This Week’s Walmart Special: Striking Workers

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2013 Employees begin prolonged picketing for the first time against the retail giant; driverless cars will be zipping through our streets in the not-so-distant future; and ant-sized computers that can run the Internet on everything and anything are also underway. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Senator Coburn Wants Offsets for Federal Disaster Relief

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call May 27, 2013 Dig deeper

Shelter From the Storm

John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri May 26, 2013 Dig deeper

Obama Heckled During Speech, Warren Lands a Book Deal, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig May 24, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including why an Oklahoma senator thinks federal disaster relief to his state after a deadly tornado is unnecessary and John McCain gets all maverick-y again. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Heartland

Nick Anderson / Truthdig May 23, 2013 Dig deeper

Tornado

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig May 23, 2013 Dig deeper

The Twister

Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill May 23, 2013 Dig deeper

Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig May 23, 2013 While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do, but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Oklahoma Tornado

Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis May 23, 2013 Dig deeper

Not OK

David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star May 23, 2013 Dig deeper