Kansas Voter Registration Discrepancy May Have Disenfranchised Spanish-Speaking Voters

Emma Niles / Truthdig Apr 14, 2016 Why are there multiple differences between the English-language and Spanish-language version of the state’s voting guide? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Sanders and Cruz Give Clinton and Trump a Run for Their Money on Super Saturday

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Mar 6, 2016 Bernie Sanders won important victories in Kansas and Nebraska in the latest voting, while Ted Cruz showed that Donald Trump may not be as inevitable as he has come to seem. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Take Your Best Guest

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2015 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: We revisit some of our favorite interviews from the past year. Topics include: war powers, banned books, the Koch brothers and the incredible journey of veteran-turned-pacifist Rory Fanning. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How States Are Redistributing the Wealth

David Sirota / Truthdig Dec 27, 2014 In 2008, candidate Obama was lambasted for supposedly endorsing policies of wealth redistribution. Yet only a few years later, the most explicit examples of such redistribution are happening in the states, and often at the urging of Republicans. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

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 )

Midterms 2014: Control of the Senate Hangs in the Balance

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Nov 5, 2014 The 2014 midterm election season will go down in history as the time when unprecedented amounts of money were spent in the tussle over control of the U.S. Senate -- and, by extension, over the potential outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Moderate Thunder Out of Brownbackistan

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Oct 30, 2014 If Republicans do as well nationwide next Tuesday as many expect, they should pay attention to what's happening in Kansas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How 11 States Got Marriage Equality in 1 Day

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 7, 2014 By refusing to hear appeals from lower courts Monday, the Supreme Court effectively legalized gay marriage in five states, plus six more that hadn't even filed suit. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Those Budget-Busting, Job-Killing GOP Governors

Joe Conason / Truthdig Oct 3, 2014 Even as Republicans boast of their chances to take over the United States Senate come November, their party's governors across the country are facing dimmer prospects. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

When Moderates Fight Back

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 9, 2014 The missing component in the machinery of American politics has been moderate-to-liberal Republicanism, and the gears of government are grinding very loudly. You wonder if Kansas and Alaska have come up with a solution to this problem. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Kansas Experiment Blows Up Laboratory of Democracy

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jul 26, 2014 When Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932 that a "single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory," he surely wasn't imagining anything quite like Brownbackistan. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Michelle Obama: Segregation Persists 60 Years After Brown v. Board of Education Ruling

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2014 First lady Michelle Obama commemorated the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling on race-based school segregation with a sobering speech Friday to graduating high school seniors in Topeka, Kan. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )