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The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Pollution, Chicago River, Chicago River Sewage, Natural Resources Defense Council, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Water, Chicago, Great Lakes, Privatization, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ballast-Water, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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UN's Goldstone Sent 13-Year-Old Boy to Prison for Protesting Apartheid

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Apartheid, Nelson Mandela, Goldstone Report, Human Rights, Gaza, UN Human Rights Council, Israel, New York Times, Goldstone, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Prior to his work for the international court, Goldstone cut his judicial teeth on the bench of South Africa's Supreme Court under the apartheid regime.

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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Keith Bradsher, Cap and Trade, Russ Choma, President Obama, Washington D.C., Renewable Energy, Usw, Blue Green Alliance, Obama, Congress, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, Investigative Reporting Workshop, Iberdrola, China, Stimulus, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Unemployment, Fossil Fuels, Buy American, Windmills, New York Times, Republicans, Windmill Farm, Green Energy, Green News
Leo W. Gerard

Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.

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Matthew Hoh, Daniel Ellsberg Discuss Aghanistan, Vietnam Wars (VIDEO)

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karzai, Afghanistan, President Obama, Vietnam War, Kabul, Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Pentagon Papers, White House, Brave New Films, Matthew Hoh, New York Times, Vietnam, US State Department, Politics News

Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg, recently sat down for a conversation about the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh made headlines late last month when ...

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Congress: Protect American Writers and Publishers from Being Sued Overseas

Judy Platt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: First Amendment Rights, Libel Tourism, Free Speech, Congress, Brazilian Law, Writing, Defamation, Brazil, Lawsuit, England, Funding Evil, Saudi Arabia, Libel, New York Times, Publishers, Air Traffic, Mahfouz, Books News
Judy Platt

Your book's been published in the United States for an American audience. Someone who's mentioned in the book doesn't like what you've written and sues you for libel, but he doesn't sue you here, where the book has been published.

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'Too Big To Fail': Andrew Ross Sorkin-Lesley Stahl Interview (AUDIO)

wowOwow | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Henry Paulson, New York Times, Banks, Financial Crisis, Lesley Stahl, Dealbook, Business News

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a New York Times financial columnist, the editor of Dealbook, a popular financial blog, and most recently, the author of Too Big...

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Newspapers Raided: Police Raid New York Newspaper Offices For Union Corruption Probe

AP | COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: El Diario, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, New York Post, Daily News, New York Times, Circulation Offices, Teamsters, Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, Newspaper Raid, Newspapers Raided, New York News

NEW YORK — Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a pow...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger in Iraq

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Empire, Chalmers Johnson, Nouri Al-Maliki, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brit Hume, California Politics, Fox News, Governor Schwarzenegger, Kevin Phillips, William Greider, Military Spending, Iraq War, Baghdad, New York Times, Schwarzenegger, Health Care, Baghdad Trade Fair, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Brit Hume of FOX News once compared Iraq's murder rate to California's to downplay the level of American casualties because the two places are similar...

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Letterman Mocks NYT For Cover Story On The Word "Douche" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Douche, New York Times, Letterman Douche, Video, Douche New York Times, Nyt, David Letterman, Comedy News

The New York Times ran a front page story this Saturday about the "douche" and its prevelance on television. "On many nights this fall, it has been ...

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David Brooks on Palin: A Profile in Cowardice

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Sarah Palin, David Brooks, Media News
Greg Mitchell

It was amusing -- if appalling -- to watch David Brooks yesterday declare that Sarah Palin is a "joke" and only qualified to be a TV "talk show host." During the 2008 campaign he believed the same thing but refused to put it in print.

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Malcolm Gladwell and the Case For Endless Self-Googling

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Outliers, The New Yorker, Book Reviews, What the Dog Saw, Essays, Writer, Steven Pinker, Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, Eigenvalue, Igon Value, Authors, Self-Googling, Algebra, New York Times, Malcolm Gladwell, Books, Books News, Google, Books News
David Quigg

I piled cringe upon cringe Friday -- first because I read Steven Pinker's vivisection of Malcolm Gladwell's new collection, second because of what I found when I Googled a flub Pinker wielded against Gladwell.

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An Interview With David Bromwich About Obama, Afghanistan

Radio Open Source | Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Yale, David Bromwich, Obama Job Performance, Bromwich, Press Criticism, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Obama Watch, New York Times, Obama, Iraq, Watson Institute, William Safire, New York Times Watch, Media News

David Bromwich seems to me better yet at Obama-watching than at press criticism. He can write with penetration of Barack Obama as an American almost-l...

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Please Don't Tolerate Me, Reverend Senator Díaz

Johnathan Wilber | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Gang of Three, Family Values, New York State Senate, Christopher Lynn, New York Times, Christian Right, Richard Dawkins, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, New York, Sarah Palin, Reverend Ruben Diaz, Politics News
Johnathan Wilber

I guess I need one of these evangelists to explain the "it's nothing personal" thing to me. Because frankly I can't imagine a single thing more personal than denying my family rights.

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The Dilemma's Innovator

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clusterstock, Mortgage, Business Insider, John Carney, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, New York Times, Fail, Homebuyers Tax Credit, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Instead of perpetuating the federal government's over-subsidization of homeowners and under-subsidization of renters, Congress should work to develop a housing policy that helps, not hurts, low-income households.

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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Church and State in JFK's America

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Patrick J. Kennedy, Jfk, Thomas J. Tobin, Separation of Church and State, Vatican, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

Whatever happened to the America that JFK believed in? The America in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials"?

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Teens Need Kitchen Counter-Culture

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Gap, The Gap, Transvestites, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Apples, Van Gogh, Punks, Emos, Michael Pollan, Freakanomics, Takepart, New York Times, Sustainability, Washington Post, Ll Bean, Heirloom, Diversity, Pucci, Green News
Sarah Newman

It's ironic that teens today are correctly pushing the social agenda in their schools to allow a diversity of identities to be expressed but are consuming foods that have little nutritional value and are uniform.

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Shahien Nasiripour

The Economist The Obama Administration Should Have Listened To

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Loan Modification, Subprime Mbs, Making Home Affordable, Geanakoplos, John Geanakoplos, Home Affordable Modification, Loan Mods, Mbs, Mortgages, Hamp, Bailout Bandits, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout, New York Times, Susan Koniak, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Home Loan Mods, The Economist, The Economist That Obama Should Have Listened To, Business News

Eight months ago, the Obama administration launched a plan to help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing $75 billion in taxpayer funds to...

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Iraq & Afghan Wars: Just Give Me Some Truth

Rory O'Connor | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iraq War, New York Times, Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Kudos, at long last, to Alissa Rubin for having the courage to say she was wrong. Here's hoping she and others in the Kabul class of 2009 will do better in the future in Afghanistan.

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Why Roland Burris Matters to Barack Obama, Right Now

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Health Care Reform, New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Stupak Amendment, Abortion, Senate, Constitution, Public Option, Abortion Rights, Harry Reid, Chicago News
Rebecca Sive

Roland could write an epitaph on that vaunted tombstone of his that actually matters. And, Roland, take note: By doing this, you will have saved the lives of millions of American women.

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Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Shootings, Army Shooting, Eric Harris, Politics News, Terrorism, Dylan Klebold, Media, Journalism, Major Nidal Hasan, Reporting, Harris, Politics, Cnn, Army, Virginia Tech Shooting, Cho Seung-Hui, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, New York Times, Fox News, Racism, Racism in Media, Colombine Shootings, US Army, Virginia Tech Massacre, Wolf Blitzer, Fort Hood Shootings, Klebold, Colombine, Media News
Brian Ross

When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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About That Piece on Transracial Adoptions in the New York Times...

Deborah Douglas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: National Association of Black Social Workers, Black Children, Interracial-Adoption, Black Adoptees, New York Times, Asian Adoptees, Race, Transracial Adoption, African Americans, Adoption, Living News
Deborah Douglas

The Asian-adoptee identity crisis reported in the Times might finally lend credence to what black social workers have been saying all along: Ethnic and racial identity matters.

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The Delusions of Alessandra Stanley

Barry Levinson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Poliwood, Alessandra Stanley, Tv Reviews, Barry Levinson, Hbo, Media News
Barry Levinson

I am about to do something that, for the most part, is never done. I am going to criticize a critic. Filmmakers are never supposed to respond to a critic about their work. But in this case, I feel compelled.

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The Pride of Precious Jones

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Whites, Harlem, Poverty, Gabourey Sidibe, Real Estate, Race, Hollywood, Barack Obama, New York, Rodney King, South Africa, Unemployed, Precious, Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz, Blacks, Paula Patton, Lee Daniels, Michael Mccollom, Brooklyn, Sapphire, Push, Mo'Nique, Armand White, A. O. Scott, Divas, The Color Purple, New York Press, Mariah Carey, New York Times, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.

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