Staff / TruthdigOct 13, 2009
TPMMuckraker investigates the sad story of Hardin, Mont., a town so desperate for jobs it fell for a private prison scheme that left it with a big empty jail and a load of debt. You know you're in trouble when you have to beg the state to send you sex offenders. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 28, 2008
And neither would you, if you were him He's a maverick, after all Just because a majority of Americans don't want him to be president doesn't mean oh. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 28, 2008
Robocalls are illegal in Indiana, so John McCain and friends paid to have a local call center phone voters. The campaign's script was upsetting to some of the center's workers, who decided to miss out on a paycheck rather than read it, so they got up and left. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 15, 2008
How does someone go from being a trusted economic adviser to being a prospective ambassador to Belarus? Ask McCain fixture Phil Gramm, who dismissed America's economic problems as a figment. Here with more, the nation's finest talking heads. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 20, 2008
Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo argues that John McCain's foreign policy shortsightedness makes him unfit to command. It's not just Iraq, Marshall says, but a pattern of looking at the world simplistically. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 16, 2007
Just in case anyone forgot that Rudy Giuliani was the mayor of New York on Sept. 11, 2001, or wondered why a former mayor thinks he's qualified to be president, the candidate has developed something of a "9/11" tick. It turns out he might not be entirely conscious of it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 16, 2007
The hawks have taken to the Sunday morning air to beat the war drums over Iran, while those who oppose them, including former President Jimmy Carter, try to prevent a disaster worse than Iraq. TPM TV has this roundup. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 21, 2006
Via Business Week, we learn that an entire niche industry has sprung up to provide the government with commercially purchased telecommunications records that the government isn't allowed to purchase itself. (TPM Muckraker has a good sum-up.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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