Abstract

In Fact..

This section presents two news briefs. A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, an independent think tank that studies information issues in business and government, asked more than 6,300 adults which of a long list of government agencies they trust to safeguard personal information collected about them and which they do not. The most trusted: US Postal Service, Veterans Affairs, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration and Federal Trade Commission, in that order. And those the fewest citizens trust? The Office of the Attorney General and the Justice Department. This week on the Web: John Nichols reports on the latest political news, from Barack Obama's win in the Illinois US Senate Democratic primary to Al Sharpton's endorsement of John Kerry. Anya Kamenetz looks at what's happened to Generation Dean, Pnina Failer is interviewed on her decades as an Israeli nurse and peace activist, Marc Cooper remembers the great social-justice journalist Marshall Frady and Katrina vanden Heuvel asks why liberals are so afraid to take their own side in a fight.