Hillary Clinton for President in 2016?

Staff / Truthdig Dec 4, 2012 The New Yorker's David Remnick says the answer to that question, based on the secretary of state's appearance at the annual Saban Forum over the weekend, is yes, "she's running." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Zakaria Suspended After Acknowledging Plagiarism

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Aug 11, 2012 Fareed Zakaria, a CNN host and editor-at-large for Time magazine, has been suspended by both news organizations after he admitted to plagiarizing parts of a story from The New Yorker. Zakaria apologized once the allegations came to light. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

New Yorker Journalist Quits Over Fake Dylan Quotes

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 31, 2012 Jonah Lehrer (at right) resigned Monday from The New Yorker after he admitted to fabricating quotes from Bob Dylan in his book "Imagine." The discovery was made by Michael C. Moynihan, a writer for the online magazine Tablet. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Care and Feeding of a Corporate Propagandist

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 21, 2012 Over the last decade, New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell has managed to metamorphose from a trained shill for Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and the deregulatory movement into an intellectual darling of mainstream "liberal" America. How did he do it? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Time to Remake the Climate

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2012 Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and with the intellectual property behind most of the solutions sitting in the public domain, any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it.Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Democracy Now!’: Seymour Hersh on the IAEA’s Racket in Iran

Staff / Truthdig Nov 22, 2011 Last week, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency expressed "serious concerns" over Iran's nuclear program in a strongly worded report that claimed that there is evidence that Iran might be developing an atomic weapon. This is the stuff of "fantasyland," according to The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdig Wins 2011 Webby for Best Political Blog

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 Once again, Truthdig has won the Webby Award, the juried version, in the "Blog -- Political" category for the second year in a row The competition consisted of four widely read sites on top of their game: "Close Read" on The New Yorker, Comedy Central's Indecision (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Big Webby News for Truthdig

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2011 We're ever so happy and humbled to announce that Truthdig has once again been picked as one of the five finalists for the Webby Award in the "Blog - Political" category! This year, the competition is formidable, with some serious heavy hitters . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdig Wins Webby Award for Best Political Blog

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2010 All of us here at Truthdig are honored to announce that we've won the Webby Award jury prize for this year's Best Political Blog The fact that our fellow nominees included sites we visit daily like The Huffington Post, The Economist, The New Yorker and The Atlantic (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Journalism’s Parasites

David Sirota / Truthdig Apr 16, 2010 It's time to shame by name the access traders, double agents and watchdog turncoats destroying journalism for their own personal gain. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘I’m Not Going to the Back of the Bus’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 13, 2008 America has come a long way, says Democratic strategist and CNN personality Donna Brazile, so if Americans don't vote for Barack Obama, it had better be because of his policies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hersh: Cheney & Co. Discussed How to Trigger War With Iran

Staff / Truthdig Aug 3, 2008 You may have already seen this, but it bears re-posting far and wide: The inimitable Seymour Hersh gave truly disturbing details, during the Campus Progress journalism conference in July, expounding upon his article from that month's New Yorker about the Bush administration's attempts to find a cause for war against Iran in late 2007. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )