Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Is the Fascist Face of Neoliberalism

Luísa Abbott Galvão / Inequality.org Oct 22, 2018 The candidate has drawn comparisons to Rodrigo Duterte, but that hasn't stopped big business from throwing its support behind his campaign. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 5, 2018 Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley reflects on Trump's ultranationalism and the eerie parallels between the U.S. and pre-war Germany. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

How Markets Make Fools of Us

Staff / Truthdig Oct 18, 2015 In their new book “Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception,” George Akerloff and Robert Shiller merge psychology with economics to give “a broader account of how and why markets produce economic harm." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

In the Darkness of Dick Cheney

By Mark Danner, NYRB and TomDispatch Feb 13, 2014 By invading Iraq, Bush administration policymakers -- and at their head, Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld -- had managed to demonstrate to the world not the grand extent of American power but its limits. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Judge Jed Rakoff

BLANK Dec 22, 2013 In The New York Review of Books last week, Judge Jed Rakoff stepped off the judicial bench and blamed the Justice Department for enabling "too big to jail" banks. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

An Author Changes Course

Staff / Truthdig Mar 1, 2012 French novelist and public provocateur Michel Houellebecq is out to darken the mood and make us laugh uncomfortably at ourselves once again with his newest novel, “The Map and the Territory.” Or is he? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Antidepressant Nation Revisited

Staff / Truthdig Jul 31, 2011 Dr. Marcia Angell has drawn harsh criticism from members of the psychiatric community for her essay doubting the efficacy of antidepressants, published in The New York Review of Books last month. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Apr 10, 2009 I realize that many Americans, given the scope of the economic crisis and the ambitions of the new administration, would rather look forward than revisit the past. The business of torture, however, is too unspeakable to be left unfinished. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )