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Mexico First: How Mexico Plans To Weather Trump’s Tariffs

Madeleine Wattenbarger / Truthdig Feb 27, 2025 As the U.S. pressures its southern neighbor to cut ties with China, Mexico looks to boost its own economy. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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Meet the Pistachio Barons Who Control California’s Water

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Feb 26, 2025 A new documentary lifts the curtain on a real-world ‘Chinatown.’ Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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Napoleon in a Clown Nose

Bill Blum / Truthdig Feb 24, 2025 Trump’s assaults on the rule of law are crude and sometimes clownish, but the paradigm shift driving them has been carefully planned. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Donald Trump’s Napoleonic Delusions

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DOGE

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The Department of Government Exploitation

Conor Lynch / Truthdig Feb 20, 2025 The Trump-Musk assault on the federal workforce aims to complete the neoliberal project of privatizing every aspect of government. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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Toward a People’s AI

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Feb 19, 2025 DeepSeek isn’t fully “open source.” But the Chinese-made artificial intelligence does raise the question of what an AI, by and for the people, rather than corporations, might look like. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

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The Party That Refuses to Take Shots Loses

Jeb Lund / Truthdig Feb 17, 2025 The Democrats’ cowardly top-down messaging has never been good. But has it ever been worse? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

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Fragility and Resilience: Glimpses of Rojava

Angéline Desdevises / Truthdig Feb 13, 2025 Photographer Angéline Desdevises captures life in Kurdish Syria, where the region's boldest democratic experiment finds new sources of resilience amid fresh rubble and political uncertainties. Dig deeper

The Troll King

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Rojava on the Brink

Matt Broomfield / Truthdig Feb 13, 2025 Turkish airstrikes and an Islamist power in Damascus endanger the future of Syrian Kurdistan’s multiethnic democratic federation. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

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There Will Be No Questions

Eli Zeger / Truthdig Feb 7, 2025 Of everything lost in the age of streaming, no film genre casualty is as regrettable — or as ripe for a comeback — as the paranoid political thriller. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )