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Jerry Brown: California's Mystery Man

The History That Birthed the Tsarnaev Boys

Arctic Tundra ‘Will Turn to Forest’

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How the IRS' Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Arctic Tundra ‘Will Turn to Forest’
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How the IRS’ Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica

Recurring Nightmares? Wake Up and Take Action
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

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Super PAC Suggests Rand Paul Is Running for President in 2016

The History That Birthed the Tsarnaev Boys

Factory Collapse Kills Two Workers in Cambodia

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Googleland: Coming Soon to a Country Near You

‘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

Video Allegedly Shows Police Beating David Silva to Death

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

What Fate Awaits Orwell’s Birthplace?

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shlomo Sand
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

For seven agonizing minutes, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had no idea if the $420 million and countless hours invested in the Phoenix Mars Lander would amount to more than a black spot on the Red Planet. Ultimately the mobile laboratory was able to dodge the 50 percent failure rate for Mars landings and beam back a few snapshots to prove it arrived safely in the northern polar region.