Newsweeklies on the Brink

Staff / Truthdig Jul 2, 2009 So, Time and Newsweek have had to reinvent themselves in the face of flagging circulation numbers and built-in relevance issues (i.e., they were created at a time when there were too many newspapers, crazy as that sounds now), but as The Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn notes, there's one weekly news digest that's going strong while others falter. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

As Smash-and-Grab Capitalism Collapses, the French Economy Shines

William Pfaff / Truthdig May 17, 2009 Many in Britain and the United States are in mourning for what's taken as the suicide of the American (or Thatcherite, or Chicago-school) model of capitalism, accompanied by the non-interventionist state that hands the national economy over to business and financial leaders to run. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )