Juan Cole / Informed CommentApr 5, 2018
Here are five reasons Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in an interview with The Atlantic, was wrong to liken Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Nazi leader. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / Informed CommentApr 4, 2018
The Atlantic's editor in chief breathlessly reported that Mohammed bin Salman told him that both Jews and Palestinians have a right to their own state. There is nothing unprecedented about what the Saudi royal said. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Eric Ortiz / TruthdigNov 16, 2017
The WikiLeaks founder now appears to have been a political operative in 2016—favoring the Trump campaign—despite his denial that he played such a role. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigApr 19, 2016
After his critical comments in an interview in The Atlantic last month, Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia is going to be awkward. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Donald Kaufman / TruthdigMar 16, 2016
Obama faces criticism over civilian deaths caused by the drone program, which is being denounced as having little oversight, a mounting death toll and results that can be seen as war crimes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 6, 2015
For roughly 30 years, the FBI has virtually ignored a system meant to help cops track the behavioral patterns of violent criminals. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 8, 2014
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists sort through the Republican victory in a rare live show out of Washington, D.C. The Atlantic's David Frum says voters signaled the economy continues to disappoint; Scheer says Obama was responsible for ignoring the party base; and host Matt Miller suggests we institute mandatory voting. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigAug 14, 2014
Israel's best spokesperson is none other than our very own former secretary of state, according to Haaretz columnist and professor Peter Beinart, who argues that Hillary Clinton's empathy for Benjamin Netanyahu's decisions is exactly why she "gets so much wrong" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJul 14, 2014
This map has attracted so much ire and controversy not because it is inaccurate but because it clearly shows what has been done to the Palestinians, whom the League of Nations had recognized as not far from achieving statehood in its covenant. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 3, 2014
Atlantic contributor Conor Friedersdorf supported The New York Times' call for clemency for NSA leaker and whistle-blower Edward Snowden by meticulously explaining why clemency would not set a dangerous precedent that would encourage federal employees to become loose with all manner of official secrets, as many of the Times' critics have claimed. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 18, 2013
Massachusetts' US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant U Attorney Stephen Heymann must be held accountable for their actions during their prosecution of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz; in China, a father hired online "assassins" to kill his son's avatar in an attempt to save his real life; meanwhile, the U is giving the Afghan government a fleet of drones These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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