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Reports: The Age of Paine

Cartoons: 24-Week News Cycle

Ear to the Ground: Washington Post Makes a Really Bad Decision

Reports: The Battle Over the Burqa

Reports: Designer Vaginas: Is Female Circumcision Coming Out of the Closet?

Reports: Political Foolishness and Teen Pregnancy

Cartoons: Still Selling

Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Reports: Undo the Coup

Ear to the Ground: Obama Overload?

Reports: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

A/V Booth: Brüno Blitzes Conan O’Brien

Reports: Journalism in the Twitter Era

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Arts and Culture: Ed McMahon Was an Everyman Till the End

Reports: America’s History, Now on YouTube

Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: Obama and the Politics of Short Memories

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ Skewers New York Times

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Reports: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Cartoons: Subscription

Arts and Culture: Dobbs Takes a Dive

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: ‘If I Could Get My Hands on Tiller ... ’

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Chinese Media Sour on North Korea

Reports: Health Care Reform’s Pulse Is Fading

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

Reports: Combating Epidemic Ignorance

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Big U.S. Papers Take a Big Hit

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Reports: Stop Thinking About Yesterday’s Health Care Debate

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Pirate Bay Founders Get Jail Time

Reports: Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Cartoons: Running on Fumes

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Reports: Resist or Become Serfs

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Reports: Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Truthdig Podcast: Amy Goodman on ‘Standing Up to the Madness’

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

Reports: Newspapers’ Self-Inflicted Wounds

Arts and Culture: NPR Is Booming

A/V Booth: ‘The American Way of War’ in 2009

Reports: Human Rights Defenders Have It Tough in the Mideast

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Reports: The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Reports: Put Single-Payer on the Table

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Scores a Hit With Talk-Show Diplomacy

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart Is Mad as Hell

Reports: Rushing Toward Irrelevance

Ear to the Ground: Friends In High-Tech Places

A/V Booth: Are Video Games Violent Enough?

Ear to the Ground: Gamer Says Microsoft Banned Her for Being Openly Gay

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Truthdig Podcast: Coping With Corporate Media

Arts and Culture: Hollywood Battles Swedish Pirates

Reports: Addicted to Fake Outrage

Ear to the Ground: PR Worries Stalled Release of Gitmo Inmates

Reports: Where’s the Top Gun?

Ear to the Ground: TV News Makes TV Look Bad

Reports: In Washington, Public Policy and Private Wealth Are Hopelessly Tangled

Ear to the Ground: The Most Trusted Name in News Just Stole Your Computer

Reports: GOP Revs Up the Spin on Stimulus

Reports: Dear Wall Street

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

Reports: Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Arts and Culture: Mark Fischer on Copyright in the Digital Age

A/V Booth: Colbert Turns O’Reilly Against Himself

Reports: Stimulus Brings on a Family Feud

Arts and Culture: Protecting the Homeland From Homeland Security

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Ear to the Ground: Gaza Ad Stirs Controversy Across the Pond

Cartoons: Too Much Information

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Reports: The Gulf Between Hope and Change

Reports: Obama Must Halt America’s Moral Decline

Reports: Who’s in Charge—Obama, the Pentagon or Israel?

Ear to the Ground: Hamas Official Killed, U.N. Compound Hit in Gaza

Reports: A Huge Opportunity for the Mom in Chief

Reports: The Party of No Ideas

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ on Sarah Palin, AKA ‘Blamey Whinehouse’

Cartoons: Last Press Conference

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Cites ‘24’ to Defend Torture

Reports: Why Do They Hate the West So Much, We Will Ask

Arts and Culture: ‘Homeland Security USA’: The Outtakes

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

A/V Booth: Palin Rips Media a New Moosehole

Ear to the Ground: Joe the Plumber to Report on Gaza—Seriously

A/V Booth: Coulter Definitely Not Banned From NBC, Shows Mug to Prove It

Reports: Navel-Gazing in the Grand Old Party

Ear to the Ground: Did NBC Dump Ann Coulter?

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Arts and Culture: Chesa Boudin on Colombia’s Civil War

Ear to the Ground: Back to the Future: U.S. to Arm Afghan Militias

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Times Gets Punk’d

Arts and Culture: SAG Strikes Out

Reports: Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

Reports: What Future for the Ink-Stained Wretch?

Reports: There May Be GOP Gold in the Blago Scandal

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

Reports: We Told You So

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

Reports: Dangerous Bias Against Detroit

Reports: Say Hello to the Thrift Zeitgeist

Arts and Culture: NPR Catches Layoff Fever

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

A/V Booth: Walters Fascinated by Fellow Celebrity Palin

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Bailout Ballpark

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

A/V Booth: Learn How to Take a Softball

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

Reports: Merry Wal-Mart, America: Part II

Reports: Tutu, Obama and the Middle East

A/V Booth: Mark Halperin Labels Election Coverage ‘Disgusting’

Reports: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: Ad-ing It All Up

Ear to the Ground: Joe the Plumber Refuses to Go Away

Reports: Some Blame Must Follow the Financial Collapse

A/V Booth: Palin Talks Africa, ‘Wardrobe-Gate’ in Fox News Interview

Reports: America the Illiterate

A/V Booth: Palin Goes Home

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

A/V Booth: Barney Goes Rogue

Reports: Looking Back and Moving Forward

Ear to the Ground: Palin Fears for (Her) Free Speech

Arts and Culture: Nicholas von Hoffman on Kevin Phillips’ ‘Bad Money’

Reports: Don’t Underestimate Palin

Reports: Hell to Pay

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Stevens’ Corruption Was About the Little Things

Reports: Sarah the Scapegoat

Ear to the Ground: McCain, Palin Fume at Obama’s ‘Pet Newspaper’

Ear to the Ground: An ‘Emergency Effort to Stop Barack Obama’

Reports: ‘H’ Is for Hypocrisy

Reports: Life After November 4th

Ear to the Ground: Study: Media Goes Negative on McCain

Reports: Change Big Donors Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Rep.‘s ‘Anti-American’ Comments Could Cost Her Re-Election

Reports: No Child Left Behind Fails Us All

A/V Booth: Who Needs Robocalls When You Have Robo-Rep. Bachmann?

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

A/V Booth: The HBO Debate

Reports: A Bush-Style Whitewash

Reports: Economy Trumps Race in Ohio

Arts and Culture: CBS Partners With YouTube

Ear to the Ground: In a Previous Life, Palin Loved the Media

Ear to the Ground: Obama Buys His Own TV Special

Cartoons: Kill the Media

Reports: What McCain and Obama Don’t Know

Cartoons: President of NBC

Reports: Weapons of Mass Distraction

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Arts and Culture: Katie Couric Is Ready for Her Close-Up

A/V Booth: Couric Stumps Palin With Question About Reading

Ear to the Ground: CBS Has More Palin Gold in the Vault

Ear to the Ground: Obama Ads Also Aim to Deceive

A/V Booth: Campbell Brown: Free Sarah Palin

A/V Booth: Letterman Catches McCain Two-Timing With Couric

Ear to the Ground: Couric Grills Palin on McCain’s Economic Record

Ear to the Ground: McCain Campaign Guru: N.Y. Times Isn’t ‘a Journalistic Organization’

Ear to the Ground: Waiting for Sarah

Ear to the Ground: Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and ‘Mediocrity’

Reports: The Sexist Two-Step

Reports: Palin Keeps Lying, and Lying, and ...

Reports: Lame You Can Believe In

Reports: A Campaign Without Ideas

Ear to the Ground: ABC Spreads Palin Around

A/V Booth: Inside the Surge

Reports: Sarah Zamboni Clears the Ice

Reports: The Party Police

A/V Booth: Obama on Lipstick and Pigs: ‘Enough!’

Ear to the Ground: McCain Cries Bias, Forgets About Fox

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