U.S. Elections: A Poor Substitute for Democracy

Paul Street / Truthdig Nov 30, 2017 The voting booth is a bust for the kinds of change most Americans want. We must create grass-roots movements that shake the nation to its foundations. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Capitalism: The Nightmare

Paul Street / Truthdig Sep 20, 2017 As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future." Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Donald Trump’s Demolition Derby

By Bill Moyers / Moyers & Company Jan 29, 2017 In just a few days, the president seems to have set out to wreck government and turn over the remains to his plutocrat friends. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

What We Expect to See in 2017

Staff / Truthdig Jan 1, 2017 2016 is history. As we turn the page on this strange and difficult year, Truthdig editors and writers look ahead to what the new year might bring. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How We Reinvent Democracy in America

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Nov 2, 2016 We, the people, have more power than we think. To exercise our power, we must insist that our elected representatives serve us. If they don’t, we need to vote them out as quickly as possible. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

We the Plutocrats vs. We the People

By Bill Moyers / TomDispatch Sep 12, 2016 How would I help my fellow Americans recoup their sanity, come home to democracy, and help build the sort of moral compact embodied in the preamble to the Constitution, that declaration of America’s intent and identity? Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!

By Bill Moyers / Common Dreams Dec 28, 2015 The vast inequality that the plutocrats and the oligarchs are creating is a death sentence for government by consent of the people. This is the fight of our lives, and how it ends is up to us. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Plutocracy the First Time Around

By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch Apr 3, 2015 Aversion to the new industrial order and a “democratic feeling” in the late 19th century brought workers, storekeepers, lawyers and businessmen of all sorts together, appalled by the behavior of large industrialists who often enough didn’t live in those communities and so were the more easily seen as alien beings. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

What to Do About American Plutocracy

William Pfaff / Truthdig Nov 12, 2014 All is not lost. Change has happened in the past, against severe resistance, three times since the Civil War. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Even the 99 Percent Get Kidnapped in Mexico

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2014 Once the plutocrats' plague, kidnapping for ransom in Mexico has gone decidedly mass market. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nomi Prins on American Oligarchy

BLANK Mar 13, 2014 In this excerpt from the March 13, 2014 edition of Truthdig Radio, author and Truthdig contributor Nomi Prins says just a few families hold most of the power in the United States. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Inevitability of Income Inequality

Nomi Prins / Truthdig Mar 12, 2014 Inequality is endemic to the core structure of an America that operates more as a plutocracy than a democracy. It is an inherent result of the consolidation of a substantial amount of both financial power and political influence in the hands of a few families. Inequality is endemic to the core structure of an America that operates more as a plutocracy than a democracy. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )