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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.

Blogs

An edgy ad could have broken through right-wing psychological barriers on climate change and alternative energy. Fox turned it down.

May 11, 2010

Checking out our morning collection of media and political highs and lows, from cable news to Web-only. Updates every afternoon.

May 11, 2010

The end of Newsweek would signal an end of an era for reporting--but what about the media left standing? 

May 10, 2010

The Republican National Committee has attacked Elena Kagan for highlighting Thurgood Marshall's celebration of the Constitution as a living document that evolved from accepting slavery to holding genuine promise for all Americans.

May 10, 2010

Andrew Sullivan thinks Elena Kagan should be grilled about her sex life. What a bad idea.

May 10, 2010

Downing Street may be in the news this week for a far different reason--the upheaval following the British election--but five years ago the secret memo with the infamous phrase about intelligence about WMD in Iraq being "fixed" made headlines (but only on progressive blogs).

May 10, 2010

BBC & PRI's "The World" interviews reporter Joshua Kors about the deliberate misdiagnosis of returning veterans. 

May 10, 2010

The Solicitor General is a (very) "safe" pick, but observers raise doubts about whether she is committed to putting the brakes on the imperial presidency.

May 10, 2010

On May 20th Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick will a private fundraiser inside his owners box at Chase Field for SB 1070 supporter State Senator Jonathan Paton. While Kendrick publicly distances himself from the bill, he is using the team's stadium as a fundraising center for politicians who support the immigration law. Until this practice ends, the team should be boycotted.

May 10, 2010

"I hate Blue Monday," Fats Domino sang, but you can welcome in a new week by checking out our morning collection of media and political highs and lows, from cable news to Web-only.   Updates  this afternoon.

May 10, 2010
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