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By Christopher de Bellaigue
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Tom Brokaw
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the real percentage of Americans who receive financial help from the federal government and the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren gets nasty.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including one state increasing access to birth control, Rick Perry’s poor debate performances explained and a funny “Saturday Night Live” parody of undecided voters.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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The former Federal Election Commission chairman sits down with the “Moyers & Company” host to discuss the November ballot, the need to reform the campaign finance system and his well-known appearances on “The Colbert Report.”
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why women in New Mexico may soon have to prove they were “forcibly raped” to get welfare and one of Jon Stewart’s most epic takedowns of Fox News.
Posted on Sep 20, 2012
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Sandra Fluke has become a favorite target of conservative commentators such as Bill O’Reilly. But on Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” the Fox News host’s blistering criticism of the feminist activist was tempered by a champion of Fluke’s: Jon Stewart.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a rape remark from the wife of Todd Akin and Christine O’Donnell mulls another run for public office.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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AP/John Minchillo
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By Chris Hedges — In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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AP/John Raoux
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By Scott Tucker — Democratic and Republican politicians keep each other in business.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Apparently being smart and having conservative values do not go hand in hand. At least, that’s what former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said during a weekend speech at the Values Voter Summit in which he also criticized the media and libertarians.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Sep 15, 2012
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Sep 14, 2012
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Students all over America are defaulting on their student loans, especially those who attended private, profit-making institutions; Democrats’ chants about Osama bin Laden’s death take us back to George W. Bush’s boasts about Saddam Hussein; meanwhile, new scientific studies prove organic produce contains fewer pesticides and bacteria. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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AP/David Goldman
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By Bill Boyarsky — Talking to volunteers, I saw the immensity of Obama’s task, especially as the Romney-Ryan campaign and the Republican super PACs overwhelm the voters with misleading ads.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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Jon Stewart is having difficulty telling the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions apart, thanks to some party role reversals this year.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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Jon Stewart and company missed an eventful week during their recent hiatus, but they’re back just in time for the Republican National Convention. And also to talk about the most important issues of the campaign: Todd Akin and vaginas.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By Ellen Goodman — So, dear friends, we gather again to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage. We honor our foremothers in our special way by handing out the Equal Rites Awards for those who have done the most to slow down progress.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons/Scrumshus
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Andrea Seabrook left NPR this summer to start her own venture, DecodeDC, and she’s letting fly about what it’s like to “collude” with politicians as a daily news reporter.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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By Marissa Roth
“One Person Crying: Women and War,” is a 28-year, global photo essay that addresses the immediate and lingering effects of war on women.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Aug 18, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how Paul Ryan’s budget hurts the poor and Geraldo Rivera’s latest controversy.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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By Bill Boyarsky — Contrary to Democrats’ hopes, Mitt Romney’s choice of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan for his running mate might not be such good news for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Joseph Wilbanks
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By William Pfaff — Foreign affairs will be the most important issue of all to address as the United States staggers forward into the void, yet the matter will seldom appear in what’s left of the presidential campaign.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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Financial Times Photos (Grace Villamil) (CC BY 2.0)
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Reporters Yasha Levine and Mark Ames have created a new website devoted to profiling people who “abuse media ethics” to shill for corporate interests. Truthdig linked to the duo’s takedown of Malcolm Gladwell a few weeks ago. Now, they’ve set their sights on Adam Davidson, host of the NPR show “Planet Money” and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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Truthdig / Zuade Kaufman
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In this essay, first published in 2008, the iconic author objected to Newsweek’s obituary of his onetime rival, William F. Buckley, a “knightly man” who stood up to “bullies” like Gore Vidal ... by verbally gay-bashing him on national television.
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
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Zuade Kaufman / Truthdig
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Gore Vidal reads an essay first published in 2007, in which the author and iconoclast suggested that perhaps there was a more sinister explanation for President Bush’s fiascoes than mere incompetence: He was out to destroy the American empire.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The emerging truth about the man who will soon accept the Republican presidential nomination is that—like Sarah Palin—his handlers cannot trust him to cope with unscripted questions.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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By William Pfaff — My unexaggerated but depressed opinion of the outcome is the one that current electoral voting polls suggest: a stalemate, much like the one the nation now suffers.
Posted on Aug 2, 2012
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Photo by Les Chatfield (CC-BY)
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Soliciting a modern day slave to write about modern day slaves? Great concept for an improv comedy sketch. Although it might seem sad, and funny, it’s exactly what an advertiser on a media job board has done.
Posted on Aug 1, 2012
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By Stephan Salisbury, Tom Dispatch —
We all know about Aurora. We know a lot less about Anaheim and the killing of Manuel Angel Diaz, shot in the back and in the head by that city’s police just a few short hours after the awful Aurora murders.
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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By Bill Boyarsky — Ignored by the presidential campaigns, poverty is hitting 1960s levels, and spreading to once-prosperous areas unequipped or unwilling to serve poor residents.
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Talk about power: The gun lobby barely had to say a word before the media sent advocates of saner gun regulation shuffling off in defeat.
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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Ash Violette (CC-BY)
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British authorities have decided to try eight people in the case of gutter journalism gone terribly wrong (or wrong-er). They include the woman who ran Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire in the U.K. and Andy Coulson, who was editor of News of the World from 2003 until 2007 and then Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications director until 2011.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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Tao Ruspoli
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By Robert Scheer — He could be infuriating in his lust for truth and social justice, but no serious student of our time can deny Alexander Cockburn’s importance as one of the most principled and insightful political journalists of the past half-century.
Posted on Jul 21, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — William James Raspberry, who died Tuesday at 76, was in the first wave of an invasion of outsiders—minorities and women—who transformed American journalism.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — William Raspberry was a provocateur who was so gentle and gentlemanly that you didn’t always grasp how much he was shaking up the conventional conversation until you actually thought about what he had just said.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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AP/Mary Altaffer
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By Bill Boyarsky — There is a great hunger for trivial news and reporters have agreed to censor themselves in order to feed it.
Posted on Jul 17, 2012
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White House/Chuck Kennedy
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The New York Times reports that it is now commonplace for everyone from campaign advisers to the Treasury Department to edit and approve quotes before journalists allow themselves to print them. Keith Olbermann calls it “appalling,” and that’s being nice.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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It’s the kind of mashup only the crazy Internet boomers of the ’90s could cook up: Why don’t Microsoft—or MSN rather—and NBC get married? Now that Keith Olbermann is off to college, the romance just isn’t there anymore.
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital controversy and Maine’s governor making another Nazi comparison.
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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Is the United States on a course toward crony capitalism? Italian-American economist Luigi Zingales and NPR examine similarities between the politics and economics of Italy under Silvio Berlusconi and of the U.S.
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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AP/Jae C. Hong
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By Bill Boyarsky — The effort to reduce unemployment is a grueling plant-by-plant, job-by-job process conducted by those seeking work, business people and local officials operating far from the media spotlight and simplistic rhetoric of the political campaign.
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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Photo by Andreas Eldh (CC-BY)
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The cute little communicator that helped topple Hosni Mubarak is reportedly so focused on advertising dollars that it plans to impose severe restrictions on third-party partners. Essentially, Twitter wants to have more control over users so it can have more control over how they see ads.
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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Many East Germans are choosing credit cards with an image of a Karl Marx bust staring at the MasterCard logo; Urban Outfitters, owned by a right-wing conservative, is selling Mitt Romney merchandise to irony-thirsty hipsters; meanwhile, the political pressure Latinos placed on Obama is finally paying off. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 27, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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