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Culture
By Fred Weir
April 28, 2005

No Reason to Exist

The steam explosion that tore the roof from Chernobyl’s fourth unit in the pre-dawn hours of April 26, 1986,… more

vol. 29, iss. 12

News
By Dave Lindorff
April 27, 2005

GMs Healthcare Double Standard

Bad ideology trumps good business

vol. 29, iss. 12 corporations medical & health

Features
By Dean Baker
April 26, 2005

Numbers Before Politics

Since last autumn’s Republican victory, progressives have engaged in considerable soul searching. The most basic question has been: Why… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 economy media

Culture
By Kevin Y. Kim
April 25, 2005

A History Unaccredited

Hip-hop has no standing archives. Like the seminal works of the few who’ve come before—David Toop’s Rap Attack, Tricia… more

vol. 29, iss. 12

News
By Aaron Sarver
April 25, 2005

Media for the People

The accomplishments of the Urbana/Champaign IndyMedia Center (UC IMC) read like a media activist’s wish list: Start free monthly… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 activism

Features
By Emily Udell
April 22, 2005

Where Are the Women?

What Washington Post editor Zofia Smardz dubbed “Opiniongate” began when columnist and commentator Susan Estrich sent a letter to… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 gender media

Features
By Pat Aufderheide
April 21, 2005

Too Much Media

Our media environment is very noisy, abundant, even polluted. Columbia journalism professor Todd Gitlin calls it “media unlimited.” while… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media television

Features
By David Moberg
April 20, 2005

Union Stations

Add up the audience for all of the progressive independent press: national magazines, local newsweeklies, liberal blogs, Pacifica radio… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 labor media

Features
By Jeff Chester and Gary O. Larson
April 18, 2005

Broadband Internet: Unhappily Ever After?

Few people blink these days when some Chicken Little somewhere announces that the virtual sky is falling. The Internet… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media technology

Features
By Timothy Karr
April 18, 2005

Is Low-Cost Wi-Fi Un-American?

We have Big Media to thank for saving Americans from themselves. Just as the notion of affordable broadband for… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media technology

Views
By David Sirota
April 18, 2005

Fear, Loathing and the GOP

The telltale sign of desperation in politics is when people start making wild threats and accusations. From Joe McCarthy… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 politics

Features
By Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke
April 14, 2005

Making Connections

Why is the news so bad? What can progressives do to fix it?

vol. 29, iss. 12 media

Views
By Susan J. Douglas
April 14, 2005

Fairness Now

As long as we are dreaming of the near impossible—the reinstitution of the concept that the airwaves are a… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media

Features
By Kari Lydersen
April 13, 2005

The Ousting of Obrador

Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, otherwise known as AMLO or “el peje” after a lovable swamp fish,… more

vol. 29, iss. 12

Features
By Digby
April 13, 2005

The Blogosphere: Insiders vs. Outsiders

It shouldn’t have come as too much of a surprise when Time named the right-wing blog PowerLine “Blog of… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media

Features
By Jamison Foser
April 12, 2005

Five Ways to Combat Conservative Media

1. Stop talking about “bias.” Inaccurate, distorted and misleading news reports that further a conservative agenda or undermine progressive… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 media

News
By Kenneth Rapoza
April 11, 2005

IMF on the Ropes in Brazil

Brazil's decision to cut some ties with the Fund is indicative of changing times in Latin America

vol. 29, iss. 12 economy south america

Views
By Salim Muwakkil
April 11, 2005

The GOPs Quest for Color

Insistent complaints from right-wing pundits about the media’s liberal bias have been effective. Now even the most extreme right-wing… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 politics race

Culture
By Slavoj Zizek
April 8, 2005

The Popes Failures

Pope John Paul II’s reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is well known. Immediately after seeing… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 religion

Views
By Brian Cook
April 8, 2005

The Vultures of Life

It’s apparently not enough for George W. Bush to have taken the words “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy,” and perverted… more

vol. 29, iss. 12 administration medical & health

Culture
By Ari Paul
April 7, 2005

Tibetans Face New Uncertainty in Exile

Dharamsala, India—The rain came down harder and those celebrating the final day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, squeezed… more

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