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Ward Churchill Asked To Pay $52,000 For Legal Fees

Daily Camera. | Daily Camera | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver


The University of Colorado is seeking to recover more than $52,000 from Ward Churchill to cover costs the school incurred fighting a lawsuit filed by ...

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media


Alexia Tsotsis

For the most part we spent 9-11 watching CNN. The Web in '09 is more about doing rather than watching.

8th Anniversary of Sept 11: Do We Understand Them?

Mohamed Elmenshawy | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Mohamed Elmenshawy

For the Obama administration to continue its focus only on improving the image of the United States abroad, through the approach of "strategic communication" or "public diplomacy," is to see only half of the picture.

Punishing September 11 Culprits: Some Inmates Weigh In

Joseph Cooper | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


Joseph Cooper

Shouldn't a victim of crime have some say in how his or her attacker is dealt with? What's so wrong with retributive justice? I've posed these questions to inmates at a facility where I teach.

Eight Weeks of America's War, Not Eight Years of "Obama's War"

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Jonathan Morgenstein

The Obama administration is trying to salvage the situation in Afghanistan after the Bush Administration lost the war over eight years.

A 9/11 Anniversary Call for Public Service

Laurie M. Tisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York


Laurie M. Tisch

I can't imagine a more appropriate manner in which to observe this solemn anniversary and honor the memory of Sen. Kennedy than through public service.

Van Jones: The Partisan Politics of Mutually Assured Distraction

Beau Friedlander | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Beau Friedlander

Van Jones was the best person for the job he just relinquished. He would have helped Republican lawmakers in their districts. He would have created jobs. He would have made a difference.

"We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.

Build More Autos Overseas: Marginalize More U.S. Families

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

As I toured the U.S. last week on the 11-state, 32-city "Keep it Made in America" bus tour. I talked to unemployed manufacturing workers who are desperate.

Obama Creating Crisis "100 Times As Grim As 9/11": Annapolis Teabaggers

Legum's New Line | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Today, I went down to the City Dock in Annapolis to check out the local "tea party," one of many anti-Obama protests occurring around the nation today...

Could Gitmo Get Worse? The Policy Implications of Executive Accountability

Shahid Buttar | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics


Shahid Buttar

If we can't attain a national consensus against surveillance trampling the rights of every American, what hope exists of a progressive consensus emerging on torture or detention?

McCain, Palin Draw Surprisingly Small Crowds In Ohio

Diane Tucker | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home


Diane Tucker

John McCain and Sarah Palin crisscrossed Ohio over the weekend, appearing at multiple rallies that drew surprisingly small crowds -- especially taking...

Electing Obama Would Show America's Greatness

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

Can we put aside superficialities to elect the most competent man no matter what his name or race is? Are we big enough to do that?

Political Fiction on Economic Crisis, 9-11: Slattery's Liberation and DeLillo's Falling Man

Jeff VanderMeer | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Jeff VanderMeer

"The collapse was a tsunami, and all of us and the American dream had been on the beach, eyes closed, chairs angled at the sun, too close to the water to get away."

Reflecting on Our Response to 9/11

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics


Jim Wallis

Seven years later, as we remember that day, it is appropriate to reflect on the statement and to wonder how the world would be different if its counsel had been heeded.

Watch Rush Limbaugh Take A Royal Dump on 9-11

Steve Young | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media


Steve Young

Whether mocking Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's or lying about...well, anything to make his point, Rush Limbaugh has never met a swamp bottom he couldn't...

Court: Ex-EPA Chief Not Liable For 9/11 Air Pollution Claims

Washington Post | Robin Shulman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics


Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, cannot be held liable for assuring residents near the burning detritus...

Al Qaida Number 2: Iran Propagated 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home


CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden's chief deputy in an audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of trying to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida terror netwo...

Giuliani Op-Ed: I Prepared New York To Handle 9/11

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today on homeland security, Rudy Giuliani references September 11 nine separate times. In one of those instances, he cl...