Staff / TruthdigMar 6, 2013
The Walton family, better known as the Walmart heirs, have invested millions in trying to privatize Los Angeles public schools; perhaps the true culprit of the sequester is President Obama; meanwhile, the former pope's resignation can be seen as a sound surrender rather than a cowardly abdication. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigMar 6, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including a major development in the confirmation hearing of John Brennan and Jeb Bush flip-flops on immigration reform once more. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigMar 5, 2013
On his program Monday night, Jon Stewart said that the sequester, which took effect Friday, was like an "autoerotic asphyxiation" for Congress. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigMar 5, 2013
I’d make clear to the American people that they made a choice in 2012 but that right-wing House Republicans have been blocking that choice, and the only way to implement that choice is for Congress to pass the Build America’s Future Act. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigMar 5, 2013
Where is the Occupy movement now that the depravity of the super rich is on full display? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigMar 5, 2013
I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. "Sequester" is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive, but ungrammatical as well. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigMar 4, 2013
The “sequester” is actually, of course, the American form of austerity, or cutbacks in government spending during a recession. Austerity, or stingy government in Europe has kept employment extremely depressed compared to what it would have been with government stimulus, as Paul Krugman argues. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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