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As the country charts a new course on immigration, New York remains a beacon of hope.

Council members are working on an agenda that includes labor organizing, public transportation and giving legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.

New York’s housing crisis has pushed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers underground.

Stop Family Violence

America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale—at home.

As change nips at the edges of the Bronx, the borough’s iconic auto-glass workers continue their daily street-dance.

A writer navigates the empty streets and boarded-up businesses of his childhood.

A board filled with messages for Audrie Pott

Rehtaeh Parsons, Audrie Pott: these are victims of sexual violence who didn't survive.

Kharey Wise, the oldest of the Central Park Five, is arraigned in court.

A new documentary sheds light on what we haven't learned from the tragic miscarriage of justice.

Studies show that insiders at Google could, if they wanted, covertly alter voter preferences. The very possibility is a threat to democracy.

Blogs

The excitement that accompanies the start of the World Cup shouldn't blind us to the dramatic inequality in the country, and FIFA's heavy hand in the preparations.

June 10, 2010

One can't help thinking that the grande dame of the White House press corps would have gotten less grief if she'd  purposely cheated the financial system and took taxpayer money to recover.

June 8, 2010

Thomas's remarks were offensive, but considering her journalistic moxie and courage over many decades, isn't there room for someone who made a mistake, apologized for it and wants to continue speaking truth to power?

June 7, 2010

A US military intelligence analyst, who claimed to be the source for the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video, has reportedly been arrested. But the biggest story here may be the classified documents and videos yet to come.

June 7, 2010

Everything you need to start your work week, updated all day, today featuring: war in Afghanistan becomes our longest ever, key WikiLeaks source busted, even young people worry about our over-wired brains, South Park and Levon Helm, and much more.

June 7, 2010

Your daily media and politics cheat sheet,  with updates later, today featuring Frank Rich urging Obama to get even (not mad), Helen Thomas in trouble,  latest on oil slick and Gaza,  a new pinup girl for "The Daily Show,"  the Best of Colbert, and much more.

June 6, 2010

Fox News's Free-Market Theory of Journalistic Evidence has it that more viewers makes the channel more correct. Therefore...

June 5, 2010

On Thursday morning I was apoplectic and an umpire was the target of my rage. Yes it was irrational. Yes I probably need to start putting Prozac on my pancakes. But my anger was real.

June 5, 2010

Could it be that what is actually missing from this debate might be even-handed coverage and logic?

June 4, 2010

Your morning "cheat sheet" today featuring oil-slicked birds, Jon Stewart on Glenn Beck on Israel, more campaign nuttiness in S. Carolina, David Mamet's porn,  Olbermann, Buzz Bissinger and others on imperfect game, and much more!  Updates all day!

June 4, 2010
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