Private Prison Swindle Bleeds Desperate Towns Dry

Staff / Truthdig Oct 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 )

John McCain Doesn’t Agree With the Polls

Staff / Truthdig Oct 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 )

McCain Callers Walk in Protest

Staff / Truthdig Oct 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 )

‘A Nation of Whiners’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )

TPM on McCain Myopia

Staff / Truthdig Mar 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 )

Rudy Pimps 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Nov 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 )

Sunday Saber Rattling

Staff / Truthdig Oct 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 )

Did Telcos Use Scapegoat-for-Hire in NSA Case?

Staff / Truthdig May 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 )