California’s Highest-Paid State Employee Needs a Job

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Nov 20, 2017 UCLA has fired football coach Jim Mora, who is owed more than $12 million after being set to make roughly $3.7 million a year through 2021. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Arnold Mesches’ Death Closes a Chapter on Socially Conscious Art in American History

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Nov 24, 2016 Throughout his long and distinguished career, the artist used his talent to provide incisive visual commentary about the major social and political issues of his time. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Donald Trump’s Presidential Victory Sparks Nationwide Protests

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Nov 10, 2016 As Americans took in the news that Trump will be the nation's 45th president, many of them apparently decided not to take it sitting down. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

College Football: The Game Is Big Business

Allen Barra / Truthdig Sep 3, 2016 UCLA signed a 12-year, $280 million deal with sports apparel company Under Armour before the season began. It is the most lucrative apparel contract in sports history, but in the competitive world of endorsement deals, don’t expect the Bruins (head coach Jim Mora, pictured) to stay No. 1 for long. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Two Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide at UCLA

Staff / Truthdig Jun 2, 2016 Thousands of students barricaded themselves in their classrooms on Wednesday morning. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Watch Former Rep. Barney Frank Give His Take on Campaign 2016

Staff / Truthdig Nov 4, 2015 Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank spent nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, so he knows a thing or two about what presidential elections look like from inside the Washington bubble. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What’s the Point of a Professor?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 10, 2015 When he was a student in the early 1980s, Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein and his peers spoke with their professors regularly and at length, knowing “that these moments were the heart of liberal education.” Today, polls show, one-third of students never do so. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Watts Towers

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Nov 14, 2014 A new book celebrates Sabato Rodia's towers in Watts, a massive sculptural lifework of a whimsical eccentric, made from found objects and without power tools or scaffolding. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How Kafkaesque Bureaucrats Are Ruining Education

Wellford Wilms / Truthdig Aug 19, 2013 Last week the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the nation, opened its doors for the new school year. The following story is a sobering tale of bureaucracy run amok, to the detriment of its schoolchildren.The following story is a sobering tale of bureaucracy run amok, to the detriment of schoolchildren. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Study: Zero Child Abuse in Lesbian Households

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2010 Someone call Focus on the Family: A newly published set of findings from a long-running study out of UCLA shows a child abuse rate of zero percent in dual-mommy households. A pool of 78 teenage children with lesbian parents was studied. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Liberating the Schoolhouse

BLANK May 1, 2008 UCLA professor Wellford Wilms, one of the nation's leading authorities on the crisis of public education in America, offers a must-read counterpoint to Bush's blather about "No Child Left Behind." Dig deeper ( 45 Min. Read )

Religion, Politics and the End of the World

BLANK Jun 18, 2007 For readers who weren't able to attend the Truthdig debate between Sam Harris and Chris Hedges, we now have full coverage. So sit back, relax and enjoy the fireworks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )