TD Column

Pickpocketing the Power of the Purse

Conor Lynch / Truthdig Jun 23, 2025 Before his impeachment, Nixon gained infamy for an act of executive overreach called impoundment. Trump looks ready to bring it back. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Trump’s Antisemitism Scare

Adam Zyglis May 1, 2025 Dig deeper

TD Column

Napoleon in a Clown Nose

Bill Blum / Truthdig Feb 24, 2025 Trump’s assaults on the rule of law are crude and sometimes clownish, but the paradigm shift driving them has been carefully planned. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

TD Interview

The Week John and Yoko Seized American TV

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Oct 7, 2024 “Daytime Revolution” chronicles John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 takeover — with a little help from their radical friends — of “The Mike Douglas Show.” Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Presidential Debates Love To Avoid the Topic of Taxing the Rich

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Sep 16, 2024 Some unasked questions might have helped prevent the last half-century’s massive concentration of income and wealth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Column

Will Harris ‘Go to China’ on Criminal Justice?

Jeb Lund / Truthdig Sep 10, 2024 When it comes to court and policing reform, the former prosecutor should take a page from Richard Nixon. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Column

The John Roberts Blueprint for Dictatorship

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jul 3, 2024 The chief justice’s decision on Trump’s immunity puts the myth of his institutionalism out of its misery, once and for all. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Opinion

Even Nixon Had Greater Respect for Office Than Trump

Spencer Goidel / The Conversation Mar 20, 2024 Richard Nixon declared Americans deserved to know ‘whether their president is a crook,’ while Donald Trump says the opposite. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Politics

Watergate, Trump, and the Bumbling Strategy of Wayward Lawyers

Marshall H. Tanick / Minnesota Reformer Aug 21, 2023 Much like Richard Nixon, Donald Trump's lawyers have managed to step directly into their own legal woes while defending their client. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TD Original

Scandal in Bohemia: Lawsuits Lift Curtain on Secretive Rich Guys ‘Club’

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Aug 17, 2023 A cabal of 200 oligarchs are participating in quasi-occult rites while hatching devilish schemes concerning the fate of the world, and the help is suing for unpaid overtime.  Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Robert Reich: Trump Could Try to Rig the 2020 Elections

Robert Reich / Truthdig Feb 18, 2020 He's already co-opted the Justice Department and abandoned the rule of law. What's to stop the president from interfering this November? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Ugly Jingoism Marring Trump’s Impeachment

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Jan 27, 2020 In their zeal to convict the president of high crimes, Democrats refuse to even question our aggressive, reckless policy in Eastern Europe. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )