Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2009 The key word being had: The new secretary of energy, Nobel Prize-winning Steven Chu, is making waves in the policy community with his daunting comments about climate change. Chu warns that the farms of California, the nation's leading agricultural producer, could vanish by the end of this century if steps to slow global warming are not taken. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

British Playwright Harold Pinter Dies at 78

Staff / Truthdig Dec 26, 2008 The theater world lost one of its brightest lights on Christmas Eve with the death of playwright Harold Pinter. The 78-year-old British Nobel Prize winner, whose best-known plays included "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party," succumbed to throat cancer on Wednesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Tale of Two Nobel Nations

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 10, 2008 While the Nobel prizes recognize lifetime achievements in medicine, chemistry, physics, literature, economics and peace, and Sweden is a paragon among progressive, social democracies, there is another side to Sweden and the Nobels that warrants a closer look. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Vive Le Clézio!

Staff / Truthdig Oct 10, 2008 French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was named this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. Le Clézio, whom the Swedish Academy fancifully described as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation," has written more than 20 novels since the early age of 23. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Moral Force Moves Into History

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2008 He was born into a Cossack family, which was just one of many indications that life wasn't exactly going to be conflict-free for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died Aug. 3. The Russian writer survived eight years in Stalin's notorious gulags and became one of his country's most controversial critical thinkers, a process that continued during the two decades he was forced to live in exile. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Joseph Stiglitz on Recession

James Harris / Truthdig Jun 4, 2008 Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and co-author of "The Three Trillion Dollar War," shares his insights into America's economic woes and explains why things are probably going to get worse. Dig deeper

Joseph Stiglitz on Recession

James Harris / Truthdig Jun 4, 2008 Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and co-author of "The Three Trillion Dollar War," shares his insights into America's economic woes and explains why things are probably going to get worse. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Scientist: HIV Vaccine at Square One

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2008 Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore has told his peers that researchers are no closer to discovering an HIV vaccine after decades of study. He called for new approaches and said the challenge was difficult because "to control HIV immunologically the scientific community has to beat out nature, do something that nature, with its advantage of four billion years of evolution, has not been able to do." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Peace With the Earth

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Dec 27, 2007 Since this is the list-making time of year, allow me to add a tiny trophy to Al Gore's very full shelf: the prize for the most elegant speech of 2007. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Al Gore’s Nobel Speech

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2007 Why did Al Gore waste eight years of his life as America's vice president? He's much better at trying to save the world. Watch his Nobel Prize acceptance speech and see for yourself. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

From Oil Wars to Water Wars

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Dec 12, 2007 While Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were once again warning the world about the devastating effects of global warming, Senate Republicans and the United States government were working at home and abroad to bring us closer to catastrophe. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Gore and Bush Survive Each Other’s Company

Staff / Truthdig Nov 27, 2007 By all accounts it was an awkward meeting between two men who've clearly disliked each other since the 2000 election: Al Gore and George W. Bush, grinning uncomfortably for the cameras. Gore, who was invited by tradition because of his Nobel win, offered a tension-breaking comment during the photo op, but the president just kept smiling in silence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )