Courts & Law

We Are Witnessing a Resurgence of Anti-Science Fundamentalism

Robert Reich / Substack Mar 6, 2024 The recent ruling in Alabama regarding "frozen embyros" can't help but evoke memories of the trial of John T. Scopes. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Robert Reich: America Is Rotting From the Top

Robert Reich / Truthdig Mar 8, 2019 Whatever the president may say, whomever he may scapegoat, the true threat to our country comes from billionaires and powerful corporations. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: The Decade That Roared, and Wept

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Dec 8, 2018 The Roaring ’20s ushered in a new modernity and energy but also held the seeds of a great and devastating economic depression. Dig deeper ( 30 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: A Savage ‘War to End All Wars,’ and a Failed Peace

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Nov 24, 2018 World War I caused deaths on a then-unimaginable scale, sowed the seeds of WWII and forever restricted our civil liberties. Dig deeper ( 24 Min. Read )

Politics

American History for Truthdiggers: Wealth, Squalor in the Progressive Era

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Oct 27, 2018 Populism and progressivism were fueled by idealistic dreams, but in the end they were dragged down by self-interest and racism. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

The Birth of American Empire

H. Patricia Hynes / Truthdig Jul 20, 2018 Stephen Kinzer's book illuminates the decisions of 1898-1902 that set the course of American wars and the overthrow of governments into the 21st century. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘My Party Has Lost Its Soul’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 28, 2014 In a Salon review Sunday of Ralph Nader's spring 2014 book "Unstoppable," Bill Curry, former White House counselor to President Bill Clinton, takes Democrats led by Clinton and Barack Obama to task for making their party an indentured servant of Wall Street and gifting economic populism to the right. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )