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Why Toyota Is Settling Its Sudden-Acceleration Cases
The Department of Justice has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota, ending a criminal investigation. But the mainstream media has not reported the evidence now available showing that …
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The Thin Veil of Rationality
We try to present a facade of rationality to the world...
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The Desperation of the Vanishing Middle Class
The underlying problem with financial advice is that, even in the best case, it rarely works.
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FCC Votes To Curb Media Consolidation in Local TV Markets
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Monday to make changes to its broadcast ownership attribution rules that advocates say will help curb a wave of corporate media consolidation in …
Pundits Never Have To Say They’re Sorry – but They Can Demand Others Apologize for Being Right
Being wrong doesn't seem to affect certain pundits' ability to gobble up airtime.
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Chris Hedges | Fighting the Militarized State
The obliteration of the right to due process and a fair hearing in a court of law, along with the mass surveillance that has abolished our right to privacy, …
Will the Press Let Chris Christie Clear Himself?
We'll soon see if the press uses the new, one-sided report to return to its days of glowing Christie coverage.
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Racializing Lung Function
Lundy Braun's “Breathing Race into the Machine” traces the peculiar history of how 19th century research on lung capacity laid the foundation for a “scientific” framing of racial difference …
Egypt’s Courts Further Repression With Journalists on Trial and Mass Death Sentence for Morsi Supporters
Egypt is facing international criticism after the largest mass sentencing in its modern history.
Racism and Dishonesty in “Post-Racial” America: An Interview With Kiese Laymon
Novelist Kiese Laymon is brutally honest about his experiences growing up black in the South.