Trump Attends Anti-Choice Rally in D.C.

JILL COLVIN / The Associated Press Jan 24, 2020 The former choice supporter calls it his “profound honor" to be the first president to attend the annual "March for Life" gathering. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Corporate America’s Latest Bill of Goods

Conor Lynch / Truthdig Sep 20, 2019 To win favor with distrustful millennials, America’s CEOs are pushing the idea that they care about more than profits. Don’t believe it. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

America’s Official Poverty Rate Is a Total Farce

Paul Buchheit / Common Dreams Jan 8, 2019 By any reasonable definition, the number is three times greater than our political and media classes are willing to acknowledge. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Facebook Kills ‘Trending’ Topics, Tests Breaking News Label

BARBARA ORTUTAY / The Associated Press Jun 1, 2018 Facebook is shutting down its problematic "trending" news section after four years, claiming the tool is outdated and wasn't popular. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

New Survey Finds That 85 Percent of Bernie Sanders Supporters Now Plan to Vote for Hillary Clinton

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2016 The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center and released last week, also shows that 9 percent of Sanders supporters intend to vote for Donald Trump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Is Religion Really Driving Middle East Violence?

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jul 12, 2016 Pew Research has released a report saying, “As a whole, the region continued to have the highest levels of religious hostilities in the world. In 2014, the median level of religious hostilities in the Middle East and North Africa reached a level four times that of the global median.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Middle- and Lower-Income U.S. Households Losing Ground, Report Says

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams May 13, 2016 Poorer households saw their income drop from a median of $26,373 in 1999 to $23,811 in 2014, and middle-class incomes fell too, according to new research. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Donald Trump and Ben Carson: The Outsiders Have Found Their Way In

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Nov 6, 2015 Why haven't Trump and Carson faded away? Because they're saying what much of the Republican Party base wants to hear. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

STUDY: Share of Immigrants in U.S. Nears Early 20th-Century Highs

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 28, 2015 The immigration of 59 million people to the U.S. since 1965, when Congress ended quotas that overwhelmingly favored Northern Europeans, has more than quadrupled the number of immigrants in the country. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Pollster With Integrity: Remembering Andy Kohut

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 10, 2015 The founder of Pew Research Center and one of the nation's leading pollsters died Tuesday. He turned the phrase "Just the facts, ma'am" into a deeply humane commitment. In a time of passion, his passion was simply to get it right. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Americans’ Political Attitudes Polarized but Ambivalent

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jul 27, 2015 So accustomed are we to highlighting the polarized nature of our politics that we often forget how many Americans decline to be painted in bright reds or bright blues Among us, there are pinks and turquoises and even purples And these voters will matter a great deal to the elections in 2016 and beyond So accustomed are we to highlighting the polarized nature of our politics that we often forget how many Americans decline to be painted in bright reds or bright blues. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

71% of the World’s Population Survives on Less Than $10 a Day

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jul 10, 2015 A new report from the Pew Research Center explains that the notion of a global middle class is "more promise than reality." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )