American History for Truthdiggers: Nixon’s Dark Legacy

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig May 18, 2019 The president who arguably was the most corrupt in U.S. history lost the Watergate battle but won in his bid to lock U.S. politics on a rightward course. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: Vietnam, a U.S. Tragedy

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Apr 20, 2019 Our military intervention there in the 1960s and ’70s cost 58,000 U.S. lives and created a gash in our nation's psyche that never healed. Dig deeper ( 27 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: JFK’s Cold War Chains

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Apr 6, 2019 His obsession with foreign communism blinded him to U.S. domestic needs. It's time for Americans to stop mythologizing a reckless president. Dig deeper ( 32 Min. Read )

Yes, Our Health System Is Broken, but Broken Systems Can Be Fixed

By Bill Moyers / Moyers and Company Jul 31, 2017 Watching the failure of another GOP effort to deprive millions of their medical care, I recalled a very different scenario under then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Liberals Back to Giving Obama a Pass

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 21, 2012 “Now that Obama appears poised to push substantial parts of Social Security and Medicare over the ‘fiscal cliff’ -- in exchange for a paltry, largely symbolic, increase in the top marginal income-tax rate -- we might ask whether liberals will once again rise to Obama’s defense, no matter how indefensible his actions,” writes John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Caro, LBJ and the Pursuit of Power

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 12, 2012 Robert Caro has so far spent 36 years writing the saga of Lyndon Johnson -- more time than the ambitious Texan spent climbing from Congress to the White House. Caro just released his fourth installment, “The Passage of Power,” which chronicles Johnson’s exit from a strong position in the Senate into the relative powerlessness of the vice presidency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Dec 20, 2008 No one in 1967 dreamed that the Israeli-Arab conflict would still be in ferocious progress 41 years later, but the wording in United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 has something to do with this ongoing clash. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

From LBJ to BHO

Stanley Kutler / Truthdig Nov 12, 2008 The 36th president of the United States seems strangely absent in the current celebrations. Perhaps Lyndon B. Johnson is not fondly remembered, but his triumphs paved the long road to Barack Obama's historic presidency. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Henry ‘the Hammer’ Waxman Shows Issa Who’s Boss

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2008 EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson got the oversight chairman's blood going by refusing to answer a straightforward question, but it was fellow Congressman Darrell Issa who sent Waxman's gavel flying. The best part about being chairman is you get to say: "I will have you physically removed from this meeting if you don't stop." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Could L.A. Accidentally Elect a White Separatist?

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2008 Not many people pay attention to judicial elections, especially one held in June, and it's for that reason that some Angelenos are worried about the campaign of William Johnson. A white separatist, Johnson is apparently counting on a lack of attention and the support of Ron Paul's local organization to help him to victory. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chalmers Johnson on Our ‘Managed Democracy’

BLANK May 16, 2008 Sheldon Wolin's new book offers a controversial but ultimately convincing diagnosis of how America's democracy has succumbed to an unacknowledged totalitarian temptation. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Changing of the Guard for British Gov’t

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2008 To say it was a politically interesting week would be a case of British understatement: London gained a new mayor -- Boris Johnson, who beat incumbent Ken Livingstone to become the first Conservative to win the office -- and Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party took a drubbing in local elections across the U.K. on May Day. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )