What #Oprah2020 Says About the State of American Politics

[Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists]( Friday, January 12, 2018 Featured story POLITICS [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [What #Oprah2020 Says About the State of American Politics]( By Sonali Kolhatkar — The American people deserve better than another television celebrity with zero political experience as their president. [Read more]( Opinion WAR ON DRUGS [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Why Jeff Sessions Loves Pot Prohibition]( By Harvey Wasserman — The drug war is a cash cow for prison owners, cops, guards, lawyers, judges, bailiffs and others. [Read more]( POLITICS [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Trump's Nuclear Threat Warrants Removal From Office]( By Marjorie Cohn  — The president's cavalier threat to start a nuclear holocaust cannot be dismissed as the rant of an immature bully. [Read more]( WOMEN [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Surprising Ways Voter Suppression Hurts Women]( By Mandy Velez — Donald Trump got one thing right: The voting system is “rigged"—though not in the way he thinks. [Read more]( International [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Assad and Russia Extend Control Over West Syria]( By Juan Cole — Despite President Trump's one-off firing of missiles over the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons last spring, the U.S. appears to have ceded the area to Russia. [Read more]( Activism [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign Reborn]( By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan — A new coalition forms to advance the civil rights leader's call for “a radical redistribution of economic and political power.” [Read more]( INTERNATIONAL [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Israel Is Exposing Africans to Danger of Slavery]( By David Sheen — Some are being forced out of Israel and eventually fall into captivity in Libya, where they are tortured and raped, mutilated and murdered. [Read more]( Cartoon [Occupational Hazards]( By Mr. Fish  [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Donate Today!]( [Follow Truthdig on Twitter]( [Follow Truthdig on Facebook]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}, by newsletter@truthdig.com [Support Truthdig]( | [Contact Us]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Update Profile]( | [Forward To A Friend](