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Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Giving Famous Nudes the Photoshop Treatment

'Freedom Watch' Goes Dark

Sheldon Adelson: An Anti-Semite's Dream

Independent Voters Swing to Obama

Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless
By Chris Hedges

Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

White Nationalists Share Spotlight With GOP at CPAC
By Joe Conason

Will Mortgage Settlement Avoid Repeating Obama’s Foreclosure Failures?
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

Class vs. Race

Obama Brings Chinese VP to the White House

FDA Finds Lead in 400 Lipsticks

Santorum Rising

Independent Voters Swing to Obama

Sheldon Adelson: An Anti-Semite’s Dream

‘Freedom Watch’ Goes Dark

Obama Begs Voters Not to Make His Daughters Switch Schools

Obama: ‘We Can’t Just Cut Our Way Into Growth’

A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Herman Cain Will Not Dance With the Stars

Giving Famous Nudes the Photoshop Treatment

Hollywood Republicans: Rare, but Still There

Whitney Houston and the Politics of Posthumous Pricing

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Anna Badkhen, Contributor

Anna Badkhen writes about people in extremis. She is a journalist and the author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories and Waiting for the Taliban. She has covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Chechnya, and Kashmir, among others. Her wartime journalism won the 2007 Joel R. Seldin Award for reporting on civilians in war zones.