Theater

Russian Playwright Arrested for First Time Since Soviet Era

Mikhail Kaluzhsky / Open Democracy May 18, 2023 The action has spooked Russia's theater world. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Ear to the Ground

The Strange Case of Jack Teixeira

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2023 An Air National Guardsman in Cape Cod posts classified documents to “Thug Shaker Central.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ear to the Ground

Nord Stream Explosion: After the Bombing, the Cover Up

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2023 Following his stunning story alleging Washington’s leading role in destroying the Nord Stream pipelines, Seymour Hersh addresses Western media silence. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Complex Feminist Legacy of Soviet Women

Sasha Talaver / Lefteast Mar 9, 2023 The Eighth of March in Russia: USSR, war, and women’s rights. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Food Corporations Earn Billions While Millions Go Hungry

Davi Martins / Open Democracy Mar 6, 2023 Twenty of the world’s biggest food corporations paid $53.5 billion to their shareholders over the past two years. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Ear to the Ground

Europe’s Breadbasket and the Shock Doctrine

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2023 Will ballooning wartime debt allow agribusiness to make a feast of Ukrainian agriculture? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Beating the Drums of War

Randall Enos Feb 27, 2023 Dig deeper

Opinion

A War Between Two World Views

Lena Surzhko Harned / The Conversation Feb 23, 2023 Looking back at a year of Russia's war on Ukraine. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Europe

Did America Bomb the Nord Stream Pipeline?

Seymour Hersh / IMI Feb 9, 2023 The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the U.S. executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret — until now, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Europe

Refugees in Their Own City

Grigoriy Globa / Open Democracy Jan 23, 2023 Conversations about aiding displaced people have resumed in Dnipro, after 45 were killed in a Russian attack on an apartment block. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

World

Holy War in Ukraine

Andriy Fert/ Open Democracy Dec 23, 2022 The Ukraine government is preparing to ban the country’s largest Orthodox church over its links with Russia Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Russia, Turkey Announce Cease-Fire in Northwestern Syria

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and SUZAN FRASER / The Associated Press Mar 5, 2020 Putin and Erdogan reach deal to try to ease escalating tensions with Assad-led forces in Idlib and say they will help refugees return home. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )