‘Left, Right & Center’: Gay Marriage, Islam, Leon Panetta and Malala Yousafzai

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2014 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss the Supreme Court's effective approval of gay marriage in numerous states, Bill Maher's debate over whether Islam is a violent religion, and Leon Panetta's hastily published memoir. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Is the President Fighting for a War He Doesn’t Believe In?

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: According to former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the president didn't buy into his own strategy. Also, what's up with Dennis Rodman? Saving public art. And we remember Amiri Baraka. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Throwing Up for Peace

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 2, 2012 The sad fact is that all traditional modes of dissent, whether they're protest marches or boycotts or sit-ins, must ultimately fail because they are generally powerless to prevent their own inception. What does that mean? The sad fact is that all traditional modes of dissent, whether they're protest marches or boycotts or sit-ins, must ultimately fail because they are generally powerless to prevent their own inception. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Why Is the Measure of Love Loss?

By Lauren B. Davis Mar 30, 2012 "When my mother was angry with me, which was often," writes Jeanette Winterson in her new memoir "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?," "she said, 'The devil led us to the wrong crib.' "Jeanette Winterson's novels circle round the same themes—the power of story and mythmaking, the fluidity of gender, monstrous mothers and the loss of love. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

This Gay Man Represented the President

Mel White / Truthdig Feb 17, 2012 James C. Hormel's transformation from a confused and closeted gay kid to the nation's first openly gay ambassador is chronicled in his memoir “Fit to Serve.” Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

God Is Dead

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan 11, 2012 It said DOG on his food bowl, and because he showed no signs that he’d ever learn how to read or write, she decided that he must be dyslexic. So she called him GOD. God, like his considerably more famous namesake, was something of a mutt. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Egg and I

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Nov 19, 2011 Not only does the story testify to the power of humor to sustain a real-life parable celebrating the ingenuity of a man hoping to escape the mundane, but it is also proof that the scenic, circuitous route through life may be preferable to the more direct.When I was in the eighth grade, I was arrested for throwing eggs at a pedophile’s house. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

A Dud From ‘Darth’

John Dean / Truthdig Sep 9, 2011 As I mentioned to friends when I started reading Dick Cheney’s memoir, I was doing it so others would not have to. And, as a precaution, I did it alone in case my head exploded. It did not. This book is a bomb, but not the exploding kind.Dick Cheney’s book is a bomb, but not the exploding kind. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Moammar and Dick

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Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 31, 2011 "When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it," wrote Joseph Goebbels, Germany's Reich minister of propaganda, in 1941. Former Vice President Dick Cheney seems to have taken the famous Nazi's advice in his new book, "In My Time." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Conversation With Albert Speer

Staff / Truthdig Aug 3, 2011 Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, in his memoir "Witness to an Extreme Century," interviews Albert Speer about his 15 years as a prominent Nazi and "Hitler’s architect." Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Controversy Over Rosa Parks Account of a ‘Near-Rape’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2011 Rosa Parks, "mother of the civil rights movement," was discovered recently to have written a first-person account of a young black housekeeper being sexually accosted by a white man, but whether she was describing something that happened to her or was writing a work of fiction is uncertain. (An earlier version of this Truthdig item was based on an AP report that changed afterward when new information surfaced.) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )