Downfall of a California City Holds Blueprint for Restoring Democracy

Angela M. Sanchez / LARB Jan 6, 2019 Fred Smoller details the kleptocratic takeover of Bell and offers actionable steps for increasing transparency between citizens and their local government. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Sugar for Wall Street Daddies, Austerity for the Rest of Us

Teodrose Fikre / Truthdig May 21, 2018 Look at the latest farm bill winding its way through Congress. America has been indentured by multinational corporations. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Bracing for a Decade of Crisis

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance Jan 2, 2018 The impacts of the long mismanagement of climate change, inequality, militarism and other issues will soon be unavoidable. What we do now to prepare is crucial to the nation's viability. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Truthdig’s Top 50 TD Originals of 2017

Staff / Truthdig Dec 29, 2017 In a tough year, our most popular opinion pieces provided analysis of the news and solutions for the problems we face. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Feuding Kleptocrats

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 27, 2017 While the power elites—inside and outside of government—squabble over corporate health insurance, they are demolishing the remnants of democratic institutions and programs. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview)

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2017 The "25/8" news cycle is already rolling, but the looting of America hasn't really begun. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Suit Filed to Halt Trump’s Pro-Corporate Deregulation Scheme

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams Feb 9, 2017 A coalition of progressive groups tries to block the president’s order to roll back two regulations for every new one implemented. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges on Donald Trump’s ‘Naked Kleptocracy’

BLANK Jan 14, 2017 The president-elect is “malleable and easily manipulated” in the face of establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle, the Truthdig contributor says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Defying Donald Trump’s Kleptocracy

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 2, 2017 The president-elect represents the late stage of capitalism, when corporations, no longer able to generate profits at former levels, pillage the government and society for profit. However, he will be vulnerable to impeachment if we take to the streets. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Home, Sweet Kleptocracy: Kabul in America

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Nov 25, 2015 Many citizens regard their government at all levels with a weary combination of cynicism and contempt. Fundamentalist groups respond by calling for a return to religious values and the imposition of religious law. What country is this? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit

By Michael Hudson Oct 23, 2014 With the IMF and European Central Bank acting as knee-breakers in what has become a financial extension of NATO, the U.S. and its allied investors aim to appropriate the wealth that kleptocrats took from the public domain of Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet economies, as well as whatever assets remain. Dig deeper ( 31 Min. Read )