Staff / TruthdigJul 29, 2016
The whistleblower could be subject to indefinite solitary confinement and may lose any chance of parole if the Army convicts her of what the ACLU calls “administrative offenses.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 22, 2016
More than 42,000 Americans killed themselves in 2014, and middle-aged people are leading the trend. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 13, 2016
Chris Hedges and two combat veterans analyze the realities of American intervention in the Middle East and explain why the brutalized become brutal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 11, 2016
In a Canadian indigenous community of 2,000 people, 11 in one day tried to take their own lives, after 28 tried during the previous month. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 20, 2016
Certain groups among the autistic tend to die 30 years earlier than their peers in the general population, and a charity is calling on Britain's National Health Service to find out why. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigMar 14, 2016
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Barbara Ehrenreich / TomDispatchDec 2, 2015
The “diseases” leading to excessive white working-class deaths are those of despair, and some of the obvious causes are economic. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 7, 2015
Several fatal shootings by police around the U.S. are being ruled as "suicides by cop." Are officials too eager to explain away the use of deadly force? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigMay 20, 2015
Although the rate of suicides among black Americans is typically lower than that of whites, researchers have recently discovered alarming findings regarding black children ages 5 to 11. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 16, 2015
The jury that convicted the accused in the Boston Marathon bombing was biased before the trial even started, a wave of suicides is sweeping through a town in California and an activist works toward getting women to "free the nipple." These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 27, 2015
Prosecutors point to a torn-up note from a doctor as evidence that the copilot who killed himself and 149 other people when he crashed a commercial jet into the French Alps on Tuesday suffered from an illness. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigFeb 23, 2015
Screenwriter Graham Moore revealed a surprising fact about himself during his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night, paid tribute to computer science pioneer Alan Turing and offered encouragement to "that kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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