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Dear ITT Ideologist: American Exceptionalism and GOP Bondage

Pete Karman

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Choose Your Own Budget

Chicagoans cut out the elected middle man to improve their neighborhood with $1.3 million in taxes.

Robin Peterson

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An Assault on Academic Freedom?

Students say an evangelical university in Chicago showed a professor the door because of his views on Palestine and the Christian right.

Sara Peck

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This Land Is Our Land

Nativists in Arizona jump-start the immigration reform movement.

Micah Uetricht

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Smile, You’re an Activist!

Marching or signing a petition is a surefire way to find happiness, researchers say.

Robin Petré

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Slow Food vs. the City of Chicago

Behind the culinary times, Windy City bureaucrats crack down on canning and charcuteries.

Robin Peterson

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The Life of Brian

As elections approach, Britain's most visible activist maintains his stubborn vigil.

Dawn Starin

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Dear ITT Ideologist: Plutocrats and Endangered Leftists

Pete Karman

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Sewage Sludge Everlasting

Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Foundation jumps on the ‘biosolids’ bandwagon.

Patrick Trahey

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Global Warming Out in the Cold

Controversies and weird weather damage climate science's credibility.

Theo Anderson

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Dear ITT Ideologist: Tea-Timers and Conservocrats in Debit City

Pete Karman

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What Has Barack Obama Done for Black America?

Tavis Smiley gathers prominent black leaders, intellectuals and activists to take the president to task.

Laura S. Washington

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Free Press Haven

Iceland may soon become utopia for journalists and publishers.

Samuel Knight

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How to Fairly Fund an Election

Campaign finance reform advocates defend the constitutionality of Connecticut's public funding law.

Melinda Tuhus

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Mr. Trust Buster

Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz’s quest to fix the U.S. economy.

Eric M. Johnson

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Gitmo Closure

Thanks to Facebook, two former detainees reunite with their guilty guard.

Patrick Trahey

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Dear ITT Ideologist: Fundamentalist Real Estate and Corporate Sex

Pete Karman

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Helping Haiti, for a Price

Private security contractors begin to capitalize on the disaster.

Jeremy Gantz

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A Supreme Injustice

A recent ruling will flood the political process with corporate money. Can anything be done?

Theo Anderson

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Which Side Are You On?

The 'House of Labor' tries to have it both ways with the Supreme Court's momentous campaign finance decision.

Roger Bybee

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A Lobo in Sheeps Clothing?

New Honduran president's legitimacy questioned as 'one-sided civil war' deepens human rights crisis, national bankruptcy declared

Jeremy Kryt

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Same Work, More Play

As states look to save money, some are shortening public employees' workweek to four days.

Michelle Chen

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Dear ITT Ideologist: Hot Products and ATM Inspiration

Pete Karman

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States of Pain

The fiscal crises unfolding in legislatures across the country will only get worse in 2010.

Chris Maisano