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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

Question Time in Our Democracy Question Time in Our Democracy

"We live in a world that increasingly demands more dialogue than monologue." Those are words from the founding manifesto issued earlier this week by a diverse group of bl...

Feb 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo Meet Tea Partisan Tom Tancredo

How politically credible are the leading figures in the Tea Party movement that is rallying this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville? Let them Tea Party proclaimers ...

Feb 5, 2010 / John Nichols

The Expanding US War in Pakistan The Expanding US War in Pakistan

Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously ackno...

Feb 4, 2010 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill

Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry

The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.

Feb 4, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

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