Politics

Lawmakers Who Voted ‘Yes’ on NDAA Received Big Campaign Cash

Stephen Semler / Responsible Statecraft Dec 19, 2023 Pols who voted for to authorize the $886 billion military budget got four and five times more money from Pentagon contractors, respectively. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Is This Goodbye to the American Republic?

Paul Street / Truthdig Dec 20, 2019 As the U.S. teeters on the brink of fascism, more of the same ineffectual pushback and insincere leadership isn’t going to save the country. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

More Warfare, Bombing, Deaths in Trump’s First Year

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jan 26, 2018 The American public’s lack of attention to the president’s violent and dangerous foreign policy helps explain our ongoing wars. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Death of the Republic

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 22, 2017 The despotic forces that destroyed ancient Rome and other empires are destroying us. And removing Trump would not halt the disintegration. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Waiting for the Barbarians

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 28, 2016 The collapse of our democratic institutions, the pillaging of the economy by the elites and the surrender of our most basic constitutional rights will be enshrined permanently into law by a crisis. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Close Guantanamo and Return It to Cuba

Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig Nov 16, 2015 President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill the promise he made in his Jan. 22, 2009, executive order to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention camp "no later than one year from the date of this order." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Post-Constitutional Era

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 5, 2014 The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear our challenge to the law that lets the military indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens is another example of the transformation of the judiciary into an enemy of the Constitution. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Chris Hedges’ Indefinite Detention Case

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 29, 2014 In a major decision Monday, the US Supreme Court denied Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and other plaintiffs the right to challenge a law that allows the U military to indefinitely detain people alleged or suspected to have helped al-Qaida or the Taliban. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fighting the Militarized State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 31, 2014 The government has asked the Supreme Court not to hear my appeal that challenges the right of the military to arrest U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Obama Signs NDAA, Maintaining Indefinite Detention Provision

BLANK Dec 27, 2013 In an odd juxtaposition, Obama signed the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday while criticizing Congress for abridging the constitutional separation of powers, yet is unconcerned about the violation of individual constitutional rights contained in the law. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Revolutionaries in Our Midst

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 11, 2013 The corporate state's illegitimacy and destruction of privacy and civil liberties are spawning a class of young idealists such as Jeremy Hammond. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Preview: A Storm Is on the Horizon

Bill Blum / Truthdig Sep 5, 2013 As the war clouds gather over Washington in preparation for airstrikes against Syria, the nine justices who sit on the Supreme Court have returned from summer break and are preparing to kick up a legal storm of their own as they resume their quest to radically transform federal law and the Constitution. As the war clouds gather over Washington, the nine justices who sit on the Supreme Court are preparing to kick up a legal storm of their own. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )