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Reports: The Difference Between a Terrorist and Someone Who Flies a Plane Into a Building

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Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Frees Troops to Poke, Tweet and Lip-Sync to Lady Gaga

Reports: Toyota Chief Overshoots Congressional Hearings by 150 Miles

Ear to the Ground: Millennial Edition

Arts and Culture: Chris Hedges on ‘The Death and Life of American Journalism’

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Ear to the Ground: John Yoo Takes Credit for ‘Saving’ Obama Presidency

Reports: Behind the Tea Party Facade, Just Another Bush-League Republican

Ear to the Ground: Something Rotten in Denmark Edition

Reports: U.S. Allies in Europe Begin to Pull Back

Reports: The Elephant at the Health Care Summit

Reports: Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is Real

Reports: Rogues Gone Wild

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Calls Thomas Paine the Glenn Beck of Revolutionary America

Reports: Why the Democrats Are Losing

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Reports: Europe Needs to Believe in Its Own Adequacy

Reports: The End of Obama’s Vision of a Nuke-Free World

A/V Booth: VP Fight: Biden vs. Cheney

Ear to the Ground: Luge Snuff Video: What Were the Networks Thinking?

Reports: Health Care Reform Can’t Wait—Outside Washington

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Reports: America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Google Working on Gmail’s Social Skills

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Reports: ‘iBailout’: Pocket Activism

Truthdig Podcast: ‘iBailout’: Pocket Activism

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A/V Booth: Mel Gibson Is Done With Apologizing, Calls Reporter an A-Hole

Reports: Another Lone Wolf Joins the Pack

Reports: Rotten Minds, Shriveled Hearts and Human Souls

A/V Booth: Limbaugh Says $250,000 Isn’t Wealthy

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Reports: The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News

A/V Booth: Late Night Hosts Gang Up on Leno

Reports: Our Addiction to Disaster Porn

A/V Booth: Teleprompter Malfunction Leaves Obama Speechless

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Reports: Hope in the Deep Freeze

Reports: A Memory of Howard

Reports: Obama’s First State of the Union—Full Remarks

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Reports: A Duped President’s Wasted Foreign Policy Year

Reports: Let the Haitians In

Ear to the Ground: Newsday’s Paid Content Project Hits Major Glitch

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Cartoons: God Is Watching

Reports: Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction

Ear to the Ground: European Human Rights Group, U.S. Media Decry SCOTUS Ruling

Ear to the Ground: Life After Massachusetts Edition

A/V Booth: Conan Burns NBC’s Millions in Revenge

Reports: No Obama Obituaries, Please

A/V Booth: Limbaugh Wonders Why Jews, AKA ‘Money People,’ Aren’t Fed Up With Obama

A/V Booth: Final ‘Lost’ Season Threatens Human Decency

Ear to the Ground: All the News That’s Fit to Charge For

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Lose Ted Kennedy’s Seat

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Reports: Reid’s Motive Does Matter

Reports: From Coup-Lite to Truth-Lite: 10 Ways the U.S. Fought Democracy in Honduras

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Mark Halperin’s Trash Edition

Cartoons: Foxy Lady

A/V Booth: Sarah Palin’s Fox Debut

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Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: End-of-the-Oughts Edition

Reports: Too Much Access to Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston

Arts and Culture: The 20 Best Socially Conscious Movies of the Decade

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Jewish Mother Edition

Reports: Iran, Yemen Posing Challenges to American Intelligence

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Higher-Education Edition (Updated)

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ on the Folksy, Factless News Channels

Reports: One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

Ear to the Ground: We’re Here, We’re Severe, Get Used to It

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Christmas Eve Edition

Ear to the Ground: Sarah Palin Has Her Own Naughty or Nice List

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Blizzard-Free Edition

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A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Talks ‘Truth Problem’ With Leno

Reports: Nader’s Utopia: The World According to Ralph

Digs: When China Rules the World

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Reports: The Democrats’ Bush Nostalgia

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Reports: It’s Not About Tiger Woods, It’s About Us

Ear to the Ground: Frustrated Subscribers Target AT&T

Ear to the Ground: Congress Could Mute Loud Commercials

Reports: Gravel’s Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: All-You-Can-Eat Weekend Wrap-Up

Ear to the Ground: Editor & Publisher No More

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Gay Animals Edition

Reports: Take Me to Your Climate Leader

Reports: ‘The Great Global Security Underwriter’ Will Pay a High Price

Ear to the Ground: Can Gadgets Save the Magazine?

Reports: 21st Century Skills: Education’s New Cliché

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Rainy Day Edition

Ear to the Ground: What Can the FCC Do for You?

Reports: They Don’t Check Facts Like They Used To

Ear to the Ground: Zell Out as Tribune CEO

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Arts and Culture: Comcast to Buy NBC

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Reports: Is It Time for Financial Institutions to Give Back?

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on Books About War

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Reports: Addicted to Nonsense

A/V Booth: What White House? Huckabee Digs Fox News

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Reports: Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

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A/V Booth: Hedges and Friends Debate Illusion, Conservatism and 9/11

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A/V Booth: ‘Modern Combat 3’—We Can Hardly Wait

Cartoons: Dobbs’ Nightmare

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Ear to the Ground: Rupert Murdoch vs. Google (and Reality)

Reports: We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Arts and Culture: Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: Is CNN the Least Trusted Name in News?

Arts and Culture: Disney Offers Refund for Baby Bupkis

Reports: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Truthdig Podcast: Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Cartoons: Balloon Boy

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A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Goes to War

Ear to the Ground: ‘Viva Berlusconi’? Not So Much

Ear to the Ground: How Fox News Rigs Polls

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: Polanski Brings Out the Worst in Hollywood

Reports: Scanning the Horizon of Books and Libraries

Ear to the Ground: And Now, a Word About ‘Czar’ Mythology

Ear to the Ground: 2 Honduran Media Outlets Silenced

Reports: The War on Language

Ear to the Ground: William Safire Dead at 79

Reports: The Truth About Two Racists—Beck and Limbaugh

Reports: Now, Where Was I?

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Arts and Culture: China at Odds With WTO Over Media Import Rules

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Truthdig Podcast: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Ear to the Ground: Is Rep. Joe Wilson Winning?

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Reports: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Distorting the Voice of the People

Arts and Culture: Disney Grabs Marvel: Can Mickey and Wolverine Get Along?

Ear to the Ground: Gideon Levy: Bad Journalism Is a Gift to Occupation

A/V Booth: Ted Kennedy in Pictures

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 3

Ear to the Ground: Israel Furious at Organ Harvesting Accusation

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Ear to the Ground: Murdoch’s Money Misfortune

Arts and Culture: A Bomb in Every Issue

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Reports: The Politics of the Jackboot

Reports: The Equal Rites Awards, 2009

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

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