Joe Conason / TruthdigAug 23, 2015
Hillary Hysteria is raging everywhere, from the most disreputable websites to the most respected newspapers. But why is the political press so agitated? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Tim Weiner, TomDispatchJul 15, 2015
Addicted to the gutter politics that ruined him, Richard Nixon was -- as an English earl once said of the warlord Oliver Cromwell -- “a great, bad man.” Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Bill Blum / TruthdigFeb 23, 2015
To see the big picture behind the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, follow the money.To see the big picture behind the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, follow the money. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Chris Hedges / TruthdigOct 27, 2014
The mass media set the parameters of acceptable debate. Cross those parameters, as the investigative journalist Gary Webb did, and you are turned into a pariah. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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David Remnick recalled that the man who directed The Washington Post's reporting on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers "wasn’t Noam Chomsky He was not an outsider or a leftist" But "he built an institution He gave it its ambition". Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigSep 22, 2014
Had Bill Clinton heeded the glaring signs of the sea change ushered in by that now-infamous scene from a boat in Bimini called the Monkey Business in the spring of 1987, he could have spared himself, not to mention the rest of the country, a big hassle during his presidency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 2, 2014
Republican lawmakers compared Barack Obama's White House to the secretive Nixon administration Thursday, denouncing its response to the 2012 attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigMay 31, 2013
Let's state this very simply, so everybody will understand. The notion that Barack Obama is "Nixonian" -- or that his administration's recent troubles bear any resemblance to "Watergate" -- is the biggest media lie since the phony "Whitewater scandal" crested during the Clinton presidency. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigMay 21, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including a GOP candidate once trying to criminalize not reporting a miscarriage to police and Bob Woodward delivers some bad news for Republicans. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigMay 11, 2013
Less than four months after Barack Obama's inauguration, the right-wing propaganda machine is already promoting the only imaginable conclusion to a Democratic administration that dares to achieve a second term: impeachment. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Stanley Kutler / TruthdigJan 9, 2013
Richard Nixon, who would have turned 100 on Wednesday, endures as the commanding figure of American political life since the end of World War II His style, achievements and failures persist nearly two decades after his death. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Stanley Kutler / TruthdigDec 21, 2012
The judge's death Wednesday brings to mind his singular moment: the Senate's rejection of his Supreme Court nomination in 1987 The criticism and assault against him marked a sea change in the process of both nominations and confirmations. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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