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Lock Up Washington

Rise Up or Die

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

Does Anything Change in Los Angeles With Election of New Mayor?
By Bill Boyarsky

The Path of Hubris and War
By William Pfaff

Glaciers Are Melting Slowly but Surely
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023
By Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch

Hell on Earth for Greeks

Apple Bullies the U.S. Government for Lower Taxes

Anthony Weiner Announces NYC Mayoral Bid (Video)

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

Watch: Sen. Warren Grills Jack Lew on Too Big to Fail Banks

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons

By Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark
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The Fat Line Between Free Speech and Defamation

By Stuart Whatley —

When criticized, many followers of one faith or another mistakenly perceive a personal attack, and tend to elevate the sacredness of their own individual beliefs at the expense of universal free expression, thus sullying the discourse before it can even begin.

Posted on Mar 5, 2010 READ MORE | 86 COMMENTS

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China’s Anti-Porn Crusade

A highly publicized campaign against Internet pornography swept China in 2009, with 5,394 people arrested and 4,186 criminal investigations conducted against the circulation of “smutty and lewd pictures”—a fourfold increase in smut cases compared with 2008.