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Revenge of the Bush Department of Justice: Phony Scandal is Legacy of Politicized Hiring
J. Christian Adams' discredited accusations that President Obama's Justice Department engaged in racially charged “corruption” in the New Black Panther Party case are being promoted and defended by a …
Suing, Protesting, and Boycotting Arizona over SB 1070
Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant law, is set to go into effect on July 29. With days left to go, Organizers are in a race against the clock …
Senate Vote Clears Way for Passage of Financial Bill
Washington - The Senate moved a crucial step closer Thursday to passing a historic overhaul of the financial regulatory system, voting 60 to 38 to cut off debate on …
George Lakoff | Conservatism’s Death Gusher
The issue is death - death gushing at 10,000 pounds per square inch from a mile below the sea, tens of thousands of barrels of death a day. Not …
Veteran Care: More Questions Than Solutions
Washington - Two days after regulations went into effect making it easier for veterans to seek treatment for PTSD, members of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs met Wednesday …
How the Sneaky Hands of the Big Banks Are Working Overtime to Rip You Off
After living through the Great Financial Crash of 2008, just about everybody recognizes that megabanks screwed the economy hard and were rewarded with big bailouts, which further screwed over, …
How Prepared Are We for the Next Great Flu Breakout?
This report appears in the Summer 2010 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine. It is the …
The Fox Cycle: From Bogus Right-Wing Attack to Mainstream News
As more and more media outlets follow Fox News' lead in covering the manufactured New Black Panther Party/Department of Justice (DOJ) scandal, Media Matters offers three case studies of …
Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ
Jay Bybee, who as a senior Justice Department lawyer signed two memos in 2002 authorizing CIA interrogators to torture “war on terror” prisoners, told a congressional panel that more …
“We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War:" Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake
Haiti during the World Cup is much like my hometown of New Orleans was during the Superbowl. Don't try to make plans with anyone to do anything during a …