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Executive Compensation: The Best Halloween Costume

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business


Jill Schlesinger

Limiting executive compensation is a terrific way to appease the masses and make it look like you're doing something without having to embark on the hard work of true regulatory reform.

Obama's Dilemma

Murray Fromson | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


Murray Fromson

It is not my intention to criticize the Marines whom I covered and admired in combat, both in Korea and Vietnam. But I was stunned to see troops' lack of language training in Afghanistan.

Risky Runoff: From Fish-Roe to Ritalin (My Reaction to "Poisoned Waters," a Recent PBS Frontline Story)

Michael DeJong | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green


Michael DeJong

The particulates from our own medicated bodily fluids are so fine that there are no water processing plants in the world that can trap them.

Hoover, Valenti, Gaydar, and DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics


Aubrey Sarvis

Most normal people today really don't care in which direction a person's sexual compass points, except as the subject of gossip and the gossip goes both ways, so to speak.


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.

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 ...

PBS' Iraq Documentary Sets Online Viewership Record

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media


Executives at "Frontline" do not yet know how many people watched their recent four-and-a-half hour documentary, "Bush's War," because of PBS's compli...