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Truthdig Wins 5 EPPYs

Truthdig is honored to receive the following 2024 EPPY Awards from Editor & Publisher magazine, scoring five first place wins in the category for sites with fewer than 1...

1,001 Days of War

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Imagine you hear a ruckus, go...

Stored for Safe-Keeping, Never To Be Seen Again

This story was originally published by ProPublica.When Stephenie came upon workers in Portland, Oregon, who had bagged up...

Cashing In

Buying a presidency, it turns out, pays off. Tech billionaires who invested in President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign are...

The Houthis Aren’t Going Anywhere

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Houthis’ hijacking of the Galaxy Leader. On Nov. 19, 2023, military...

America’s Thousand Percent Prescription Drug Tariff

Readers are undoubtedly confused by the reference to 1000 percent tariffs on prescription drugs. We don’t call our protection for prescription drug companies “tariffs,”...

Neoliberals Are Wrong About Bidenomics

It is by now a familiar story. With the status quo in tatters following the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, a newly elected...

Presidential Debates Love To Avoid the Topic of Taxing the Rich

The first televised U.S. presidential debate came way back in 1960. Few of us who happened to watch that debate remember much about it....

The Steel Industry Merger That Has Environmentalists Worried

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.U.S. Steel, once the world’s largest company of any kind, can take substantial...

Why Space Is Such a Dangerous Place

The past year has witnessed a growing chorus of alarm in Washington regarding the military utility of space. From the proliferation of space debris to the...

The Trump Quartet

During election years, the media tends to focus on the top of the party tickets. When Donald Trump is one of the candidates, this...

Truthdig Wins 5 EPPYs