» Editor's Cut
New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion
When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
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» The Dreyfuss Report
The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» The Beat
John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
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» Act Now!
Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
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» And Another Thing
How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
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» Altercation
Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman
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The Palestine Center invites you to a briefing, "Gaza One Year Later: Picking up the Pieces," with Mr. Bill Corcoran, president of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and former vice president of the Christian Children's Fund, a $300 million nonprofit serving children and their families in thirty-two countries. During the 1990s, Mr. Corcoran directed the Pontifical Mission for Palestine based in Jordan with projects there and in Iraq. He also supervised various projects in Lebanon and Syria. This briefing is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served to registered guests at 12:30pm. The briefing and question/answer period will be from 1-2pm. Registration is required. Unregistered guests will not be admitted. Register online or call 202-338-1958 ext.11 by noon Monday, February 8.
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The economics of media have been turned upside down in recent years, and many organizations are still struggling to make sense of the new landscape. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion about journalism's evolution, presented by New America's Media Policy Initiative. Featured speakers are Tracy Van Slyke, project director at The Media Consortium and co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber; Jessica Clark, research director at the Center for Social Media, American University, and co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber; and Terrence Samuel, communications director of Green for All. Moderated by Tom Glaisyer, New America Foundation. 1899 L Street NW Suite 400. More infoonline.
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Through a selection of work spanning over the past five decades, Tony Candido, painter/architect and Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture professor, presents his visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what the future of architecture could be, in the exhibition "The Great White Whale Is Black," featuring his calligraphic brush and ink paintings and drawings. Free admission. The Cooper Union, The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, 7 E. 7th St. (b/w Third and Fourth Aves.), 2nd floor. Information: 212-353-4220, architecture@cooper.edu
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