Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges, a weekly columnist for Truthdig, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, including 15 years at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief. His most recent book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a collaboration with comics artist and journalist Joe Sacco, is a brutally honest account of their travels through America’s “sacrifice zones." Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisLynnHedges.
ALL POSTS BY Chris Hedges
September 12, 2017The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end.
March 23, 2017The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental.
July 20, 2015Unfettered capitalism is designed to callously extract money from the most vulnerable and funnel it upward, writes Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges.
December 18, 2013In a moving post, journalist Chris Hedges recounts his experience teaching writing to 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison.
May 20, 2013Chris Hedges writes that we must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species. He believes rebellion is the only way to remain fully human.
March 25, 2013Journalist Chris Hedges marks the day Phil Donahue was fired by MSNBC for opposing the war in Iraq as the day that TV news became a "carnival act."
July 19, 2012Journalist Chris Hedges tells the story of Camden, New Jersey resident Lolly Davis.
July 19, 2012To blast Blair Mountain into rubble would obliterate a piece of American history that coal companies would rather we forget.
