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How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday

So here it is, Superbowl Sunday, or as I prefer to call it, Focus on the Fetus Sunday. If you support women's right to decide for themselves when and if to continue a pregnancy, ...

Feb 7, 2010 / Katha Pollitt

Around The Nation Around The Nation

Hopefully you've read Professor Lawrence Lessig's provocative new essay, "How to Get Our Democracy Back." Lessig's piece is essential reading for people across the politi...

Feb 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal

It's Super Bowl season, another year, another scandal. This year's outburst over CBS's $3 million Focus on the Family ad has revived the mythology around another Super Bowl ad, t...

Feb 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Climate Science Under Fire Climate Science Under Fire

The drizzle of allegations that climate scientists have fudged data, drawn on dodgy sources, withheld information and frozen out dissenters has now become a downpour.

Feb 5, 2010 / Maria Margaronis

Last Flight to Abu Dhabi Last Flight to Abu Dhabi

Billy Bragg, a living legend of the British punk and folk music scenes, just released a new song as catchy and relevant as anything he's produced in many years.

Feb 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg

Sparking a Media Revolution Sparking a Media Revolution

Authors of The Death and Life of American Journalism propose the government grant subsidies to ensure that democracy and a thriving press survive.

Feb 5, 2010 / Press Room

The Commercials Are the Super Bowl The Commercials Are the Super Bowl

The thirty-second spots for chips, beer, babes and flatulent slackers star in the big game.

Feb 5, 2010 / Feature / Robert Lipsyte

Slacker Friday Slacker Friday

They call this "Journalism?"

Feb 5, 2010 / Eric Alterman

Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate Let All Super Bowl Ads Advocate

David Zirin argues for a Super Bowl chock-full of advocacy ads.

Feb 5, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show

The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget The Breakdown: Defense Spending and the 2011 Budget

What effect will the reduction in troops in Iraq that Obama has promised have on defense spending?

Feb 5, 2010 / Chris Hayes

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