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Confronting the CIA’s Mind Maze Confronting the CIA’s Mind Maze

With the departure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from Washington and the arrival of Barack Obama, it may just be back to the future when it comes to torture policy.

Jun 9, 2009 / Feature / Alfred W. McCoy

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lakers How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lakers

Progressives looking for a team to back in the NBA Finals should steer clear of the Orlando Magic, since their owner, Dick DeVos, is a powerful right-wing zealot.

Jun 5, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin

Buchanan’s Bigotry Finds Home on TV Buchanan’s Bigotry Finds Home on TV

Pat Buchanan launches into paranoid racist rants in response to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

Jun 4, 2009 / Media Matters for America

Back Talk: Graham Parker Back Talk: Graham Parker

A conversation with the author of Fair Use: Notes From Spam about spam, scambaiters and language games.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood

Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

Inquisitions Inquisitions

From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano

The CIA’s Truth Problem The CIA’s Truth Problem

Will the CIA tell Congress the truth? Would Congress listen if it did?

Jun 3, 2009 / Tim Weiner

A Culture War Casualty A Culture War Casualty

Barnett Slepian was the last abortion provider to be gunned down in America, in 1998--until George Tiller.

Jun 3, 2009 / Eyal Press

The Smearing of I.F. Stone, Continued The Smearing of I.F. Stone, Continued

As alleged spy conspiracies go, the case against Izzy is thinner than Paris Hilton.

Jun 3, 2009 / Column / Eric Alterman

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

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