Real Business Leaders Want to Save Capitalism

Robert Reich / Truthdig Jun 21, 2014 A few weeks ago I was visited in my office by the chairman of one of the country’s biggest high-tech firms who wanted to talk about the causes and consequences of widening inequality and the shrinking middle class, and what to do about it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Let Them Eat NCAA Brackets

David Sirota / Truthdig Mar 28, 2014 There are many modern-day analogies to Marie Antoinette's attitude toward the proles during the 18th century, but nothing quite like Warren Buffett's billion-dollar giveaway. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Coal Terminal Averted in Washington State?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 28, 2013 Four progressives won seats this month on the council in Whatcom County, where coal interests have ambitions to put a $600 million international terminal whose exports would add 86.7 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bill Gates Will Pay You as Much as $1 Million for a Better Condom

Staff / Truthdig Mar 23, 2013 Condoms are cheap and effective, but they also diminish sexual pleasure, and that gets in the way of lifesaving. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Senate Passes VAWA, O’Reilly Visits Letterman, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Feb 13, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including an excerpt from President Obama's State of the Union speech and Chuck Hagel clears a big hurdle in the Senate. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

GOP Backs Off Norquist Anti-Tax Pledge, Fox News Dissed on Fox News, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 27, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including another legal challenge to President Obama's health care law and billionaire Warren Buffet discusses what Congress should do about taxing the wealthy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Mitt Romney: ‘Tax Avoider on a Grand Scale’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 4, 2012 Joseph Stiglitz, “one of the few members of the economics profession committed to scientific empiricism, not ideology or servitude to the rich,” as one reader put it, writes that the habit of tax avoidance typical of Mitt Romney’s class makes it difficult to publicly fund things like education, technology, and infrastructure, upon which modern economies depend to flourish. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Buffett Buys Newspapers, Bucks Dying Media Trend

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2012 The billionaire investor paid $142 million and offered hundreds of millions more in loans and credit to buy Media General, the owner of 63 local U.S. newspapers covering the American South. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

IRS Form 1040 Buffett

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call Apr 17, 2012 Dig deeper

Republicans Block the Buffett Rule

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2012 Senate Republicans shot down a move to open debate on a rule supported by President Obama, congressional Democrats and the billionaire investor for whom it’s named that would force the wealthiest Americans to pay a minimum tax rate of 30 percent. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

An Argument Obama Can Win

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jan 27, 2012 If you heard a loud "gulp" Tuesday night after President Obama's State of the Union address, it probably came from Republican political strategists as they realized their party's odds of capturing the White House this fall are getting longer. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Bernanke and Buffett Talk About Occupy Wall Street

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2011 Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and multibillionaire Warren Buffett spoke to CNN Money about the Occupy Wall Street protests. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )