Marie Cocco / TruthdigOct 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 / TruthdigOct 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 )
Staff / TruthdigOct 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 )
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Marie Cocco / TruthdigSep 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 / TruthdigAug 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 / TruthdigAug 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 / TruthdigAug 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 / TruthdigAug 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 / TruthdigJul 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 / TruthdigJul 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 )
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