the apprentice

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig May 26, 2016 Dig deeper

The Dangerous Insecurity of Donald Trump

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig May 17, 2016 The presumptive Republican nominee has built a career on bluster, branding and relentless self-promotion. These are useful traits for a vainglorious mogul. For a president of the United States, they could be catastrophic. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Donald Trump and CNN’s Jeff Zucker Made Their Business America’s Political Problem

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2016 For the most powerful members of the American media and political classes to get any closer, they’d have to sit on each others’ laps. So what does that mean for the rest of the country? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Schwarzenegger

Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons Sep 16, 2015 Dig deeper

Trumped-Up Racism

Marcia Alesan Dawkins / Truthdig Apr 28, 2011 The certificate and its release prove two things most people should already know: Obama is an American. And, as Tavis Smiley put it, the 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be “the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic." As with any post-racial attack—appealing to racists but also appealing to deniability—Trump’s latest complaint feeds directly into our nation’s history of racism and racist entitlement. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )