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It's Time To End (Deadly) "Religious Freedom"

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Freedom, Murder, Politics, New York Times, Religious Right, Fiath Healing, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Why aren't parents who kill their children for God not serving life sentences? Because of our crazy ideas about religious freedom that on so many fronts trump not just common sense but the rule of law.

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A Nobel Prayer

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, President Obama, Abuse, Henry Kissinger, Sacrifice, United States, Prophecy, Pray, Bill Kristol, Gandhi, Weapons, Rush Limbaugh, Commitment, Desmond Tutu, Presidency, Peace, Prayer, America, Foreign Policy, Muslim, Nelson Mandela, Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Prize, Conflict, Martin Luther King Jr., Military, New York Times, Worldview, Israeli, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.

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Broncos Uniforms Through The Years (PHOTOS, VOTE)

Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver

Read More: Slidepoll, Broncos Patriots, Broncos History, Broncos Retro, Denver Broncos, New York Times, Broncos Uniforms, Broncos Throwback Uniforms, Denver Broncos Uniform, Bronco Uniforms, Broncos, Denver Broncos Uniforms, New Broncos Uniforms, Bronco Uniform, 1960 Broncos Uniform, Broncos New Uniforms, Denver Broncos Uniforms 1960, Broncos Uniform History, Denver News

Maybe it was just the magnitude of the game, but the retro uniforms worn by the Broncos against the Patriots on Sunday certainly drew a lot of comment...

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Designers Trade Publicity for Style

James Sanders | Posted 10.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Lisa Wu-Hartwell, Emanuel Ungaro, She by Sheree, Closet Freak, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Fashion, Bravo TV, James R. Sanders, Lindsay Lohan Emanuel Ungaro, Multimedia-Fashion-Publishing, New York Times, Paris Fashion Week, Sheree Whitfield, Estrella Archs, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Style News
James Sanders

Publicity is now very important to fashion -- almost as important as the looks that designers show. Is fashion is losing its way? Trading true style for publicity should never be 'in style.'

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New York Times Metro Desk Cancels Newspapers, Magazine Subscriptions

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Newspapers, Media News

The metro desk at the Times was informed today that all magazine and newspaper subscriptions have been canceled. If reporters want to check out the co...

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Why Michiko? Why?

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, New York Time Book Review, Books News
Gerald Sindell

This week in the "Have You No Shame" department, I need to follow up on the N.Y. Time's proclivity to heap multiple reviews on pet books while giving zero coverage to thousands of other worthies.

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Nicholas Wade, Wadeian Evolution, and Twisted Knickers

Dan Agin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Nicholas Wade, Evolution, Media, Darwin, Sociobiology, Media News
Dan Agin

The intellectual difficulty is that human social behavior is like an opera. Evolution provides the floorboards, but the arias, the drama, the story are most directly understood in terms of culture and history.

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The Boston Globe's Future Unclear As Sale Deadline Passes

nytimes.com | RICHARD PEREZ-PENA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Newspapers, Boston Globe, Old Media Death Watch, Death of Print, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Platinum Equity, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Media News

Prospective buyers of The Boston Globe faced a Friday deadline for submitting firm bids, but it remained unclear what would happen next -- or even whe...

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Boeing Steps Up Lobbying Efforts

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Lobbying, New York Times, Defense Spending, Lobbyblog, Business News

The New York Times reports Friday that due to Obama administration cutbacks in spending on weapons systems, defense manufacturer Boeing has intensifie...

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Obama's Nobel: Will Americans Learn to Value Our Own Diversity?

Farai Chideya | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: New York Times, Nicholas Kirstof, Nobel Prize, Barack Obama, World News
Farai Chideya

Obama's Nobel Prize is an endorsement of democracy over the oligarchical governance of the Bush years. It's an acknowledgment of the value of a diverse, heterogeneous population of billions of people.

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Team Obama: Afghan Taliban Not a Threat to U.S.

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Afghanistan, Taliban, Barnett Rubin, Joseph Biden, Stanley McChrystal, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, World News
Robert Naiman

The top official in the Obama Administration, who is actually a leading scholar with long experience in Afghanistan, is leading the charge against sending more troops.

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Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Irving Penn, Charles Dickens, New York Times, Twitter, Metropolitan Museum, Andy Grundberg, Mark Twain, Starbucks, Raymond Carver, Style News
Adam Hanft

Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.

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"Anything Goes" Capitalism Destroys Companies and Workers' Lives

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Simmons Mattress, Private Equity Firm, Private Equity, Scott A. Schoen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Usw, United Steelworkers, Anything Goes, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Standard & Poor’s, Fdr, Cole Porter, Max Gordon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Simmons, Noble Rogers, New York Times, 1929 Crash, Stock Market, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Rober Hellyer, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Anything Goes capitalism workers' lives, but it sure does work for the private equity firms. They made around $750 million in profits from the now-indebted and bankrupt Simmons.

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A Media Failure Compounds Our Financial Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Media Criticism, Peter Schiff, Max Wolff, Wall Street, Recovery, Media News
Danny Schechter

We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up ...

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Trial by Firefight

Rob Fishman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, David Grann, Time Magazine, Npr, Crosicana Daily Sun, Justice Department, Sam Bassett, Innocence Project, Slate, Msnbc, Executions, Kevin Spacey, New Yorker, Barry Scheck, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Bradley, Walter Cronkite, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Bob Herbert, The Life of David Gale, New York Times, Death Penalty, Rick Perry, Dalia Lithwick, Cameron Todd Willingham, Cameron Todd Willingham Innocent, Media News
Rob Fishman

It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?

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Something to Sleep On

Russ Baker | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: NYU Medical Center, William J. Clinton Foundation, Bankruptcy, Harvard University, New York Times, Leveraged Buyouts, Democratic Party, Forbes, Private Equity, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Barack Obama, Charities, Simmons, Business News
Russ Baker

It's worthwhile to have a further look at some of the players cited briefly in the Times article about the Simmons mattress company, so here is a bit more on the private equity kingpin Thomas H. Lee.

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When 'Mad Men' Types -- and Hollywood-- First Played a Key Role in Politics

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Campaigns, Elections, Hollywood Politics, Actresses, Hollywood, Dirty Tricks, Actors, Newspapers, New Deal, The Jungle, Pbs, Mgm, Upton Sinclair, Barack Obama, Fdr, Mad Men, Harry Chandlers, Campaign of the Century, Socialist, President Roosevelt, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Will Rogers, HL Mencken, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.

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Is It Time For The "Mommy Lobby" Or A "Time Out" For Lobbyists?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: New York Times, Big Food, Hamburger, E.Coli, Children, Lobbyists, Healthcare, Health, Robyn O'Brien, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, in 2009, the Agribusiness Industry has spent a total of 1,071 lobbyists who have spent $69,077,420 on lobbying efforts in 2009 to date.

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With The New York Times Now Monitoring, Right-Wing Media Goes Bonkers

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Redstate, Clark Hoyt, Bill Keler, Erick Erickson, New York Times, Jawa Report, Jill Abramson, Michelle Malkin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Like a proud peacock showing off its feathers, the right-wing media was in full bloom, showing the Times all the tricks that have made the movement's trade so renowned.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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"Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Tate Modern, Baroness Kishwer Falker, Richard Prince, Brooke SHields, Roger Kimball, World, Jyette Klausen, London, Yale, Scotland Yard, Entertainment, Guggenheim Museum, Roberta Smith, New York Times, Walker Art Center, Books, Ken Livingstone, Living, Politics, Media News
Raymond J. Learsy

Ominously, officers of the London Police forced the withdrawal of a naked image of actress Brooke Shields, aged 10, from the newly opened "Pop Life" exhibition at the Tate Modern.

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Who's Afraid of China?

Jeremy Haft | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: New York Times, Japan, Economy, China, Energy, World News
Jeremy Haft

The Chinese have been able to price their products so cheaply, in large part, because of currency controls and export rebates. What has looked like a competitive edge is actually a distortion in the market.

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"If News is That Important, It Will Find Me."

Josh Young | Posted 10.03.2009 | Technology

Read More: New York Times, Brian Stelter, Tvnewser, Technology News
Josh Young

There's one really powerful idea shaping the future of news. It's powerful, sure, and has wide-ranging implications for how citizens inform themselves about the world around them. Powerful and yet perfectly simple.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Stopping the Presses: What Will Journalism Resemble in the Post-Print Age?

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Print Media, Rocky Mountain News, USA Today, Media, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Internet Media, Denver Post, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

As I picked up several copies of the shrunken final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, I felt a sadness not only for that issue, but also for the physical transformation of the newspaper.

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