JENNIFER PELTZ / The Associated PressJan 30, 2020
Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll say the president's sample would be compared to "unidentified male DNA" on a dress she wore in 1990s encounter. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Elaine Margolin / TruthdigMar 2, 2018
Tom Sleigh travels to war zones and refugee camps, yet views intervention on his part as transgression. When does passivity become complicity? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJan 24, 2018
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings," the science fiction writer said in a 2014 speech. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff and Chris Hedges / TruthdigNov 28, 2017
The Truthdig columnist delves into his own journey as an author and educator during a recent speech. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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In this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer and Carroll discuss the climate for black writers. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigJul 18, 2016
Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 27, 2016
Noting that they are “aware of the many ways that language can be abused in the name of power,” hundreds of writers expressed their opposition to a possible Trump presidency. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 5, 2015
A sometimes acrid essay by an author and former creative writing professor delivers some tough love to people hoping to become published writers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Jean Randich / TruthdigJun 6, 2014
Lauren B. Davis' novel dissects the patterns of fear, denial, lies and justification that propel an alcoholic further into an addiction that destroys everything she has and is. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 26, 2013
Directors of the nonprofit Write A House are bent on fixing up some portion of the Michigan city's thousands and thousands of vacant and blighted homes and handing them over to writers for virtually nothing, forever. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 22, 2013
Of more than 500 writers polled by PEN International, a writers rights and advocacy group, 16 percent said knowledge of NSA surveillance led them to abandon writing projects they thought could attract unwanted government attention. An additional 11 percent said they've "seriously considered it." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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