Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 22, 2013
Is the desire to enter the U.S. television news market corrupting Al-Jazeera English's journalistic integrity? The network's silent retraction from its website of a controversial article criticizing Israel suggests it is, Glenn Greenwald writes at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
By Peter Dreier, TruthoutFeb 29, 2012
C. Wright Mills, the radical Columbia University sociologist who died 50 years ago at age 45, warned that America was becoming a nation of "cheerful robots," corrupted by an economic elite and heading toward a third world war. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 22, 2011
Sociologist Todd Gitlin, former president of Students for a Democratic Society and a Columbia University professor, compares OWS to other American uprisings, discusses the media's early coverage of the protests and considers the fate of the movement's signature leaderless form. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 3, 2011
Pakistani lawyer and human rights champion Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who has aided the U.S. government in legal counterterrorism efforts, was banned from traveling to the States to speak at Columbia Law School after suing the CIA about drone strikes that have killed civilians in his country. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 30, 2010
How's this for a mental image? In an effort to make our synapses sexier to the general public, one enterprising neuroscience aficionado and Ph.D.-to-be cooked up a book of pretty pictures of the human brain as rendered from past to present. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 14, 2009
It's hard to say what made Columbia University professor David Buckner pass out during Monday's episode of "Glenn Beck," but perhaps standing so close to the Fox Newser and being obliged to describe a complex economic scenario with the aid of a cheesy graphic entitled "Path to Destruction" had something to do with Buckner's sudden need to take a break from full consciousness. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 11, 2007
An aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is attempting to work some spin-control magic on what was probably (and unintentionally, according to the aide) Ahmadinejad's biggest headline-grabber from his speech at Columbia University: his assertion that, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 24, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad was branded a "madman" on the front page of the New York Daily News on Monday, the day he was set to speak at Columbia University amid widespread protests and not so subtle references to Adolf Hitler, whom Columbia's Public Affairs Acting Dean John Coatsworth said would also have been allowed to speak on campus, at least in his pre-Holocaust era. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 18, 2006
Two Gulf Coast newspapers took home the big award for their hurricane reportage; Risen and Lichtblau of the N.Y. Times won for their stories on Bush's eavesdropping; and Dana Priest of the Washington Post earned a Pulitzer for reporting on secret CIA prisons. Full list of winners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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