Staff / TruthdigMar 18, 2023
Shortly after writing his “Last Letter” for Truthdig, Tomas Young decided to leave hospice and accept further medical treatment. He died on November 10, 2014, at the age of 34. Following his death, Phil Donahue published a remembrance of Young in the Nation, and Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges wrote a number of pieces for Truthdig. Nearly ten years after Young’s death, his suffering, struggle, courage, and fiery eloquence stand among our most powerful testaments to the incalculable human cost of a criminal and unnecessary war. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Kamin Mohammadi / TruthdigMar 16, 2023
There have been consistent reports of schoolgirls falling ill with mysterious symptoms in up to 300 schools across 25 provinces, according to local media reports, including in the capital Tehran with at least one student dead — an 11-year-old girl called Fatemeh Razaei — and some 5,000-7,000 hospitalized. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Bill Blum / TruthdigMar 10, 2023
Justice Elena Kagan addressed the legitimacy crisis in a talk before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Judicial Conference on July 24, 2022, in Montana. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Marc Cooper / TruthdigMar 8, 2023
Looking back at Chile's political history from President Salvador Allende's presidency to today Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Marc Cooper / TruthdigMar 8, 2023
Journalist Marc Cooper was serving as personal translator to Chilean president Salvador Allende when the 1973 U.S.-backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet forced him to flee the country. In January, Cooper returned to Santiago to observe the country’s political situation 50 years later. He found a Chile transformed but uncertain, struggling to chart a course forward one year after the election of its first leftist government since Allende. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )
Sara Luterman / The 19thMar 7, 2023
Friends and mentees remember Judy Heumann, mother of the disability rights movement Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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