Occupy Targets Obama

Staff / Truthdig Jan 2, 2012 Occupy Des Moines protesters decide it's high time to occupy the Democratic headquarters, and they won't be the last; Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" gets more viewers than Fox News; and one of America's most visible poets fell out of grace thanks to a racist poem. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Green ‘New Deal’ Now

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jun 17, 2010 Clearly the president understands what is at stake. And he apparently senses renewed opportunity in the wake of the Gulf catastrophe, which illustrates the problems of oil dependency with harrowing urgency. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )