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The Olbermann Era
A quick confession that might not sit well with many Truthout readers: I was, on a personal level, quite ambivalent about the loss of Keith Olbermann's show, “Countdown,” when …
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David C. Berliner | Soft-Core Porn and the Crisis of School Leadership
I must state at the start of this essay that I am no prude, no Victorian. In fact I am generally quite tolerant of contemporary mores in the area …
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Ukraine’s Assault on a Free Press
In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi — known for its independent investigative style — is under …
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Progressive Girl’s Voices at Sundance: My Love for Tiffany Shlain and Her Film “Connected“
Yesterday was the first day at Sundance film festival for us young journalists, and we already had our first interview. Last afternoon we spoke with the lovely Tiffany Shlain, …
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Because It’s Time to End the Afghanistan War… (Video)
With a war in its 10th year, it's time to end it. With violence in Afghanistan still worsening a year after the military push into Marjah—the start of what …
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News in Brief: Rahm Emanuel Thrown Off Ballot in Appellate Court Decision, and More
Rahm Emanuel Thrown Off Ballot in Appellate Court Decision
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Turbulence Ahead
Another year of malaise along the Atlantic. By the numbers, the great recession's long gone. The World Bank forecasts that developing countries — chugging along at an average growth …
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Washington State Joins Movement for Public Banking
Bills were introduced on January 18, in both the House and Senate of the Washington State Legislature, that add Washington to the growing number of states now actively moving …
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America’s Culture of Cruelty
Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.
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At “Summit for the People,” Call for Action on Citizens United
According to Annabel Park, founder of the Coffee Party USA, the influence of corporations on elections is “a cancer in our political system.” Speaking by phone, she elaborates on …