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Shameless in Colorado Shameless in Colorado

Antichoice activists cross another line.

Feb 25, 2005 / Feature / Sharon Lerner

The Pajama Game The Pajama Game

It's hard to know who to root against in the bloggers vs. CNN controversy that led to the resignation of CNN's Eason Jordan, a twenty-three-year veteran of the network.

Feb 24, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman

Playing by the Numbers Playing by the Numbers

My friend L., a magistrate in Britain, is appalled by American-style sentencing, which has taken hold there recently.

Feb 24, 2005 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Dirty Politics, Foul Air Dirty Politics, Foul Air

At Pittsburgh's Jefferson Elementary School, which overlooks the dark gray plumes from two electric power plants, there are so many children with asthma the school nurse alphabet...

Feb 24, 2005 / Rebecca Clarren

Sex & GOP ‘Values’ Sex & GOP ‘Values’

Mourning the loss of "moral values" voters, Democratic leaders have been softening the party's language on reproductive rights.

Feb 24, 2005 / The Editors

Back to Salem Back to Salem

Off goes former Father Paul Shanley to state prison in Massachusetts for twelve to fifteen years, convicted of digitally raping and otherwise sexually abusing Paul Busa two decad...

Feb 17, 2005 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Dazed and Confused Dazed and Confused

Perhaps no cultural phenomenon has been as successful at demonizing alcohol as MTV's The Real World. Watch it sometime. You'll never want to drink again.

Feb 17, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Suzy Hansen

Free-Speech Fights Free-Speech Fights

Rummaging through Yale University's library shelves in early 2001 to prepare a talk on news media and genocide, I came across a study of nineteenth-century Colorado newspapers by...

Feb 17, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro

The Lynne Stewart Trial The Lynne Stewart Trial

Click here for info on how you can help Lynne Stewart.

Feb 17, 2005 / David Cole

Shooting the Messenger Shooting the Messenger

Click here to read Christian Parenti's March 29, 2004 Nation article on the abuse of Arab journalists by the US military in Iraq.

Feb 17, 2005 / Jeremy Scahill

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