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Yahoo isn't buying the blogging service for it's profitability. It's buying it for the advertising possibilities.

Welcome home sign for Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight

Whatever their intent, laws equating pregnancy termination with murder are used against pregnant women, not for them.

Chicago teachers

CORE’s victory is a boost to social movement unionism—and a model for other unions around the country.

New Orleans

It’s a starting point: not the tinder or the blaze but a match, a belief in possibility.

An adopted child

I’d like to believe my sons’ best life is in my home, and not with their first families. But Christians committed to justice need to remember we are not entitled to other people’s children.

Myriad genetic testing

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intentioned exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.

Journalist

The future of media must include all of us.

Shujaa Graham

“I killed the thing that almost killed me,” said Kirk Bloodsworth, who faced execution in Maryland, the latest state to outlaw capital punishment.

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An Indiana congressman had a lot to say about how others should have sex, until he got caught having sex with someone other than his wife.

May 22, 2010

The Kentucky crackpot wants less regulation on businesses, but more regulation on women's health.

May 22, 2010

A nun in Phoenix has been ex-communicated after approving a life-saving abortion. What?

May 21, 2010

What you need to know today, featuring in this edition Maddow vs. Rand Paul (Part II), reaction to financial reform bill progress, Tony Soprano vs. Glenn Beck, Bono at the White House, and much more!

May 21, 2010

The Nation's DC Editor Chris Hayes reports on The Rachel Maddow Show that stalling the financial reform legislation has introduced stronger consumer protections.

May 20, 2010

On The Weekly Standard's reassurance of the safety of offshore oil rigs, Alter-Reviews and how to submit mail.

May 20, 2010

 Your morning cheat sheet, today featuring winning Democrats, Dan Rather in "Pornland," Glenn Beck going for the gold, Campbell Brown replaced by Betty White (?), and much more!

 

May 19, 2010

Joe Sestak wins the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and Blanche Lincoln and Bill Halter head to a run-off. It's been a great primary night for the progressive grassroots.

May 18, 2010

Greta Van Susteren says "advocating ethnic solidarity" is wrong.

May 18, 2010

As a historian and activist on the subject of the atomic bombing of Japan, I was relieved to watch the HBO series conclude two days ago with an unusually non-triumphal treatment of the subject. And here's why that still matters.

May 18, 2010
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