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There’s more than a little tragic irony in how HBO’s version of the classic comic fumbled so spectacularly on racial politics.
Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s plan to revamp democracy and put capital in the hands of the people has one glaring blind spot.
The U.S. government’s attack on the WikiLeaks founder covers up a menacing assault on the First Amendment, argues journalist Bruce Shapiro.
After every system failed her, Susan Burton became the helping hand she and so many other formerly incarcerated women needed.
Nazi Germany’s crimes and the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not be so different in the eyes of international law.
How did waterboarding and mass surveillance become normalized in the post-9/11 CIA? Who was part of the agency's "Manson Family"? Read on.
Was it conspiracy or idiocy that led to the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to detect and prevent the 2001 terror attacks?
"The Kremlinologist" authors Jenny and Sherry Thompson discuss their landmark book, Soviet communism and the real dangers of nuclear war.
Podcast creator R.J. Cutler tells Truthdig he's flooded with material to work with in making satirical fun of what goes down inside the Trump White House every week.
In the only interview the former Army second lieutenant has given, Rapone describes the "culture that glorified violence" in the military and corrects the record about how he left.