Marie Cocco: Colin Powell’s Complicity

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Oct 19, 2006 A new biography makes you long for an act of conscience that is so out of style it seems quaint: the principled resignation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: Last Refuge of the Republicans

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Oct 17, 2006 If Democrats want to roll back Bush's tax cuts, it's only because they want to protect Medicare over millionaires. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: Wait-and-Walk

Staff / Truthdig Oct 12, 2006 Shortly after the November midterm elections, former Secretary of State James Baker, the Bush family fixer anointed to patch up U.S. policy in Iraq, is going to announce what everyone else already knows: It's time to pull out. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Smoldering Legacy of the World Trade Center

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Sep 7, 2006 After five years, we must ask: How did the path from Ground Zero somehow lead us to Abu Ghraib? Where did the elemental goodness that inspired us in those first days and weeks after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon go? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Myth of the Investor Middle Class

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Aug 29, 2006 A new study reveals the "ownership society'' of conservative dreams for the fraud it is; do-it-yourself financing doesn't work when the upper class owns 80% of the nation's stock. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Power of ‘Nothing’

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Aug 24, 2006 The word leaped from President Bush's lips, dismissive and defiant, as though the questioner should have known better, and perhaps should not have asked. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Potemkin Village of Baghdad

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Aug 17, 2006 The Iraqi government, which President Bush heralded last spring as a "milestone,'' a "turning point'' and a "watershed event,'' is perilously ineffectual. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Hippie Factor

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Aug 15, 2006 Tempting though it may be to lump them together, Baghdad is not Saigon, and Cindy Sheehan is not Jane Fonda. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Meltdown We’re Not Supposed to Talk About

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jul 27, 2006 The American middle class is in a free fall. But if Congress and the White House were to acknowledge the problem, then they might have to do something about it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: King George, Dethroned

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jul 3, 2006 As we celebrate our Independence Day, let us thank the Supreme Court for granting us deliverance from the tyranny of a president who tried to fashion himself king. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )