From Andrew Jackson's reign to reining in the Fed: This week in Truthdig Originals

[Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists]( Sunday, July 29, 2018 Featured story national (U.S.A.) [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [American History for Truthdiggers: Andrew Jackson’s White-Male World and the Start of Modern Politics]( By Maj. Danny Sjursen — He was a historic champion of the common man, but he was also a power-obsessed bigot and perhaps the most divisive U.S. president ever. [Read more]( economy & Business opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [How Trump Could Rein In the Fed]( By Ellen Brown — The president is not happy with Federal Reserve policy and is in a position to do something about it. But if he is going to change the makeup of the Federal Reserve Board, he must appoint people who understand how to kick-start the economy. [Read more]( multimedia [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Are Billionaire Publishers Good for Journalism?]( By Robert Scheer — American news consumers, take heed: This is no inside-baseball story of media intrigue. What happens to local outlets reaches far beyond their markets and into everyone's backyard. Robert Scheer and Nick Goldberg break it all down in an in-depth interview. [Listen]( opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Billionaires in Space: Escapist Fantasies in the 'Age of the Refugee']( By Jacob Bacharach — After exhausting all of earth's resources, the superrich are ready to colonize other worlds. [Read more]( national opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths]( By Lee Camp — You cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current world or even just our nation, but we choose to continue to live like this. [Read more]( opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Will 2018 Be the Year Americans Finally Face Up to Climate Change?]( By Natasha Hakimi Zapata — Two recently released studies paint a new, somewhat hopeful picture of Americans' thoughts on climate change, and the change of heart is long overdue. [Read more]( international opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( ['Putin's War on America' Is Nothing Compared With U.S. War on Democracy]( By Paul Street — In the wake of Helsinki, missing from "Russiagate" media hysteria is the question of who will protect us from the influence of U.S. oligarchs. [Read more]( opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [The Arrest of Julian Assange Appears Near]( The Truthdig Staff — The Intercept is reporting that Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno is in London to "finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange," exposing him to British arrest. [Read more]( activism opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [All the President’s Lies (and How to Counter Them)]( By Sonali Kolhatkar — It’s not enough to point out Donald Trump’s constant barrage of false claims. At a minimum, they must be countered before their effects become irreversible. [Read more]( opinion [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [In Defense of Dissenters]( By Teodrose Fikre — American voters who sit out elections are often the targets of scorn; instead of blaming them, we should focus on overhauling the system. [Read more]( ear to the ground [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [What Makes Millennial Socialism Different]( By Natasha Hakimi Zapata — As writer Ben Judah argues, the Occupy movement, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders changed this generation's thinking, and made a come-from-behind win like that of New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible. [Read more]( race film review [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [In Reality, Every Night Is ‘Purge’ Night]( By Leslie Lee — Class- and race-conscious and uncomfortably relevant, the politically charged horror franchise doesn’t just amount to a big-screen nightmare. [Read more]( ear to the ground [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Is Prone to Racial Profiling, Report Says]( By Ilana Novick — An ACLU test of the tech giant’s Rekognition product confirms consumer advocates’ fears. [Read more]( Cartoons [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [The Endangered Species Academy (Video)]( By Mark Fiore — The Donald J. Trump “regime” is on track to gut the Endangered Species Act, a law that has been keeping plants and animals from going extinct for 45 years. [Watch]( [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Digging in the Dirt]( By Mr. Fish — [See the full cartoon]( [Donate Today!]( [Follow Truthdig on Twitter]( [Follow Truthdig on Facebook]( Truthdig 1158 26th St., No. 443 Santa Monica, CA 90403-4698 This email was sent to {EMAIL}, by [email protected]( [Support Truthdig]( | [Contact Us]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Update Profile]( | [Forward To A Friend](