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Hard Times for Student Borrowers

Kelly Lynch, a former Columbia College Chicago film and video major, is paying educational loan lender Sallie Mae… more

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Avoiding the Torture Taint: Advice from Military Lawyers

Even as they worked out details of how interrogation techniques widely regarded as torture would be used on detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Pentagon officials sought to keep the blood off Defense Department hands

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Reporting From The Ground Up

The power of street reporting

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Freedom of the Press Moguls

The Newseum, the latest addition to Washington's sprawling, preening, self-singing monument-memorial complex, may boast a constitutional amendment engraved… more

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This Summer’s Trilogy of Truth

The future of the media is cloudy. In this brave new world of YouTube, Facebook and 400 cable… more

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Reading The Onion Seriously

Combining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media.

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The Price of One Iraqi Life

U.S. military tries to pacify grieving Iraqis with condolence payments

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‘The Kosovo Dilemma’ goes astray

The 1999 NATO-led bombing against Serbia was a humanitarian intervention, not a U.S. and European power grab

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The American Left: What Progressives Can Learn from Obama

One of the trademarks of Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been his commitment to a new style of… more

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Our Imperfect Unions

Pick almost any metric -- fraction of workers in unions, lag of pay behind productivity increases, growing hours… more

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Canaries in the Uranium Mine

Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land

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‘If the Detainee Dies, You’re Doing it Wrong

When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of harsh techniques, he did so over the objections of senior military attorneys from all branches of the armed services

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The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68

Forty years ago, what was revolutionized -- the world or capitalism?

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Countering Race With Class

In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the "us" and "them"… more

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Anthropologists At War

New military program that embeds anthropologists with soldiers has academics up in arms

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The Great Election Robbery of 2008?

Come Nov. 4, the elephant in the polling booth is the possibility that the 2008 presidential election will… more

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Dismantling the Myth of McCain

How the Republican senator's maverick image is a sham

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P.O.V.: A Home For Homeless Films

P.O.V. is one of those occasional reminders that public broadcasting matters. Every year, like its complementary series Independent… more

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A Textbook Case

AP students learn ABCs of right-wing talking points

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Israel’s Openly Secret Nukes

Foes of nuclear proliferation got two disturbing bits of news last month. One was the May 26 report… more

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ICE Cold to Kids

At 10 a.m. on May 12, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on a meat processing plant… more

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The Friendship Offensive

Peace activists on Capitol Hill hope to stave off war with Iran through cross-cultural contact between ordinary citizens

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The Divided States of America

After the first-ever televised presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy in 1960,… more

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An Anti-Clinton For VP

You can't turn on a television or have a conversation about politics without being accosted by speculation about… more

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On AIDS, Wright Is Wrong

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color," the… more

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Expand the Vote

The Obama campaign’s voter registration drive could radically alter the electoral map this fall

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Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

What role has sexism played in the race for the Democratic nomination? Hillary Clinton answered that seething question… more

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Death Squads in Oaxaca

The Mexican government ignores the assassination of two community radio activists

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The Right’s New Attack on Voters

Last April, as a national debate raged over whether Indiana's voter ID law protects election integrity or disenfranchises… more

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A General’s False Testimony

Will the Pentagon correct Major Gen. Jerome Johnson's tainted testimony on the contaminated water KBR provided to the troops?

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Does the E.U. Hate You?

Despite popular myth, anti-Americanism in Europe isn't on the rise

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The Populist Uprising

American history is the history of populist uprisings. From the Revolutionary War to the coalfield wars, from labor… more

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No Strings Attached?

How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence

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Red State, Green Campaign

This election year, one of the greenest campaigns is being run not in blue Massachusetts or California, but… more

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