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There is a reason the former Mets skipper hasn't worked a Major League dugout in a decade.

Yes, a small minority of protesters destroyed property, but the vast majority were nonviolent in their general strike against corporate greed. 

The American war and Afghanistan’s civilians.

If the boom years failed to lift poor mothers into the middle class, how are they faring now that the middle class is becoming the new poor?

The national media have invented a drug-related crime wave that officials and local journalists say just isn't happening.

Shortcuts, blindness and downright dishonesty in the rapidly imploding mainstream media.

Rupert Murdoch has not wrecked the Wall Street Journal, as many had predicted. But a key question remains: is the new regime committed to unbiased reporting, or will it politicize the news?

It's unclear how Congress and the White House will proceed on the question of bringing Bush administration officials to justice. But the momentum is building.

We get it. He's pragmatic. But what does that mean--politically and philosophically?

The national news narrative from Denver is completely nuts: consider the unsourced myth of the Clinton-Obama feud.