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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

The Terror Con

Greenland's Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It's on Again

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Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
By Marjorie Cohn

Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

Ear to the ground

What Snowden Told Us This Week

Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

U.S. and Taliban Announce Direct Negotiations

Reporter Who Brought Down the ‘Runaway General’ Dead at 33

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It’s on Again

IRS Conspiracy Theory Debunked, Rand Paul Answers Cheney Criticism, and More

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GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Did Progress Leave Christians Behind?

Watch: Rick Perry Blunders Jab at Obama’s Benghazi Reaction

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Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

Digs

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

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Tag: Campaign Ads

Campaign Drones

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —

Posted on Oct 8, 2012 READ MORE

Dark Money Group Told IRS It Wouldn’t Be Political—Then Spent $1 Million on Campaign Ads

By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —

The Government Integrity Fund, which has spent money on ads attacking Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), told the IRS last year it did not plan to spend any money to influence elections when it applied for recognition of its tax-exempt status.

Posted on Oct 5, 2012 READ MORE

Obama Highlights Romney’s Failure to Repudiate Trump

President Obama’s campaign is taking advantage of the fact that Mitt Romney seems unwilling to condemn Donald Trump for his take on the controversial birther conspiracy, releasing a new video highlighting the differences between how Romney and 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain handled personal attacks against Obama.

Posted on May 29, 2012 READ MORE

GOP Insiders Slam McCain Ad Attacking Obama’s Celebrity

Several leading Republican strategists, both named and anonymous, were quoted Wednesday as slamming the latest in a string of bold attack ads on Barack Obama, this one overlaying images of the young senator with troubled trollops Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. “McCain ads are just catch as catch can, one wild swing at Obama after another,” one strategist told the Washington Post.