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Lock Up Washington

Rise Up or Die

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023

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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023
By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch

Lock Up Washington
By Richard Reeves

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Anthony Weiner Announces NYC Mayoral Bid (Video)

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

GOP Senator’s Hypocrisy on Tornado Aid, Jon Stewart Hates Washington, and More

Our God of Imagination

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time

After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent

By Walter Laqueur

Tag: Frack

Yashna M (CC BY 2.0)

Vermont became the first state to ban the controversial gas-drilling technique that pumps huge volumes of toxic fluid deep into the ground and that has been shown to contaminate drinking water supplies.

Posted on May 18, 2012 READ MORE | 2 COMMENTS

M.V. Jantzen (CC-BY)

Fracking and the Government: 1969-Present

The U.S. government and energy companies have been fiddling with ways to get at gas trapped inside rock underground for decades. Now, using highly pressurized toxic liquid to extract the petro-bubbly is becoming standard practice, even as evidence mounts that it poisons drinking water. ProPublica charts government and industry’s decades-long regulatory dance.