Dinosaur Speak

Clearly, Truthdig readers were there for it all over the last year, tuning in weekly for the reality checks Hedges was uniquely able to p...

Pond reflection. TS

Hedges on Hersh. TS

Each New Year’s, my wife and I indulge one of our favorite traditions: the household purge. We scour our closets for stuff that’s just ta...

Two very different “populisms” that have arisen in response to neoliberal capitalism in the West.-- PS Note the differences. The whole...

Over the last eighteen years as I wrote for many progressive outlets, editors often asked me not to mention the word “neoliberalism,” bec...

Google is a menace to society.  The behemoth has my account all screwed up.  Have to create a new password every time I try to log on. ...

My new used computer arrived today, along with a cash gift from a friend who simply has good timing. Thanks new used computer, and than...

The American political drama, or electoral theatre, is reinforced so aggressively because it is the most basic and effective distraction p...

Anthony DiMaggio lecture. A shortened, accompanying text. TS

I'm a little late with this, as with all else, but the poet Tom Clark died August 23 at age 77, three days after being struck by an au...

Sadly, as a nation, the U.S. doesn’t recall Cheney’s lies, or his role in planning the contemptible “Shock and Awe” saturation bombing ca...

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Here’s a thought: What if the media just stopped covering Trump on a daily basis? Why must they dutifully replay every infuriating word f...

DURHAM, NH—Blaming those with a differing worldview for sowing rampant discord in society, political scientists at the University of New ...