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Ear to the Ground: Hillary Aims for the Global Glass Ceiling

Ear to the Ground: Gay Rights Group Puts Marriage Fight on Hold

Ear to the Ground: World Leaders Condemn Burma Verdict

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Ear to the Ground: Afghan Women Protest Against—and for—‘Rape’ Law

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas on Rights, Miraculous Dishwashers

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

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Ear to the Ground: Rabbis Stirred Holy War, Israeli Soldiers Claim

Ear to the Ground: Death Penalty Keeps U.S. in Bad Company

Reports: Finding Peace in the Culture Wars

Ear to the Ground: Go Ahead and Sue

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Ear to the Ground: Rebutting the False Choice Between Security and Freedom

Reports: The Real Obama

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

Arts and Culture: Brenda Wineapple on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

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Reports: Still Dreaming After All These Years

Ear to the Ground: British Foreign Secretary Criticizes ‘War on Terror’

Ear to the Ground: China Takes the Bronze in GDP

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

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Taking New England by Storm

Reports: Work Hard, but Pray for Luck

Reports: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won’t)

Reports: Warren Is Worth the Headache

A/V Booth: Why Gays Are Upset About the Rev. Rick Warren

Reports: Israel’s ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

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Arts and Culture: Get Milk

Ear to the Ground: California’s High Court to Rule on Marriage Ban

Reports: Knowing When to Walk Away

Ear to the Ground: Connecticut Same-Sex Couples Begin to Wed

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Reports: The New Political Center

Reports: A New Pride in Our Country

Reports: To This Minister, Prop. 8 Is Repugnant

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

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Ear to the Ground: Afghan Court Resentences Activist

Reports: The Idiots Who Rule America

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson’s Friendship With Abolitionist

Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

Reports: A Private Matter—for Everyone

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Accused of Jailing Journalists Without a Just Cause

Reports: Don’t Cage Dissent

Reports: China’s Sins in the Spotlight

Reports: China Lives Up to Low Expectations

Ear to the Ground: Hamdan Sentence Is a Snub to Prosecution

Reports: China’s Quest for Olympic Glory

Ear to the Ground: Palestinian Security Forces Accused of Torture

Ear to the Ground: China Under Fire for Olympic Crackdowns

Reports: Six Little Words

Ear to the Ground: France Rejects Mugabe

Reports: When Common Sense Is Unconstitutional

A/V Booth: Obama and McCain’s FISA Flip-Flop

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on American Eugenics

Reports: Impatient Justice

Reports: One for the Constitution

Ear to the Ground: British PM Wins Anti-Terror Vote

Reports: Unequal Under the Law

Reports: I’ve Had It With Rev. Wright

Reports: Olympic Hide and Seek

Ear to the Ground: Dalai Lama Shows Support for Olympics

Ear to the Ground: Put Up Your Nukes

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Ear to the Ground: Calling All Cubans: Cell Phones, Gays OK!

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Considers Second Amendment

Ear to the Ground: Tibet Official Denies Shootings

Reports: A Cause Bigger Than Any Scandal

Ear to the Ground: Aid Groups Slam Gaza Blockade

Reports: Lessons of Internment

Ear to the Ground: Sentenced to Die Over a Download

Reports: The End of Privacy

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Ear to the Ground: Hoover’s Secret Plan to Jail ‘Dangerous’ Americans

Ear to the Ground: Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim

Reports: Why We Resist

Reports: America’s Gulag Goes Before the Court

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Crackdown Intensifies

Ear to the Ground: Monks Venture Out in Burma

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Ear to the Ground: Bush to Tighten Sanctions on Burma

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Throws Native People a Bone

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Approved in California, Again

Reports: The Year for Women

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Ear to the Ground: Egypt Bans Female Genital Mutilation

Ear to the Ground: Intelligence Chief to Revise Spy Rules

A/V Booth: Maher on Falwell: ‘Death Isn’t Always Sad’

Ear to the Ground: If at First You Don’t Convict, Try, Try Again

Ear to the Ground: New Jersey Considers Mandatory HIV Test

Ear to the Ground: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Secret Execution Chamber

Ear to the Ground: Bush: Hate Crime Bill ‘Unnecessary’

Ear to the Ground: Oregon Will Have Civil Unions

Reports: Supremes Know Best

Ear to the Ground: Mexico City to Decriminalize Abortion

Reports: Life, Death and Politics

Cartoons: Unsafe, Barely Legal and Rare

Reports: Governing the Womb

Ear to the Ground: Dreary Prospects For Iraq’s Women

Reports: Human Rights Watch: Israel Has Committed War Crimes

Ear to the Ground: House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act

Ear to the Ground: Hundreds of Thousands Rally for Immigrant Rights

Ear to the Ground: Did Scalia Prejudge Guantanamo Case?

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Rejects Google’s Stand on Privacy

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