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Adbusters’ Ads Busted

Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine,… more

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Spain to Senegal: Stay Home

In September 2007, Senegalese television viewers saw the image of a drowned body washed up on a rocky… more

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Shape Up and Ship Out

How the Pentagon can cut the military budget and still keep us safe

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Secular Jews and the ‘Jewish State’

American Jews remain, along with African Americans, the most left-leaning ethnic community in the country. While many support… more

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The Clinton Firewall

The New York Senator's last-ditch efforts to win the Democratic nomination could rely on the "Race Chasm" and the trampling of democracy.

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Caricaturing Danish Muslims

In early 2006, violence across the Islamic world rocked the quaint Scandinavian country of Denmark after one of… more

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Is Wright Right About Racism?

Since the 1960s, bigotry has undergone an aesthetic makeover. Today, the most pernicious racists do not wear pointy… more

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Seattle Battles the Homeless

Underneath the I-5 highway in south Seattle, Isaac Palmer had found a spot to sleep. Hidden away from… more

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Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards

Ten miles outside Eugene in west central Oregon, little wooden houses and mobile homes make up the town… more

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Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla

Who would have thought that we might ever miss Ross Perot? Squawking at us with his graphs and… more

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Showdown

The Udall Boys lead the Democratic charge for the Senate

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‘Yes, We Can’… Do What?

By now, we're used to the static that accompanies the election season. It's a streaming wave of wordplay,… more

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New Housing Crisis, Old Isms

The Federal Reserve Bank's decision last week to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed… more

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Actors Union Copies Writers’ Script

Strikes are rare these days. And winning one is almost as rare as sighting an ivory-billed woodpecker. But… more

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Vermont Argues Iraq War is ‘Mission Expired’

While Congress runs out the clock on President Bush's Iraq War, some Vermont legislators hope to spark a… more

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Beyond Propaganda

Oil giant BP greenwashes Alberta tar sands

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The Man or the Movement

In writing a book about Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, I wondered whether it was the people… more

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The War That Never Ends

Iraq Veterans Against the War's 'Winter Soldier' hearings revealed the awful truths of the occupation and the ongoing struggle for those who have returned home.

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Pig Intestines, Downer Cows

Corruption and incompetence in federal bureaucracies are enough to make your blood run thin. In February, the Food… more

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Kenya’s Indy Media

While news reports across the world have displayed images of chaos shaking Kenya, an alternative media system driven… more

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Remembering What Nixon Learned

A half century ago, Richard Nixon spearheaded his party's national congressional campaign in the face of a recession… more

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The Nadir of Nader

He's back. And he's got your back. Yes, Ralph Nader has thrown down that withering, raggedy old gauntlet… more

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Big Oil Imperils Polar Bears

Just when it seemed like things couldn't get any worse for the polar bear, Big Oil is moving… more

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Recruiting Spies in the Peace Corps

Washington's blunder in Bolivia strains relations with the Morales government

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Red-Boating Obama

Sen. Barack Obama is many things to the right-wing noise machine: a crypto-Muslim, a drug-addled hoodlum, a snob… more

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Obamanomics

An energized constituency could push Obama's centrist economic plan to the left

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A Playwright’s Traumatic Vision

Christopher Shinn is about to become a force in American theater. The 32-year-old New Yorker's first play, "Four,"… more

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Hope in the Time of NAFTA

Reading articles about Hillary Clinton attacking NAFTA can lead you to believe The Onion has taken over America's… more

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You Go Lead, Girl!

State Senator Patricia Torres Ray (D–Minn.) has experience with media bias in America's political landscape. In 2006, when… more

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Salties Ordered to Swish and Spit

Zebra mussels, "bloody red shrimp," quagga mussels and round gobies are a few of the invasive species that… more

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The Malign Magic of Misdirection

It's the oldest trick in the book. The magician flashes the shiny object to misdirect the audience's attention… more

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Silenced in the Barracks

The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse

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The American Left: Liberals, Progressives and the Left

The term "progressive" has evolved a great deal over the past 35 years. By the '70s, many '60s… more

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The New Cartographers

What does it mean to map everything all the time?

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The New Permanent Campaign

In 1976, a young political consultant named Patrick Caddell sent a memo to Jimmy Carter telling the president-elect… more

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Why Have Latinos Started Voting For Obama?

Connecticut, the first state where they did, provides some instructive clues.

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Getting the Strait Story

"You will explode in a few minutes." According to the Pentagon, those menacing words, directed at U.S. warships,… more

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From Autocracy With Love

Even as one-horse races go, Russia's current presidential campaign lacks suspense. There seems little doubt that President Vladimir… more

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The Hippocratic Oath Dies in Gitmo

I have been representing Abdul Al-Ghizzawi, one of my Guantánamo clients, for two and a half years. The… more

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Cutting Women Out

The media's bias against female presidential candidates

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Joys of ‘The Wire’

Some critics have called HBO's hit series 'depressing' and 'nihilistic.' They couldn't be more wrong.

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A Trade Transformation

When it came to sex, Bill Clinton made us debate the definition of "is." Now, when it comes… more

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Missing: Minorities in Media

America was burning. The riots unleashed by the April 4, 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King… more

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It’s Also the Congress, Stupid

Empowering Capitol Hill progressives is just as important as presidental campaign platforms.

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Political Climate Change

Paul Krugman, president of the Hillary Clinton fan club, writes in his New York Times column that if… more

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Challenging Indian Land Trusts

Across Indian country, two things are never in short supply: rich natural resources and endemic poverty. That paradox… more

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FDNY Spies

In New York City, the Department of Homeland Security is training New York City firefighters to assist in… more

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Apocalyptic Activism at Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival is now the most important U.S. market for independent film. Because of the writers'… more

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The Candidate of the Permanent Will

To the consternation of news bureaus, political consulting firms and has-been politicians, the Wall Street Journal's poll last… more

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How Black is Obama?

How can racism still be a problem if so many white Americans are willing to support a black… more

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