Some Factory Jobs Return, Paying a Whole Lot Less

Staff / Truthdig May 18, 2011 Unemployed American workers are glad to see factory jobs returning, but they're finding that the pay is drastically lower now, the result of a global race to the bottom for cheap labor. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

May Day: A Festival of Solidarity

Scott Tucker / Truthdig May 5, 2011 This year, the May Day march in Los Angeles was notably smaller than in recent years, but still lively and militant The year-by-year count of May Day marchers can never be an exact science, but the history of labor is full of surprises. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement Spells Continued Job Loss, Study Predicts

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 An Economic Policy Institute report released Tuesday confirms that a ballooning US-Mexico trade deficit has cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and predicts more of the same when the U-Korea Free Trade Agreement comes into force. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Clinton Trotted Out to Back Tax Deal

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2010 Former President Bill Clinton, the Democrat who brought you such miracles as welfare reform, NAFTA and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” has jumped into the fray over the tax cut deal, adding his support to the compromise worked out by President Obama with the Republicans. “I don’t believe there is a better deal out there,” Clinton said. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Clinton’s Contrition

David Sirota / Truthdig Apr 23, 2010 Whereas former presidents typically devote their retirements to history-revising legacy preservation, Bill Clinton is laudably doing the opposite -- and the nation will, hopefully, benefit. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

David Sirota / Truthdig Nov 6, 2009 The rules governing what we buy and sell are now playing such a decisive role in almost every major policy that we ignore them at our peril. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Bill Puts Brakes on Mexican Trucks

Staff / Truthdig Mar 11, 2009 President Obama's $410 billion spending bill may paradoxically end funding for a cross-border trucking program between Mexico and the U.S. Critics of the program cite safety issues around Mexican trucks, while Mexican officials decry protectionism as policies surrounding the NAFTA trade agreement continue to fall apart. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexican Drug Wars Claim 5,000 Lives in 2008

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2008 It's been a creeping tragedy that has escaped serious attention by many major media outlets, but the recurring waves of drug violence in Mexico have taken the lives of about 5,000 people in 2008. In response, the Mexican government has deployed more than 40,000 troops, though corruption within the state's security forces remains a grave problem. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Countering Race With Class

David Sirota / Truthdig Jun 20, 2008 In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the "us" and "them" are. At their most effective, Democrats parry by defining the "us" as the majority of working people, and the "them" as the tiny group of plutocrats who control the country. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Clinton Documents Land With a Thud

Staff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2008 Journalists have been poring over the 11,000 or so pages of Hillary Clinton's White House public schedules, just released by the National Archives and the Clinton Library. So far, they haven't found much worth reporting. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: ‘Lay Off Nader’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 11, 2008 Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges argues in the Philadelphia Inquirer that Ralph Nader may not win, but "[h]e is the only candidate who has not lined his pockets with tens of millions of dollars of corporate campaign money, [not] talked out of both sides of his mouth about the war in Iraq, NAFTA and health care, and has dedicated his life to battling the corporations who make war on working men and women." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hope in the Time of NAFTA

David Sirota / Truthdig Mar 7, 2008 Reading articles about Hillary Clinton attacking NAFTA can lead you to believe The Onion has taken over America's news bureaus. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )