By Alan MinskyNov 9, 2014
Tuesday’s crushing defeat of the centrist Clinton/Obama Democratic Party provides an opening for the American left. The next few years are not going to be pretty, but they could be the beginning of something beautiful. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigNov 1, 2014
A decorated Indian journalist is warning his country about accepting some American ways, from the economy to elections to the media. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigOct 24, 2014
Laura Poitras' lens wordlessly captured the shock of the journalists, the youthful sincerity of the whistle-blower, and the unfolding tension that mounted as the stories started to get published and Edward Snowden revealed himself as the source to the entire world. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigOct 10, 2014
The recent television kerfuffle involving "Real Time" host Bill Maher and guest Sam Harris over whether Muslims are bad people because their religion is, in the words of Harris, "the mother lode of bad ideas," is symbolic of the new American Islamophobia. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigSep 20, 2014
The events of this summer in Ferguson, Mo., highlighted an ugly truth to mainstream Americans: Black men in this country are viewed as so suspicious by law enforcement that they are often shot first and questioned later. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigSep 12, 2014
If Hillary Clinton's latest book, “Hard Choices,” was not an obvious enough sign of her presidential aspirations, then her recent Washington Post review of Henry Kissinger's new book, “World Order,” seems to have sealed the deal. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigAug 21, 2014
Police brutality against black men has become a shockingly common phenomenon in the U.S. The names of those who have died at the hands of law enforcement or their unofficial vigilante deputies over the past few years are too numerous to count. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigAug 7, 2014
"I can't breathe" was one of the last things 44-year-old Eric Garner said after being arrested by New York Police Department officers and placed in what appears, in a bystander's video, to be a chokehold. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigJul 3, 2014
Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, best known for his reporting on the U.S. surveillance state, told me that in the year since he first met whistle-blower Edward Snowden, he went back and re-read Orwell's dystopian novel “1984.” Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigApr 17, 2014
The fact is that although there may be marginally increasing diversity among the casts of fictional television series, there are not nearly enough black and brown voices presenting or analyzing the news on television or in newsrooms, in broadcast or print, in traditional media or new media.There are not nearly enough black and brown voices presenting or analyzing the news on television or in newsrooms, in broadcast or print, in traditional media or new media. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 2, 2014
America's first public radio network is reportedly in trouble. This is a vision to stabilize and save Pacifica. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigMar 18, 2014
Pacifica, the original alternative media, just fired its national director. The New York Times doesn't seem to know why. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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