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By Ellen Goodman — Whether they’re donning a slutty Halloween costume or a full-body Islamic veil, many modern women believe they are making their own choices of self-representation—but they’re actually caught in a cultural vise.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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The president’s attempt to whitewash “stay the course” from the nation’s collective memory is emblematic of the bankruptcy of his administration’s policy on Iraq.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Even judged against his own gutter-level standards, Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Michael J. Fox set a new low.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — “Kenny Boy” Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small-time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.
Posted on Oct 24, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer does a career-spanning interview with the “blue-collar liberal” who helped rule California politics as both a congressman and leader of the state legislature over the last 30 years.
Posted on Oct 24, 2006
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Bush is going to spend the next few weeks boasting about his success with the economy—i.e. transferring massive amounts of wealth from the poor and middle class to America’s super-rich.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — The nearly forgotten hero staged a legal battle against Major League Baseball that paved the way for free agency, huge salaries and players’ ability to veto trades.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
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By Gbemisola Olujobi — As more women show up in Africa’s corrupt corridors of power, the beleaguered continent may end up benefiting from their particular brand of tough love.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
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By Chris Hedges — The former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times and author of the bestseller “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” takes a hard look at the political capital of suffering.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
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Truthdig salutes Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N.‘s nuclear agency, who warned the world that up to 30 more countries could soon possess the technology necessary to produce nuclear weapons.
Posted on Oct 20, 2006
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By Kevin Tillman — Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat (left, above) was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin has written a powerful, must-read document.
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
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AP / Mohamed Al-Sehety
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By Chris Hedges — The former New York Times Middle East bureau chief spends 10 days living with a lower-middle-class Egyptian family to expose the side of Egypt off-limits to most tourists—one made desperate by poverty and kept fearful by the omnipresent threat of state security officials.
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — The equation between “values voters” and conservative evangelical Christians has become so automatic that no one even noticed that the Values Voters Summit was held on Rosh Hashanah, a high holy day on the Jewish calendar.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — A new biography makes you long for an act of conscience that is so out of style it seems quaint: the principled resignation.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006
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By Joe Conason — Rep. Curt Weldon is emblematic of the cancer eating away at Washington.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006
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Benghazi: Dissecting Congressional Follies, Media Coverage and ‘Cover-Up’ Charges
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