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Journalist Daniel Schorr Dead at 93
Daniel Schorr, a journalist whose fierce independence landed him on President Nixon's enemies list and whose award-winning 62-year career spanned newspapers, radio and television, died Friday. Mr. Schorr, who …
Study: Increases in Infant Mortality and Cancer in Fallujah Greater Than Hiroshima
A new study in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health conducted by British researchers has found a startling increase in the number of infant mortality and …
President Obama Addresses Netroots Nation 2010 With Maddow Comment (Video)
Bogus ‘Obama Mom’ Grants Lure Students
After being laid off from her job as a high school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, Nicole Massey decided to go back to college. For months, she scoured the Web …
Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well
St. Petersburg, Fla. - Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's …
A Prisoner’s Wife
I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, “One day, they'll come for you.” As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms, he'd begun to …
Cluster Bombs and Civilian Lives: Efficient Killing, Profits and Human Rights
Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International. The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and children were killed following …
“Soul of a Citizen”: Village Politics – Rebuilding Engaged Communities
How do we respond to a political landscape where Meg Whitman can spend $80 million on her primary candidacy alone? Or where, aided by the ghastly Citizen's United Supreme …
Best Practices
When I was working as a teacher, I loved the phrase “best practices.” It suggested pooled wisdom, a collective weeding out of the more effective from the less effective, …
For Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone, a Terror Topping
A recent exposĂ© in The Washington Post shows that if you have a security clearance and are comfortable being part of a lucrative “self-licking ice cream cone” - a …