Staff / TruthdigJun 27, 2009
If, as President Obama once claimed, "sunlight is the best disinfectant," then why is his administration keeping a significant amount of information in the dark? Check out this clip from last night's "Daily Show" to find out why Jon Stewart is responsible for at least some of that. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 16, 2009
It’s been a rough week for Our Lady Speaker of the House. In Act I, she claimed ignorance about the full extent of the CIA’s torture repertoire. However, thanks to the magic of technology and documentation, her version of the story clashed with that of a pissed-off Leon Panetta. (See Robert Scheer's latest column for an editorial critique.) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigMay 13, 2009
Can't we send Dick Cheney back to Wyoming? Shouldn't we chip in and buy him a home where the buffalo roam and there's always room for one more crazy old coot down at the general store? For the final act of his too-long public career, Cheney seems to have decided to become an Old Faithful of self-serving nonsense. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMay 2, 2009
It's not entirely clear how the White House joining the cyber-ranks of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter will serve to make the American government more "transparent" and "efficient," but perhaps micro-blogging will save our democracy or maybe we'll get to hear about what Joe Biden had for lunch. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 22, 2009
Faced with the glaring problem of indulgence and intractability on the highest tiers of Wall Street's corporate behemoths, the Obama administration is putting together a plan to make financial institutions more accountable and more transparent to the government and to the taxpayers who granted them buoyancy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Scott Ritter / TruthdigJan 24, 2009
The United States needs to contract the services of a U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan who is capable of visionary thinking, one who possesses the political courage to stand up to a president and a secretary of state and argue against bad policy. I do not believe Richard Holbrooke is such a man. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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