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Remembering Tiananmen Square Remembering Tiananmen Square

The Tiananmen Square massacre remains shrouded in myth. This eyewitness report by a Human Rights Watch observer makes the horror plain.

Jun 2, 2009 / Feature / Robin Munro

Gun (In)Sanity Gun (In)Sanity

Despite a Democratic Congress and President, it's been a bad time for common sense measures to curb gun violence. Earlier this year, a voting rights bill for the citizens of the...

Jun 2, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Jon Stewart Slams Sotomayor Coverage Jon Stewart Slams Sotomayor Coverage

Politicians and pundits cannot seem to look past Supreme Court Justice-nominee Sonia Sotomayor's Hispanic heritage.

Jun 2, 2009 / The Daily Show

Olbermann: Fox News ‘Complicit’ in Tiller Murder Olbermann: Fox News ‘Complicit’ in Tiller Murder

Has Bill O'Reilly finally gone too far? MSNBC's Keith Olbermann links the murder of Dr. George Tiller to Fox News.

Jun 2, 2009 / Countdown

Domestic Terror and The Death of Dr. Tiller Domestic Terror and The Death of Dr. Tiller

A look at the media's response to Dr. George Tiller's murder and what pro-choice organizations need to do moving forward.

Jun 2, 2009

Countering Anti-Choice Terrorism Countering Anti-Choice Terrorism

I believe the murder of George Tiller was an act of domestic terrorism whose aim was not only to assassinate a single man, but also to frighten a generation of doctors and to shame...

Jun 2, 2009 / Melissa Harris-Perry

George Tiller: What If? George Tiller: What If?

  When a person who has been targeted before is murdered, as Dr. George Tiller was, there are a lot of what ifs. What if, back in the 1990s, after the first atte...

Jun 2, 2009 / Laura Flanders

The Rape of Gaza The Rape of Gaza

How would you feel if you found out that an American school, paid for with your tax dollars, was bombed and completely destroyed by a US ally? This happened in Gaza just a few mont...

Jun 2, 2009 / Roane Carey

George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars? George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars?

It's too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by t...

Jun 1, 2009 / Eyal Press

Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care Obama’s Organizing Chief: Supporters Push Sotomayor, Health Care

Speaking to a liberal summit in Washington today, Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart outlined how the DNC is tapping Obama's campaign network to advance the administrati...

Jun 1, 2009 / Ari Melber

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