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No Brass Check Journalists
Upton Sinclair self-published a book called The Brass Check in 1919, 13 years after The Jungle. The brass check… more
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Cracking the Media Walls
The major news outlets are like walls with cracks. The confining structures of big media loom large every day—yet… more
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Supporting Young Thinkers
Right-wing foundations understand how to create dedicated ideologues. They target budding freshmen conservatives from their move-in day and support… more
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WW3 Illustrated
The startling cinematic success of American Splendor—an indie film uniquely merging the real-story-behind-the-film-story with the comic drawings that stand… more
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Seize the Moment
Many progressive Americans sense that we are at a watershed moment in our relationship to the mainstream media. Progressive… more
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The Candidates on the Media
Perhaps it’s surprising that most Democratic candidates are now speaking out on media ownership and deregulation of the public… more
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Winning the War of Ideas
If the triumph of the New Right could be blamed on one person, that villain might be Austrian economist… more
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PR Watch Has Its Eyes Open
Ten years ago John Stauber decided to take on the media arm of corporate America: the public relations industry.… more
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Creating Better Choices
We each inhabit our own individualized media landscape: We choose what we read, what we see and what we… more
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Racial Bias Still Haunts Media
The fight to contain the monopolistic impulses of the corporate media has galvanized media activists. Their efforts have borne… more
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Bush Meat
Human interference has long threatened wildlife throughout the world, including dietary habits imperiling endangered species in West Africa. But… more
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Son of a ...
It sounds like something from the pages of The Onion: “Son of Prominent Father Recommends Family Favoritism.” Unfortunately, Adam… more
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War on the Poor
“Under the way theyíre kind of writing it right now out of the Senate Finance Committee, some people could… more
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Using Your Brain on Drugs
Numerous tightly rolled cannabis cigarettes were in evidence at a June 12 luncheon at the Heartland Institute, a libertarian… more
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It’s Not Sleazy. It’s HBO.
Lobbyists have finally arrived. Washington—or at least the Roll Call-reading classes that traffic in inside-the-Beltway inside baseball—is abuzz over… more
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The Bushite Strategy ...
A September report by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that more than 1.3 million additional Americans fell into poverty… more
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The Candidates on the Poor
One thing about the 10 Democratic presidential challengers: They don’t put their feet in their mouths quite like the… more
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Free Trade at the Crossroad
The collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Cancun has greatly delayed the negotiations of any new expanded trade… more
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Undiscovered Country
The typical complaint goes something like this: Why open a huge, gleaming multiplex if three of those screens are… more
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Leaving Altar
Despite the Mexican government’s well-publicized crackdown in May on the smuggling business here and elsewhere along the border, this… more
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Kobe and the New Currency of ‘No’
In debating the high-profile felony sexual-assault case against Kobe Bryant over the past months, media commentators have been largely… more
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Warning! You Are Being Watched
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When History Catches Up
It’s a corollary to the Horatio Alger myth: Americans not only believe rags-to-riches ascendance is possible, they believe they… more
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This Is Not an Essay on Political Art
In November 2002, I took the Green Line of Chicago’s El for the first time. I went exactly one… more
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Roller Coaster of Coverage
The country’s seniors are debilitated by Medicaid and Medicare’s poor management, inadequate coverage, and meager attempts to compensate for… more
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The GOP’s Texas Power Grab
One of the major goals of the “southern strategy” pioneered by the Republican Party during the 1968 presidential campaign… more
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A Costly Preemption
The folly of the war in Iraq becomes more and more apparent as the bill for this misadventure is… more
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Ending the Cycle of Terror
As September 11, 2002 loomed, most everyone I knew in New York City was filled with a sense of… more
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9/11 at the Movies
Since Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, I have been expressing a mixture of hope and doubt concerning the subject of… more
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Learning To Love Leni Riefenstahl
The life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, who died on Monday at age 101, seems to lend itself to… more
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The WTO’s Broken Promise
Trade negotiators promised that “development” of the world’s poorer nations would be at the top of their agenda during… more
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A Woman of Influence
For many within the American civil rights movement, Ella Josephine Baker was a consummate organizer, a politically sophisticated intellectual,… more
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The Devil and Daniel Pipes
The Bush administration’s war on terrorism has done little so far but increase the ranks of potential terrorists. And… more
vol. 27, iss. 22
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