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Report: Media Favored Horserace Over Issues in Presidential Primary Report: Media Favored Horserace Over Issues in Presidential Primary

How did the media cover the 2012 primary campaign?

Apr 23, 2012 / Ari Melber

Machine-Made News Machine-Made News

The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

Apr 23, 2012 / Lewis Lapham

Occupy Joins Forces With Direct Action Badasses, ACT UP Occupy Joins Forces With Direct Action Badasses, ACT UP

Like OWS, ACT UP used direct action against government agencies and corporations—and were vilified in the press for it.

Apr 23, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny

This Week: BP’s Toxic Legacy. PLUS: Save Earth Day!  This Week: BP’s Toxic Legacy. PLUS: Save Earth Day! 

 This week, a special investigation into BP's toxic legacy. Plus, I'm at the first ever New York City Green Festival, followed by the LA Times Book Festival. And, environmenta...

Apr 21, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Sunday Talk Shows Still Skew Right and White, but There’s Light at the End of the Week

Sunday Talk Shows Still Skew Right and White, but There’s Light at the End of the Week Sunday Talk Shows Still Skew Right and White, but There’s Light at the End of the Week

Up with Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris-Perry are diverse in terms of gender, race and parts of the brain utilized.

Apr 20, 2012 / Leslie Savan

Dogwhistling From the Romney Campaign? Dogwhistling From the Romney Campaign?

Honestly, it was only a matter of time. 

Apr 20, 2012 / Jamelle Bouie

How Mississippi’s Black/Brown Strategy Beat the South’s Anti-Immigrant Wave How Mississippi’s Black/Brown Strategy Beat the South’s Anti-Immigrant Wave

A campaign that brought together African-Americans and undocumented workers stopped an anti-immigrant bill in its tracks.

Apr 20, 2012 / David Bacon

Independent and Principled? Behind the Cato Myth Independent and Principled? Behind the Cato Myth

The battle between the Cato Institute and the Koch brothers for control over the conservative think tank has further entrenched the risible notion that the group regularly defies t...

Apr 20, 2012 / Mark Ames

Comments of the Week: Hillary Clinton, ALEC and ‘Caring Across Generations’

Comments of the Week: Hillary Clinton, ALEC and ‘Caring Across Generations’ Comments of the Week: Hillary Clinton, ALEC and ‘Caring Across Generations’

Each week we post a run-down of the best of our reader comments with the hopes of highlighting some of your most valuable insights and encouraging more people to join the fray. Let...

Apr 20, 2012 / Sarah Arnold

Not Just Labor Rights; Scott Walker Is Also Dismantling Women’s Rights Not Just Labor Rights; Scott Walker Is Also Dismantling Women’s Rights

Wisconsin's governor is not just attacking labor rights, and voting rights, he's attacking access to reproductive rights. And Wisconsin women are losing  some vital Planned Pa...

Apr 20, 2012 / John Nichols

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