Study: American Democracy ‘Seriously Threatened’

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Aug 27, 2014 A pair of researchers have a handy tip for those Americans still attached to the notion that we live in a representative democracy: Get ready to kiss that notion goodbye. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

New Study Finds the U.S. Is Not a Democracy, So What Is It?

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 18, 2014 Let me offer a hint: The ruling class is far wealthier than the rest in this political system. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Extend Their Benefits and They Still Take Jobs

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 9, 2013 New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows that long-term jobless people whose unemployment benefits were extended at the start of the recession did not become unwilling to work. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Krugman on Why Jobs Come First

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 16, 2013 New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman drew on 20th century U.S. history to explain to Bill Moyers how a Washington that was willing to spend could end the present American depression. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges Occupies Princeton

BLANK Dec 20, 2011 Chris Hedges tells a gathering of smarties, "I feel that I've learned as much from the movement as I've given to it, if I've given even very much to it." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cornel West Recalls the Attica Prison Rebellion

Staff / Truthdig Sep 13, 2011 Princeton University professor Dr. Cornel West spoke to a crowd of almost 3,000 people at the Riverside Church in New York City on Friday during an evening of remembrance for another sort of 9/11. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Smiley & West’ Goes on Air

Staff / Truthdig Nov 8, 2010 Tavis Smiley is a tenured public broadcaster; Cornel West is a tenured professor at Princeton University. Together like Voltron, they form the new public radio show, "Smiley & West." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cornel West on ‘Fault Lines’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2010 On the most recent episode of Avi Lewis' "Fault Lines," Princeton professor Cornel West talks race, class, foreign policy, the global recession, and the current political pressure that is being put upon Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Economy Looks Better in Paul Krugman’s Neighborhood

Staff / Truthdig Nov 12, 2009 Around here we take what Paul Krugman has to say seriously, which is probably why we've been so depressed lately. Alas (at last, even), the Nobel Prize-winning economist sees signs of hope -- not in the numbers, but walking around the streets of New York and Princeton. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 8, 2008 The multiple failures that beset the country can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think. They focus instead on creating hordes of competent systems managers. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Terror From the Inside

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 6, 2008 The terrorists find all sorts of reasons to hate us. On Aug. 5 came word that the deadliest biological assault on the United States may be linked to the rejection of the terror suspect by a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sister decades ago. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )