On this week’s episode of “On Contact,” Truthdig contributor Chris Hedges sits down with two Philadelphia organizers to discuss why people should take to the streets to bring Democratic leaders’ attention to poverty and homelessness.
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By E.J. Dionne Jr. — Republicans who are not in the least progressive have reason to mourn what may come to pass: the transformation of the party of Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower into the party of Trump.
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By Michael Nigro —
Photojournalist Michael Nigro is streaming live video footage from outside the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland as protesters and activists take to the streets.
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By Emma Niles — Follow our live coverage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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By Michael Nigro —
What happens outside the 2016 Republican National Convention may be more interesting than what happens inside the star-spangled halls. Truthdig provides an on-the-ground perspective from Cleveland.
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The “Late Show” host hunted down two former “Daily Show” characters to help him deal with the fact that none other than Donald J. Trump is the GOP’s pick for president.
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By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet —
This year’s gathering makes Clint Eastwood’s 2012 empty-chair routine seem like a stroke of genius.
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The “Full Frontal” host gave a fast, clever and funny introduction to “conservatella 2016” on Monday night and interviewed two people with very different opinions about just how screwed the host city, Cleveland, will be during the convention.
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By Sarah Smith / ProPublica —
We took a look back at the career of the Indiana governor Donald Trump has picked as his running mate.
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By Juan Cole — During a recent MSNBC news discussion, the Iowa congressman objected to a comment that this will be the last election dominated by old, white people.
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Deadly incidents in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La., have Cleveland police fearing for their lives.
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If the U.S. can send its military into sovereign territories, why can’t Turkey, asks the former chief prosecutor of Guantanamo’s military commissions.
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By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch —
However they are achieved, the United States has now embraced extrajudicial executions on foreign soil. And most of the discussion has focused more on the new instrument—drone technology—than on its purpose: assassination.
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By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network —
Falling costs mean that power generated by offshore wind farms is becoming increasingly competitive with other fuels—and that’s good news for the climate.
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The seemingly fed up—but inevitably comical—“Late Show” host “took [his] gloves off” in his take on the Democratic presidential candidate’s email scandal, rapping, “You’re so bad at running for president, the only person you could beat is Donald Trump.”
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By Juan Cole — Donald Trump’s running mate supports faith-based restrictions that pose a danger to secular and liberal traditions in the United States.
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By E.J. Dionne Jr. — Donald Trump’s selection of the Indiana governor as his running mate is just what everyone is saying it is: a safe, traditional choice. But the pick is also—and more importantly—something else: a sign of real weakness.
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By Juan Cole — Turkey’s president is taking advantage of the failed coup against him to oust those who are critical of him.
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By Uri Avnery / CounterPunch —
I am convinced that it is in the vital interest of Israel to make peace with the Palestinian people, and with the Arab world at large, before the dangerous infection of extreme ideology engulfs the entire region.
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Parisians we interviewed caution politicians to avoid overreacting to the attack in Nice, France.
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