Jim Hightower / OtherWordsNov 5, 2019
As corporations essentially steal dairy products and farms, the Trump administration says it's natural for the big to devour the small. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 22, 2016
The "Milk" screenwriter offered his reasons to pause and consider the ongoing stories behind the LGBT nightclub tragedy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigApr 20, 2015
As long as we exploit animals and kill them for food, we will exploit and kill each other. The willful numbness of our life as carnivores feeds our lack of empathy for the poor, our lust for war and ecocide. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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Kasia Anderson / TruthdigApr 30, 2014
The president and board of trustees at Pasadena City College thrust their school into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently with a political and public relations debacle involving PCC alumnus and Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigMar 12, 2014
There's a reason why so many Americans have become lactose intolerant and the proof may be in the milky pudding. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 25, 2014
It seems like every time experts claim something is detrimental to your well-being, they have to retract themselves the following day. Here are a few things you'll be delighted to reincorporate into your diet. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 20, 2010
Sean Penn isn't known for being a shrinking violet, and he's drawn criticism and applause for taking public political stances on a wide range of topics. However, when Penn registered his displeasure with a photographer in L.A.'s tony Brentwood neighborhood last October, the actor allegedly took things to a physical level -- and now he's facing charges that may land him in jail. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 17, 2010
How did Andrew McIntosh go from having thoughts like "How will people remember me after I take this bottle of pills so I can just die and no one will ever know I'm gay?" to being a cheerful, out-of-the-closet lacrosse captain? Things started to turn around for the college athlete, he says, after he saw the movie "Milk." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 12, 2009
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has changed his tune about Harvey Milk Day, signing a bill on Monday to make May 22, Milk's birthday, a day of official commemoration for the slain San Francisco supervisor and gay rights activist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 14, 2009
Vanity Fair's Brett Berk has detected a mini-pattern playing out in the film world, starring (but certainly not limited to) "Brüno," Sacha Baron Cohen's latest attempt at biting social satire. It's "Pinkface" -- or the cinematic phenomenon in which straight guys play gay by way of trying to "lay claim to homosexuality as a 'topic'" with less-than-stellar results, judging by Berk's sum-up of the situation. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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