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Sunday Show Guests Skew Conservative: Study

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 04.18.2012

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The Sunday talk shows are tilted in favor of conservative guests, a new study by the left-wing media watchdog FAIR asserts. Sunday morning shows ar...

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Highlights From Frieze 2011

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 12.21.2011

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Constantin Bjerke

Frieze Art Fair showcases the best and most innovative contemporary art from around the world - and this year represented over 170 galleries. From tho...

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Ten Years Later: Keeping The Spirit Of The American Revolution

DeeDee Garcia Blase | Posted 11.11.2011

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DeeDee Garcia Blase

Have we allowed domestic and foreign terrorists to control our policies, and thus allowed them to create a deep-seated fear within us? And have these policies continued to chip away at our freedoms?

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Elise Foley

GOP Candidates Mainly Quiet On Undocumented Immigration

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Ahead of the Wednesday night GOP presidential debate, groups that work against undocumented immigration are voicing concern that the can...

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The Psychological Price Of Unfair Pay

Wray Herbert | Posted 11.03.2011

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Wray Herbert

It appears that the unconscious mind can temporarily damp down the brain's contempt center, in effect allowing the rational, utilitarian brain to rule, at least momentarily.

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New Obama Immigration Policy is Neither New, Nor a Solution to America's Immigration Fiasco

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 10.20.2011

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Fernando Espuelas

Comprehensive immigration reform, enacted by Congress and signed into law by the President, is the only real path to end our national immigration nightmare.

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NDP: Unfinished Business With Integrity Commissioner Probe

CBC.ca | Laura Payton | Posted 07.22.2011

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The New Democrats say they aren't finished with an investigation into the work of the former public sector integrity commissioner, even if a committee...

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WATCH: The High Court Of Design: Milan's Salone Internazionale

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 07.06.2011

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Constantin Bjerke

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile is for design what the Venice Biennale is for art and architecture. It's ...

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Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federa...

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Weekly Diaspora: Why Sexual Violence Against Latina Farmworkers is a Hate Crime

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger This week, two high-profile trials involving the racially motivated murders of Latinos in Pennsylva...

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Weekly Diaspora: Why Arizona's Birthright Bill is Bad for the Economy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona lawmakers are expected to introduce an "anchor baby" bill today that would deny birthright ...

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Billboard: "God Doesn't Discriminate, Why Should Utah?"

Axel W. Caballero | Posted 05.25.2011

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Axel W. Caballero

Utah has become the next ground zero in the immigration battle. A new bill mimics Arizona's SB 1070 and incorporates pieces that effectively legalize racial profiling and institutionalized discrimination.

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Weekly Diaspora: Tucson Shooting Reshapes Explosive Immigration Debate

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Tucson shooting that left Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) critically wounded and 6 oth...

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The F Word: Leaving the People Out of the Debate

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on U.S. TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them.

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WikiLeaks Exposes More Than Documents

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Rather than focus on the substance of the leaked diplomatic cables, American journalists tend to either frame the story as being about the "over-classification" of documents or the personal motivations and private life of Julian Assange.

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Weekly Diaspora: Arizona's SB 1070 Takes Nativist Fever Nationwide

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger While Arizona's draconian anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, was far from the first controversial immigra...

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Time Magazine Reporter Goes Mental Over Congo Piece

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Perry, Time magazine's Africa bureau chief, wrote a highly offensive and inaccurate piece essentially calling for the recolonization of the Congo by China.

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PBS and our "Need to Know" the Truth

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rory O'Connor

Alison Stewart is one of the anchors of Need To Know, a new public television public affairs offering that began stirring controversy long before its launch.

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The Far-Right Movement Behind Arizona Copycat Bills

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seth Freed Wessler

In a majority of the states where immigration legislation has been proposed or discussed, the lawmakers behind the bills are associated with a group called State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

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The F Word: Another Super Bowl, Another Scandal

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

It's Super Bowl season, another year, another scandal. This year's outburst over CBS's $3 million Focus on the Family ad has revived the mythology a...

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CNN Drops Dobbs: To All Those Who Joined Us in the Drop Dobbs Campaign

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janet Murguía

Yesterday's resignation came after thousands of people and organizations pressured CNN to stop Dobbs's biased coverage of our community and the immigration debate.

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CNN, You Can't Have It Both Ways: It's Either Dobbs or Your Latino Future

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.25.2011

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Roberto Lovato

A few hours of serious reporting on Latinos by sunny Soledad O'Brien can't make up for thousands of hours of anti-Latino extremism from the dark Lou Dobbs.

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My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Welcome once again to our year-end wrap-up and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group, from whom I have stolen all these award categories.

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CNN: It's Time to Deport Lou Dobbs

Adam Luna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adam Luna

What else does Dobbs have to do to get fired?

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Dobbs To Rally Anti-Immigrant Fans On Capitol Hill

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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On September 15 and 16, Lou Dobbs is scheduled to once again broadcast his radio show from Capitol Hill as part of the "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" l...

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