Truthdigger of the Week: Amal Clooney

BLANK Feb 22, 2015 Amal Clooney will represent 14 Irish prisoners who endured Britain’s version of Guantanamo in a case that, according to researcher Lauretta Farrell, has become “the benchmark by which other countries measure their ‘enhanced interrogation programs.’ ” Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Azerbaijani Journalist Khadija Ismayilova (Video)

BLANK Jan 5, 2015 Since early December, the dissident journalist and Truthdig Global Voices contributor has sat in jail as Azerbaijan's money-drenched ruling family and its allies have tried to figure out how to silence her for good.Since early December, the Truthdig Global Voices contributor has sat in jail as Azerbaijan's money-drenched ruling family and its allies have tried to figure out how to silence her for good. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Looking Back on 2014’s Truthdiggers of the Week

Staff / Truthdig Dec 29, 2014 Every week the Truthdig editorial staff selects a Truthdigger of the Week, a group or person worthy of recognition for speaking truth to power, breaking the story or blowing the whistle. Here are 10 Truthdiggers from 2014 we think are worth reflecting upon at the end of the year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Leslie Feinberg

BLANK Nov 24, 2014 The obituary of the pioneering transgender activist and author of the award-winning 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues reads like a biography of the instinct for justice. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Cuban Medical Workers Fighting Ebola

BLANK Nov 18, 2014 When the deadly international health crisis is over, the world will be morally indebted to a tiny island nation that has suffered economic attack from the U.S. for more than half a century. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ben Bradlee

BLANK Oct 26, 2014 David Remnick recalled that the man who directed The Washington Post's reporting on Watergate and the Pentagon Papers "wasn’t Noam Chomsky He was not an outsider or a leftist" But "he built an institution He gave it its ambition". Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Paul Verhaeghe

BLANK Oct 6, 2014 The Belgian psychotherapist's new book considers the impact of 30 years of neoliberal economics on the development of personal identity and cultural character in the West. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The Lawyers Suing to Protect Refugee Children

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jul 14, 2014 After fleeing a country with the worst murder rate in the world, and traveling more than a thousand miles while surviving corrupt officials, cartels and garden variety rape, an unaccompanied Honduran child would probably find herself in a courtroom trying to explain, via a translator, why she can't go back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Salwa Bugaighis

BLANK Jun 30, 2014 The life and death of the Libyan lawyer and human rights activist are sober reminders of the brutal opposition that confronts humanity's advocates.The life and recent death of the Libyan lawyer and human rights activist are sober reminders of the brutal opposition that confronts humanity's advocates. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Gao Yu

BLANK Jun 2, 2014 The journalist's detention before the 25th anniversary of the slaughter at Tiananmen Square shows the Chinese government's determination to repress those pursuing democracy.The journalist's detention before the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square shows the Chinese government's determination to repress those pursuing democracy. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Derrick Gordon

BLANK Apr 13, 2014 The NCAA Division I basketball player's coming out makes it easier to believe the next generation of Americans are more socially tolerant than their elders. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Rep. Alan Grayson (Video)

BLANK Mar 22, 2014 If the Democratic Party has an honorable future in America, it lies with firebrands of populism like Alan Grayson. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )