Building on Our Poor People’s Campaign Coverage

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2018 Our reader-funded project to launch coverage of this important movement has been a success. Now we need your help to keep documenting activism across the nation in this historic moment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Documenting the Poor People’s Campaign

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2018 Activists and civil rights advocates from across the nation have joined to create a new movement that is reigniting Martin Luther King's 1968 effort to fight racism, militarism and materialism. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Poor People’s Campaign: Building Morality From the Ground Up

Michael Nigro / Truthdig May 19, 2018 This movement has nothing to do with left or right, Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal. It's all about right and wrong. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Denying Asylum Seekers Would Be a Stain on America’s Conscience

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig May 1, 2018 The group of migrants that has arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border is a test of American character and purpose. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

America Remains Drunk on Power

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Mar 22, 2018 Our addiction to empire is killing us. When will we recognize that this planet is big enough for every global citizen to have a patch of serenity? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Things We See but Don’t Say in the Afghanistan War

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Feb 14, 2018 America’s Afghan "partners" are morally flawed and lack the legitimacy necessary for "victory." Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

David Cay Johnston on Damage by Trump (Transcript, Audio)

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2018 The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discusses his new book, "It's Even Worse Than You Think," about the first year of the Trump administration. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

‘Make America Christian Again’

Mel White / Truthdig Jan 26, 2018 Now that fundamentalists have their man in the White House, they are running another assault on democracy that would make the late televangelist Jerry Falwell proud. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Denormalizing Hate

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Jan 15, 2018 America's underlying moral sickness has spread with the immigration debate. Generous, fair and flexible policy is the antidote. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Start Caring in 2018

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Dec 23, 2017 It’s up to us to protest, resist, change, communicate and convince, to fight for life rather than its destruction in the age of Trump. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Case Against America’s Brand of ‘Ethical War’

Scott Ritter / Truthdig Nov 21, 2017 A "military ethicist" uses flawed logic, or sophisticated brainwashing techniques, to justify unjust wars in foreign lands. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The Conversation We Should Be Having

By Neal Gabler / Moyers & Company Sep 1, 2017 The nation should be focused on morality generally—on what morality means, on how it applies to politics and on how it applies to our daily lives. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )