Town Hall: Black Baltimoreans Discuss How the Media and State Treat Them

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 8, 2015 While Fox and CNN were telling you what to think about black Americans in Baltimore and their response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, The Real News Network convened a discussion in which community members were free to speak for themselves. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘The Bells of Easter Sunday Are Actually a Call to War’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 5, 2015 A careful look at the Gospels may offer a picture of the original Easter message that is more startling than the theme of lilies, chocolate and eternal salvation that prevails today, writes Brandon Ambrosino in The Boston Globe. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Young Jews to ‘Pharaoh’ Netanyahu: ‘Let the Palestinian People Go’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 27, 2015 Increasingly, younger Jews are opposing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “open racism and obstinate refusal to help create a Palestinian state,” Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine writes. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

On Nerd Pain

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 2, 2015 In response to a vulnerable personal comment on "nerd trauma and male privilege" published by MIT professor Scott Aaronson, New Statesman editor and columnist Laurie Penny wrote a compassionate and highly desirable essay on the experiences of pain, frustration and loneliness common to both nerdy males and females in general. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Black Bodies, Broken Worlds and a Post-Tax Society

By Vijay Prashad, CounterPunch Dec 11, 2014 Somewhere in America tonight, another poor person who the police deem a threat will be killed. Tomorrow another, and then another. These deaths are not an outrage against this system. They are normal for this system. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Joan of Arc

By Marie Arana Nov 21, 2014 In a new biography of the French girl freedom-fighter, it isn't the maid of Orleans who receives the blazing light of scrutiny so much as the society that engulfed her and the literary imagination in which she endures. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Indiscriminate Compassion of Haneen Zoabi

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 14, 2014 In a government driven mad and violent by self-interest and fear, the Israeli legislator is battling enemies many of her peers appear not to see. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Into Pakistan’s Textile Factories

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2011 The “haves” have been subjecting the “have-nots” to lives of miserable, crushing toil since polarized hierarchies appeared behind the walls of the world’s first city some 10,000 years ago. The names, faces and technologies change, but so far, the legacy of exploitation remains. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Apr 2, 2009 Afghanistan's women are no longer in vogue. President Karzai has just signed a law that forces them to obey their husbands' sexual demands and in general again consigns them to lives of brutal repression. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Stephen Colbert on California Republicans

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2007 Inspired by a nefarious scheme to divert California's electoral votes to the GOP, Stephen Colbert looks into the oppression of California's Republicans: "They must be under attack. Why else would so many of them live in gated communities?" Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Under the Shroud: Women and the Taliban

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2006 The Feminist Majority's Lorraine Sheinberg created the 1999 documentary that first focused attention on the Taliban's brutal oppression of women in Afghanistan. It's worth another look now. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Serious Miscalculations About Syria

Tyler Golson / Truthdig Dec 1, 2005 A young scholar who has lived in Damascus finds it not a "rogue state" but a complex, jittery mosaic surprisingly receptive to America. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )