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Is Wikipedia the New Town Hall?

Patricia Aufderheide

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Americas Own Worst Enemy

Mark Engler

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Who’s Afraid of Peter Boyle?

Rick Perlstein

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Mr. Smith Doesnt Go To Washington

Erin Polgreen

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A Wingnut in Sheeps Clothing

Phyllis Eckhaus

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In You More Than Yourself

The revolutionary potential of the Internet is far from self-evident

Slavoj Žižek

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Extreme Humanitarians

Todd Lillethun

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The Spychopath Who Loved Me

Brian Cook

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Seeds of Hope: Gardening in Barren Times

Joshua Arthurs

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Children of the Brand

Daniel Thomas Cook

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Cholera and the City

Aaron Sarver

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The Skinny on Thin

Thin, a movie filmed at the Renfrew Center, follows four women in their battle with eating disorders.

Jessica Clark

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The Power of Mean

Fuller argues that the moral power of Rankism = that everyone experiences being a somebody and a nobody - can overcome the innate force of bullying?

Lakshmi Chaudhry

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Live At Your Own Risk

Yale Political Scientist Jacob Hacker says the widening gap between rich and poor is a "great risk shift" from collective institutions to individuals.

David Moberg

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Beyonce’s Bootyful B’Day

Beyonce Knowles's transformation as a pop star exemplifies the quarterlife identity crisis felt by many twenty-somethings.

Natalie Y. Moore

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Blumenthals First Draft of History

Princeton University Press has published a compilation of articles by Sidney Blumenthal called How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime

Rick Perlstein

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Women and Their Boxes

For too long women have dwelled on the categories that box them in.

Phoebe Connelly

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The Tragedy of Gary Webb

Hounded out of Journalism and pushed to suicide, the Gary Webb story is a cautionary tale about the dangers in speaking truth to power

Doug Ireland

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Jesus Is Tragic

The movie Jesus Camp by Heidi Ewing and Cahel Grady exposes the terrifying power the Christian Right has to indoctrinate and manipulate children.

Anthony Kaufman

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YouTube in MeWorld

According to Anthropologist Thomas de Zengotita, Websites like MySpace and YouTube encourage socializing and self adolation.

Jessica Clark

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I.F. Stone: Iconic Muckracker

Myra MacPherson wrote a new book "All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone.

Steve Weinberg

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White Blight

Arguments for "race neutrality" are used to curtail Civil Rights advances.

Nancy MacLean

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Plagiarists: Catch Your Own Clue

Plagarism is running rampant.

Susan J. Douglas

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Why Hemingway Is Chick-Lit

Women read more fiction than men.

Lakshmi Chaudhry