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Pacifica Radio is in trouble.

"This trial," said the plaintiff, David Irving, "is not really about what happened in the Holocaust." Opposing counsel agreed: "The essence of the case is Mr.

It is delightfully ironic that a site has been approved for the construction of a monument in Martin Luther King Jr.'s name on the Washington Mall, given that in the last months of his life, King

Despite all the palaver, the denouement came quickly.

The editors of The New York Times Magazine had a good idea recently.

Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.

Scheduled for April 30, the Millennium March on Washington for Equality--the fourth national lesbian and gay rally on the Mall--may sound like your standard, good old-fashioned mass march on Wash

While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.

Can you top this? seems to be the theme of the escalating police scandal in Los Angeles.

That the mainstream media are increasingly conservative and gossip-driven is not exactly news.

Blogs

"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

Enjoy your "daze off" this weekend with the best and worst of politics and the media, from cable news to Web-only, in our daily feature from the new Media Fix blog.  Updates on Sunday.

May 9, 2010

James Leeson recorded the radio broadcast of the grisly execution of Willie McGee, in a case much like "To Kill a Mockingbird."   It inspired a new book and an NPR program aired just last night. 

May 8, 2010

Enjoy your "daze off" with the best and worst of politics and the media, from cable news to Web-only, in our daily feature from the new Media Fix blog.  Updates on Sunday and whenever.

May 8, 2010

Thursday's almost 1,000-point collapse in the Dow may have resulted from a mistake. But the mistake was almost certainly made possible—and dramatically more threatening—by the lax "rules" put in place by George Bush's SEC chair, Christopher Cox. Those rules need to be reformed—fast.

May 8, 2010

The progressive trend towards comprehensive drug law reform continues. 

May 7, 2010

Their own survey found 1 in 3 GOPers still believe Obama was born abroad.  Why does the paper's Behind the Numbers blog bury this—and call it all just a "misunderstanding"? 

May 7, 2010

Start your day with the best and worst of the media, from cable news to Web-only, in our daily feature from the new Media Fix blog.  Updates every afternoon.

May 7, 2010

On Tift Merrit, Paul Thorn and the mail.

May 6, 2010

The Nation's sports correspondent, Dave Zirin, appears on Democracy Now! giving a history lesson of protest and sports and the recent news of "Los Suns" protesting Arizona's anti-immigration law.

May 6, 2010
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