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Jon Stewart Slams Rick Santelli, CNBC Jon Stewart Slams Rick Santelli, CNBC

Here's an embarrassing 'greatest misses' collection of CNBC's pre-financial meltdown coverage.

Mar 5, 2009 / The Daily Show

Barry Bonds in Context Barry Bonds in Context

This is not about steroids, or an arrogant athlete getting his comeuppance--it's about the mess Bush made of the Justice Department.

Mar 5, 2009 / Column / Dave Zirin

The Third Obama The Third Obama

Dope smokers take heart at Obama's stance on medical marijuana.

Mar 5, 2009 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Will Obama Pay Your Doctor Bills? Will Obama Pay Your Doctor Bills?

A year from now, will America have affordable healthcare? Monica Sanchez, Adam Thompson, and Dr. Walter Tsou on Obama's healthcare reform plan.

Mar 4, 2009 / GRITtv

Why Is Barry Bonds Such a Target? Why Is Barry Bonds Such a Target?

The Nation's Dave Zirin explains why Barry Bonds case is the most public example of the abuses of the Bush-era Justice Department.

Mar 2, 2009 / The Rachel Maddow Show

Church Sex Scandal: Repressed Memory on Trial Church Sex Scandal: Repressed Memory on Trial

Nation columnnist JoAnn Wypijewski discusses the troubling conviction of Priest Paul Shanley, which has been appealed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Mar 2, 2009 / Brett Story

The Politics of Pain The Politics of Pain

It is conceivable that torture will go on spreading underground until it is strong enough to break out once more and redouble the embitterments of classes and of races. If so, mank...

Mar 2, 2009 / Books & the Arts / V.G. Kiernan

The Post’s Stimulus Chimp The Post’s Stimulus Chimp

The uproar over the New York Post's racially insensitive cartoon has nothing to do with Al Sharpton and everything to do with the ugly history of stereotypes.

Feb 27, 2009 / Les Payne

Why We Detain the Innocent Why We Detain the Innocent

Yet again the courts have ignored the Constitution and legal precedent, leaving seventeen innocent Guantánamo detainees in legal limbo.

Feb 26, 2009 / Aziz Huq

We Need a Department of Homegrown Security We Need a Department of Homegrown Security

Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.

Feb 26, 2009 / Feature / Chip Ward

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