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PBS Adds Insult to Injury PBS Adds Insult to Injury

Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network's new conservative slant. CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation's total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 bil...

Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Sex, Lies and Politics Sex, Lies and Politics

Throwing a bone to its sex-obsessed religious base, the GOP has slipped an abstinence activist into its convention mix of mostly moderate speakers.

Aug 12, 2004 / Lara Riscol

Press Watch Press Watch

A silver lining amid the dismal outpouring of news from Iraq has been the unbroken parade of conservative (and liberal hawk) commentators who now admit--with mea culpas, half-apo...

Aug 12, 2004 / Scott Sherman

Return of the White-ist Return of the White-ist

Not that you missed him while he was gone, but David Duke is back.

Aug 5, 2004 / Feature / Leonard Zeskind

Latin America’s Longest War Latin America’s Longest War

In May, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, called a news conference in New York to declare publicly what he had been warning people about fo...

Jul 29, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Peter Canby

Bush Zones Go National Bush Zones Go National

In the undeclared war against dissent, disagreement has become a crime.

Jul 29, 2004 / Feature / Jim Hightower

Identity Politics Identity Politics

While controversy rages across the country over whether computerized voting machines may result in lost or manipulated votes, there is another change in the election system this ...

Jul 29, 2004 / Feature / Tova Andrea Wang

Time’s Up Time’s Up

It's been four years since the International AIDS Conference was first held in the developing world, in Durban, South Africa, and activists' demand for universal treatment access...

Jul 29, 2004 / Esther Kaplan

Time’s Up Time’s Up

Though Bush trumpets his commitment to the AIDS fight, the delegation he sent to Bangkok was rather anemic.

Jul 22, 2004 / Feature / Esther Kaplan

Homophobia and Apple Pie Homophobia and Apple Pie

Bush keeps claiming to represent "normal" Americans at the expense of "the other."

Jul 20, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

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