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Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

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Reports: The Two Faces of China

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Ear to the Ground: We Deserve the Truth From Citigroup, Judge Rules

Reports: Obama’s Catholic Friends and Enemies

Ear to the Ground: South African Parliament Passes Bill Restricting Press Freedoms

Reports: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For

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Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Takes Its Time on Health Care

Reports: California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout

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Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

Reports: The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy

Ear to the Ground: Basque Separatists Say Armed Conflict Is Over

A/V Booth: ‘Frontline’ Investigates Obama’s Record Deportations

Reports: Let Them Eat Keller

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Ear to the Ground: Prisons to Provide Treatment for Transgender Inmates

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court to Review Health Care Law

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Ear to the Ground: Saudi Arabia’s Radical King Gives Women the Right to Vote

Reports: ‘Probably’ Isn’t Good Enough

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A/V Booth: Dave Zirin and Mike Farrell on the Death of Troy Davis

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Ear to the Ground: Troy Davis Is Dead

Reports: No End in Sight for a Family’s Agonizing Guessing Game

Ear to the Ground: Poker ‘Ponzi Scheme’ Bagged $440 Million, Says DOJ

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Ear to the Ground: DA Seeks to Drop Charges Against DSK

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Ear to the Ground: Prosecutors Are Expected to Drop Strauss-Kahn Charges

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Reports: The Other Israelis

Ear to the Ground: Irony in Norway

Ear to the Ground: The Difference Between Hacking and Attacking

Ear to the Ground: Free Birth Control Possible With Health Care Overhaul

Reports: America’s Disappeared

Ear to the Ground: Israel Bans the Boycott

Ear to the Ground: The Tyranny of the Compact Fluorescent

Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas

Ear to the Ground: No Public Money for Arizona Candidates

Reports: Obama Is Wrong on War Powers

Reports: This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance

Reports: Rigging the 2012 Election

Ear to the Ground: FBI Makes It Easier to Pry

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Ear to the Ground: Poll: Are You Worried That Facebook Recognizes Your Face?

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

A/V Booth: Why Our Broken System Sends the Wrong People to Prison

Truthdig Podcast: Why Our Broken System Sends the Wrong People to Prison

Ear to the Ground: Hack Us and We’ll Bomb You

Reports: Lance Armstrong Inquisition Is a Waste

Ear to the Ground: Vermont Approves Universal Health Care

Reports: Vermont, the Land of Healthy Firsts

Reports: Turning the Camera on the Police

Reports: Strauss-Kahn Scandal an Embarrassment for France

Reports: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

Reports: But Was It Murder?

Reports: Bin Laden Mission Evokes More Questions Than Answers

Reports: Will the Courts Wreck Health Care?

Reports: Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

Ear to the Ground: U.K. Courts to Journalists: Stow It

Reports: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Ear to the Ground: Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’

Reports: One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York

Reports: Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court: Tinkering With the Machinery of Death

Reports: No Laws, No Secrets: The Anarchist Creed of Julian Assange

Reports: Six Sadistic Proposals From State Government

Reports: Parents Behaving Badly

Reports: Obama’s Audacity Deficit on Guns

Reports: People Power vs. Washington

Reports: The American Inquisition of 2011

Ear to the Ground: Obama Punts on Guantanamo

Reports: The GOP’s Ingenious Madman Strategy

Reports: Lifting the Heavy Thumb

Reports: The FCC, Net Neutrality and the Future Enrons of the Internet

Reports: Yes, America Still Needs Unions

Reports: How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas, You Have the Right to Remain Silent

Reports: The Leadership Vacuum

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Ear to the Ground: Health Care Repeal Shot Down in Senate

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A/V Booth: Rahmbo Has ‘No Doubt’ He Will Prevail

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Condemns Tyranny While Torturing Bradley Manning

Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Banker Fined by Swiss Court

Reports: What It Was Like to Be John F. Kennedy

Reports: Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban

Ear to the Ground: Half of Younger Americans Have Pre-Existing Conditions

Ear to the Ground: Twitter Fights the Man

Reports: How Many Bullets Do You Need?

Reports: A Tale of Two Sheriffs

Ear to the Ground: Illinois Is One Signature Away From Ending the Death Penalty

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Ear to the Ground: How America Exiles Unwanted Teenagers

Reports: The House of Professors

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Ear to the Ground: When Conservatives Celebrate Terrorists

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Truthdig Podcast: Truthdig Radio: Save the Internet, Enlist the Gays, Movies of the Year

Ear to the Ground: O’Donnell Accused of Dipping Into the Campaign Till

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Missing Murder

Ear to the Ground: Senate Lets Sharks Keep Their Fins for Christmas

Reports: Undocumented Students Give Congress an F

Reports: ‘Don’t Ask’: Not Quite Fa La La Just Yet

Reports: Haley Barbour’s Civil Rights Airbrush

Reports: So Far Health Care Rulings Are Disturbingly Predictable

Ear to the Ground: Trendy French Straights Have Co-Opted Civil Unions

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Sues BP, Transocean for Damages ‘Without Limitation’

Reports: Democracy: Made in China

Reports: ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to the Real Thing

Reports: Every Man His Own Historian

Reports: Obama Speaks Ill of His Allies

Ear to the Ground: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Headed for a Vote

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Ear to the Ground: Those Dreadful Geico Commercials Are About to Get Quieter

Reports: The Grinch Who Stole Washington

Reports: WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’

Ear to the Ground: California Snubs Republican Landslide

Reports: While You Were Sleeping, California Made New Election Laws

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Reports: Calling the Bluff on Deficits

Ear to the Ground: New York Doesn’t Heart Body Scanners

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Reports: To Deter Crime, Get Tough on Wall Street

Reports: A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’

Ear to the Ground: Victorious Foe of Government Health Care Demands Government Health Care

Reports: The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum

Reports: Do Only Conservative Victories Count?

Ear to the Ground: No Punishment Over Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes

Reports: A Third Party?

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Reports: Message for the Day After

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Bill Might Make ‘the Pill’ Free

Ear to the Ground: Oklahoma Not OK With Shariah Law

Reports: The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign

Reports: Why Anita Hill’s Testimony Matters

Reports: The Rise of Sewer Money

Reports: Playing the Mommy Card

Ear to the Ground: George Soros Makes the Case for Legal Weed

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Times Condemns Obama Detainee Policy

Reports: The Scandal of 2010

Reports: Beyond Kingmaker: Moqtada al-Sadr and the Future of Iraq

Reports: Bad Guys of the Foreclosure Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Stevens v. Scalia

A/V Booth: Christine O’Donnell’s Staggering Ignorance

Reports: The Thomas Clown Affair

Ear to the Ground: Is Clarence Thomas’ Wife Trying to Pick a Fight With Anita Hill?

Reports: Waiting for Another Watergate

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Brain’s Brain?

Ear to the Ground: Bank of America Ends Foreclosure Ban

Reports: Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses

Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play

Reports: They All Do It

Reports: How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master

Reports: The Shadow Class War of 2010

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