Freddie deBoer / TruthdigDec 20, 2024
Cultural commentary once tried to explain how society could do a little bit better. Now the point is to tell people only what they want to hear. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigNov 5, 2017
To stand against power requires us to embrace virtues that are an anathema to mass culture and today’s politics. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
John Dean / TruthdigAug 9, 2017
An effort should be launched to educate our president. His desecration of traditions could pose a constitutional crisis. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
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Joe Conason / TruthdigJan 16, 2016
Demagogues denigrating New York come and go with boring predictability -- and the nation's greatest city will continue to thrive long after the Texas senator is merely an unpleasant memory. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 12, 2013
Researchers at UCLA put 1.5 million English-language books into a tool that catalogs phrase usage and found that "over the last 200 years there has been an ever-increasing use of particularly acquisitive words: 'get', 'unique', 'individual', 'self', 'choose'; while over the same period 'give' and 'obliged' decreased," Owen Hatherley writes at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 22, 2010
A new Gallup poll shows that American attitudes about the Republicans and Democrats are similar to attitudes in 1994, when the Democrats lost Congress. More Americans, Gallup claims, say they share Republican values and a Republican view of government. Americans feel that neither party, however, really understands their problems. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigJun 1, 2009
Way back in 2004, pollsters and pundits just knew that cultural and moral issues were the wave of the future. But a funny thing happened on the road to the revival tent. Updated Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 26, 2008
Right, so it was clear that things were going to change a bit at The Wall Street Journal when it became a part of the Murdochian Empire, but this is a little much: In this somewhat startling essay, Andrew Klavan sees a "W" where others see Batman's bat symbol in "The Dark Knight" and believes the film is a "paean of praise" to President Bush. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 2, 2008
Politicians usually try to explain away their records once they bid for higher office Take the case of just about any big-time Democrat and the issue of gay marriage But San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who formally launched an exploratory bid Tuesday for the California governorship, says he's not worried about his gay rights legacy: "We're about civil rights and equal rights, you better believe it I'm proud of that, I'm not going to hide from that". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigJun 5, 2007
Two questions from Sunday's Democratic debate: Does Joe Biden have to set himself on fire to get serious attention? And whatever happened to the lunch bucket issues that once made Democrats the dominant political party in America? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigDec 7, 2006
My mother died last month at 92. At the end, she had lost much of what she had. But, still, she left treasures. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigOct 19, 2006
The equation between "values voters" and conservative evangelical Christians has become so automatic that no one even noticed that the Values Voters Summit was held on Rosh Hashanah, a high holy day on the Jewish calendar. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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