost world and so would, I suspect, have little meaning to the young of the present moment. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

JFK

David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star Nov 23, 2013 Dig deeper