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By Shalom Auslander
By Robert Richie and Steven Hill
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Immigrants, gays and women who choose abortion are our relatives. They are in our families. We love them—even Republican senators with gay children love them—and we don’t like seeing them pushed around by our government.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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A chemist tried to swap orange juice bottles with containers filled with rubbing alcohol at a coffee shop in San Jose, Calif.; Republicans’ insistence on hampering immigration reform thanks to a provision concerning gay immigrants is utter stupidity; meanwhile, people with health insurance are going bankrupt thanks to medical costs, but Obamacare isn’t the answer. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The first male athlete in one of the big American sports to come out of the closet won’t be the last. Also: race and terrorism, and the companies that do (and don’t) protect your privacy from the government.
Posted on May 3, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The first male athlete in one of the big American sports to come out of the closet won’t be the last. Also: race and terrorism, and the companies that do (and don’t) protect your privacy from the government.
Posted on May 3, 2013
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When female writers disappeared from the Wikipedia heading “American novelists,” more than a few eyebrows were raised; Pvt. Bradley Manning being revoked as grand marshal of the San Francisco Gay Pride parade proves that the military-industrial complex rules all; meanwhile, another price-fixing scandal reminiscent of Libor is about to explode. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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The National Hockey League and its players union have announced a partnership with the You Can Play Project, because, in the words of Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players’ Assn., “it’s the right thing to do.”
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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By Bill Boyarsky — Gutless action has no place in the high court’s deliberations on marriage.
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
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Daniel McGowan, an Earth Liberation Front activist, was imprisoned last week for writing a HuffPo post; Fox News claims that Rutgers University firing its abusive basketball coach is evidence of cultural decline; and no, Bitcoin is apparently not the future of currency. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
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“Illegal” describes an action, not a person, says The Associated Press; Vice President Joe Biden claims television shows like “Will & Grace” helped change the American public’s attitude toward gay marriage; meanwhile, Kansas legislators are close to passing a law that would quarantine people with HIV. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 30, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A deeper look at the Supreme Court’s historic week, the Obama administration harasses whistle-blowers, and “Duck Dynasty” in revolt.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A deeper look at the Supreme Court’s historic week, the Obama administration harasses whistle-blowers, and “Duck Dynasty” in revolt.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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By David Sirota — Out of all the newsworthy comments during this week’s Supreme Court debate over the legality of same-sex marriage bans, none was more revealing—or troubling—than that which came from Justice Sonya Sotomayor.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Edie and Thea met in the early 1960s, in New York’s Greenwich Village. They hit it off.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Don’t take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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A military action that was sold to Americans as short and inexpensive may come to cost us $3.7 trillion; Sen. Rob Portman has come out in support of same-sex marriage thanks to his gay son, but doesn’t seem interested in women’s rights despite having a daughter; meanwhile, the hacker who brought you the Bush family’s emails has exposed communications between a White House adviser and the Clintons. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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The Internet giant is seeking to replace your memorized passwords with jewelry; the tobacco and soda industries share more in common than you think; and is there such a thing as an ethical smartphone? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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By Bill Blum — There is good reason to be optimistic that the Roberts court will bow to the growing public acceptance of same-sex marriage.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Most Wikipedia contributors are men, but that doesn’t justify the fact that females are so poorly represented on the site; much to many priests’ chagrin, the Roman Catholic Church unwittingly bought part of a building that houses Europe’s largest gay sauna; meanwhile, ZIP codes serve as more than just locating devices as they have come to define identities and divide communities. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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"American Gothic" by Grant Wood.
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By Bill Boyarsky — The opponents of same-sex marriage are certainly an unromantic bunch. That grim vision hit me as I read the arguments submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court for and against Proposition 8.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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By Mark O'Connell — The “It Gets Better” project is a grand achievement, and the abundant and various non-famous voices on the website offer much needed empathy and recognition. But we might consider how unhelpfully easy the lucky, privileged, “normal” few can make hope sound.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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According to Rush Limbaugh, since the left has normalized gay marriage, now it will do the same with pedophilia; the U.K. government has found a way to take British citizenship away from certain people who were then mysteriously killed by drones; meanwhile, a computer programmer in India may make teachers redundant as he shows how children can and should teach themselves. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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Medical costs are at an all time high and Obamacare barely touches on the tip of the iceberg that is the U.S. health care problem; a mural by the infamous graffiti artist Banksy that had disappeared from a London shop under mysterious circumstances gets dramatically pulled from auction; meanwhile, an award-winning photograph by Paolo Pellegrin misrepresents its subject and setting, and plagiarizes its caption. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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Best-selling children’s book writer Terry Deary claims the concept of providing the “impoverished access to books” is outdated and irrelevant; despite hopes that the next pope will be less homophobic than the last, the likely candidate supports “Kill the Gays” laws; meanwhile, PayPal and Lenovo aim to finish off passwords in order to move on to more secure measures. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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Some students, parents and a special education teacher met over the weekend at Sullivan First Christian Church to figure out how they can hold a “traditional prom.” The goal, they say, is to get the high school in Sullivan, Ind., to hold one that is “separate but equal.”
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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