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How Did the News Media Cover the Release of Wikileaks Documents on Afghanistan?
Click here to listen to Your Call's Media Roundtable from July 30, 2010.
Student Deported With His Family Inspires DREAM Act Amendment
Saad Nabeel is afraid to leave his apartment. He lives in a small apartment with his parents in Dhaka, Bangladesh. But Nabeel doesn’t know anything about Bangladesh. He doesn’t …
Economists Tell the Masses: “It Could Have Been Worse“
It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the economists out of the country. While the greed of the Wall Street gang provided the …
Google Teams Up With CIA to Fund Monitoring Startup (2)
Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called “Recorded Future” that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order …
Connie Schultz | Give the Kids a Healthy Start
Last year, Congress attempted to strike a blow for America's children by ordering a slew of agencies and departments to recommend standards for food advertising that targets kids.
Google Teams Up With CIA to Fund Monitoring Startup
Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called “Recorded Future” that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in …
Should Uncle Sam Attend For-Profit Schools?
The late-night infomercial time slot is typically reserved for products people later regret buying — ab rollers, Ginsu knife sets, bad classic-rock compilations. Higher education hardly seems to fit.
Controversy Highlights Plight of Black, and White, Farmers
Atlanta, Georgia - The controversial firing of an African-American federal government employee over comments misconstrued to be racist has refocused attention on the plight of black farmers in the …
Oil-Soaked Waste Worries Gulf Coast Landfills’ Neighbors
Mount Vernon, Ala. — At a sprawling landfill some 50 miles from the oil-spotted coastline, trash bags brimming with tar balls, oil-soaked boom, sand, and tangles of sea grass …
Oil-soaked Waste Worries Gulf Coast Landfills’ Neighbors (2)
Mount Vernon, Alaska — At a sprawling landfill some 50 miles from the oil-spotted coastline, trash bags brimming with tar balls, oil-soaked boom, sand, and tangles of sea grass …