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Dig Scape

Pollution: Our Criminal Folly

bart plantenga / Truthdig Dec 21, 2022 DIG•SCAPE is an audio alternative-phenomenological-impressionistic, mulitcultural soundscape mashup of loud issues, intuition+research and multisampled insights investigating our current wackadoodle malaise from an askew, engaged and anomalous vantage point. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Robert Bork smoking a cigarette superimposed in front of the Supreme Court building which is drenched in red light.

Digs

Robert Bork’s Revenge

Bill Blum / Truthdig Dec 19, 2022 How the Supreme Court was remade in the image of the original Originalist. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Courts & Law

Major Cases of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Term

Bill Blum / Truthdig Dec 19, 2022 The court is now firmly controlled by an emboldened super-majority of right-wing politicians dressed in black robes. These are the cases where they likely will do the most damage this term. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Courts & Law

The Worst Decisions of the Roberts Court (A Partial List)

Bill Blum / Truthdig Dec 19, 2022 Reasonable minds can differ about the most regressive opinions of the Roberts Court. But here are the decisions that should make any court-watcher's list. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Steam boats sit in New York Harbor pushing steam from their chimneys in front of the Statue of Liberty in this black and white image from 1886.

Interviews

Ken Burns’ Other Lens

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Dec 16, 2022 America’s most famous visual storyteller shifts gears in a new book. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Film Review

The Dissident’s Camera

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Dec 16, 2022 Jafar Panahi’s final film before his imprisonment is also his most self-reflexive. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

The Importance of “Breakthrough” Designation in Drug Policy

Russell Hausfeld / Truthdig Dec 15, 2022 What’s good for Pharma isn’t always good for average drug users. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Ear to the Ground

The Bill Comes Due for FTX

Michael Deibert / Truthdig Dec 14, 2022 Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Photo Essay

Where Gentrification Meets Joyful Resistance (Photo Essay)

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Dec 13, 2022 Lori Powers and the public art tradition in Los Angeles. Dig deeper

Military

Ready, Set, Reset

Russell Hausfeld / Truthdig Dec 7, 2022 The notion of psychedelic treatment as a “reset” for the brain has become exceedingly popular, but the expectations instilled by this type of language can be harmful to patients. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Middle East

Woman Life Freedom

Kamin Mohammadi / Truthdig Dec 7, 2022 In the towns of Kurdistan, the regime’s security forces not only use bullets and gas in the streets, but shoot people inside their homes and cars. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Grift Brothers

Émile P. Torres / Truthdig Dec 5, 2022 It’s easy to give away part of your income—and sound saintly announcing this on TV—when you have, say, a mansion in the Bahamas or multi-million-dollar budgets to promote your projects and your brand. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )