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Vladimir Putin

The Weekly Standard's assault on my article is a quintessential example of cold-war thinking and debased discourse.

Saul Landau

For half a century, the Institute for Policy Studies has been an invaluable font of progressive ideas and action. We look forward to the next half-century.

Frank Bruni, the Plutocrat's Pundit

All too often, the most prestigious perch in journalism—the New York Times op-ed page—is given to those who flatter the powerful.

iTunes U

Are MOOCs—massive open online courses—the utopia of affordable higher education, or just the latest fad?

Coursera

The company has attracted tens of millions in venture capital—but if you're looking for the Amazon of online higher ed, try iTunes U.

AT&T

Public interest organizations say deregulating phone service providers will hurt communities of color, but major civil rights groups are still in favor.

Reza Aslan

Yes, the author was attacked on Fox News for daring to be a Muslim writing about Jesus. But does his book actually meet the historical standards he claims?

What a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens.

Blogs

MSNBC's Chris Hayes takes Jeantel's haters to task for their "willful" misunderstanding of a young, black woman's vernacular. 

June 28, 2013

This week: Obama outlines an aggressive plan to address climate change, Egyptians brace for a second revolution and the Supreme Court erodes workers’ rights. 

June 28, 2013

Time for some fun, before more hard work begins.

June 28, 2013

An arrest in Minnesota, a police tasering in New Hampshire, a July 4 march on Washington—and the angry-white-man efflorescence the media should be tracking.

June 27, 2013

Writer who has covered Bradley Manning hearings for months earns proper ID.

June 25, 2013

On Meet the Press, ‘Republican strategist’ Mike Murphy attacked Edward Snowden’s decision to seek aslyum, yet failed to disclose his own financial ties to the surveillance industry. 

June 24, 2013

The same day that Edward Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow and beyond, McClatchey reveals that the NSA leaks are part of a much larger problem.  

June 24, 2013

Historical (and contemporary) context went missing on Meet the Press.

June 24, 2013

Eric on two recent deaths and Reed on the fallacy of balance in the same-sex marriage debate.

June 21, 2013

This week: Turkey’s citizens are uniting against an authoritarian state, the families of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers are waiting for action and universities are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from corporations. On the bright side, Facebook has finally admitted that censoring pictures of breast-feeding women but allowing ones depicting violence against women is wrong.

June 21, 2013
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