‘Left, Right & Center’: July 4 and the Meaning of America

Staff / Truthdig Jul 6, 2013 On this Independence Day-themed show, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists ponder the meaning of America. If our nation was founded by revolutionaries, what would they think of our current surveillance practices, economic opportunities, gay rights and foreign policy? Is NSA leaker Edward Snowden in the tradition of the founders of this country? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Happy Birthday

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Independence From Terror

By Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers Jul 4, 2013 Do we write words of mourning? Or do we write words of resistance? Those two braids have joined and from now on will flow together -- in our age of the Anthropocene. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Freedom and ‘Our Sacred Honor’

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jul 4, 2013 We find ourselves, 237 years after the Founders declared us a new nation, in a season of discontent, even surliness, about the experiment they launched. We are sharply divided over the very meaning our founding documents, and we are more likely to invoke the word "we" in the context of "us" versus "them" than in the more capacious sense that includes every single American. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

This Independence Day, Thank a Protester

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jul 4, 2013 More than 160 years ago, the greatest abolitionist in U.S. history, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, addressed the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Economic Fireworks

Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News Jul 5, 2012 Dig deeper

Dueling Fireworks Shows

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call Jul 5, 2011 Dig deeper

Boeing

Eric Allie, Caglecartoons.com Jul 5, 2011 Dig deeper

Independence From Obama

Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons Jul 5, 2011 Dig deeper

Rocket’s Red Glare

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jul 4, 2011 Dig deeper

What Our Declaration Really Said

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jul 4, 2011 Our nation confronts a challenge this Fourth of July that we face but rarely: We are at odds over the meaning of our history and why, to quote our Declaration of Independence, "governments are instituted." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

No Fireworks for Cash-Strapped Cities

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2011 Here's a Catch-22 for the tea party movement: Cities across the country are going without Independence Day celebrations this year due to budget cuts. We know how our tax-hating friends love to wave flags and celebrate the late 1700s, but somebody has to pay for all those explosives, and, more often than not, it's us. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )