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Why Is Yazan Sawalha in Prison?
Israel has detained the son of a prominent Palestinian peace activist, and refuses to say why.
Megan Tady
The First Rule About Campus Conservatives…
Brian Cook
Culture
Rocking Lolita in Tehran
Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet
Colin Meyn
Viewpoint
Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex
Barely regulated banks are getting away with one usurious practice after the next: not only the subprime fiasco, but the extortionate service fees on your bank accounts and the escalating interest fees, late fees and truncated payment cycles on your credit cards
Susan J. Douglas
I Can Has Book Deal?
Brian Cook
Dispatch
No New Year Resolutions?
SEC proposes curbing shareholder power
Kari Lydersen
Viewpoint
The End of Impunity?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is trying to revive efforts to hold the Bush administration accountable
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
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Corporate Potluck
Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows
Jacob Wheeler
Viewpoint
Come on Cosby, Stop Hatin’
Cosby makes blanket indictments of an entire class of black people and offers only exhortations from the sidelines
Salim Muwakkil
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Kiriakou and the Kite Runner
The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Conflict of interest?
Adam Doster
Nobel Laureate George W. Bush?
Sanhita SinhaRoy
Feature
Lights! Camera! Collective Action!
The Writers Guild of America strikes to secure a piece of the pie in the Digital Age
David Moberg
Wisky labor history
Adam Doster
Viewpoint
The Boy Who Cried WMD
It's time for George W. Bush to holster his guns and ride off into that Wild West sunset only he can see
Sanhita SinhaRoy
Culture
King of the Crop
Two years ago the federal government spent $9.4 billion to promote corn production, driving small farmers off their lands in Mexico, because they were unable to compete with U.S. imports
Ben Terrall
Thanks, Democrats! We Couldn’t Have Tortured ‘Em Without You!
Jarrett
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Hanging Hate
Backlash against the Jena Six case sparks an epidemic of public nooses
David A Love
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