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Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Don McNay

You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.

Afghan Troop Request Hides Real Numbers

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


Jeff Stein

Despite grim new portraits of U.S. fortunes in Afghanistan, Washington's debate over troop levels continues unhinged from reality.

PBS' Frontline To Premiere 'Obama's War' About Afghanistan War (VIDEO)

PBS | The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media


PBS' Frontline premieres its new season this Tuesday with a riveting new documentary titled "Obama's War." Featuring some of the most gripping war fo...

HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Philip Lee Miller

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

American Violet: A Powerful Movie about Race and the Drug War

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Without spoiling the ending, American Violet is an excellent movie, and tells the story in a moving and heart-wrenching fashion.

I'm No Michael J. Fox, but...

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living


Kathleen Reardon

Tonight on Frontline or online you can watch Dave Iverson's "My Father, My Brother and Me." If you have Parkinson's disease or know someone who does, I recommend it highly.

Counting our Blessings...

Charlie Cray | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


Charlie Cray

As a progressive, I expect to be frustrated by Obama's tilt on issues. But if there's one thing that he seems destined to do is unite the country in ways we haven't seen for a long time.

What to do with Detroit?

Dave Winer | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business


Dave Winer

We're giving Detroit money we don't have to feed and house their employees and bail out their suppliers. We're doing it to save our country, not to save the auto industry as it's currently configured.

PBS Sidelines Torture Documentary Until After New President's Inauguration

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media


"Torturing Democracy," a documentary examining the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies, will be shown on WNET in New York on Th...

Did PBS Bury An Expose On Torture?

The Daily Beast | Scott Horton | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media


This spring, PBS's distinguished Frontline series aired a mildly critical account of the lead-up to the Iraq War entitled "Bush's War." As the airing ...

"Cheney's Law:" PBS Documentary Profiles Dick Cheney

Talking Points Memo | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A long, twilight struggle between Dick Cheney and the forces of evil is the subject of an impressive new Frontline documentary, "Cheney's Law," airing...