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Jason Linkins

Spencer Ackerman's Self-Correction: This Is How Stories Should Be Retracted

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Retraction, Spencer Ackerman, Media Critcism, The Washington Independent, Journalism, Corrections, Media News

Spencer Ackerman is a friend of mine and a reporter whose expertise and ecumenical fairness are resources I've come to trust. He's also demonstrated ...

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Illegal Immigrants As Less Than Dogs

Yuna Shin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Portsmouth-Town-Hall, Daphne Eviatar, Health Care Reform, Illegal Immigration, Obama Town Hall, Health Care Town Hall, Hillary Roll Call, The Washington Independent, Obama-Health-Care-Town-Hall, Politics News
Yuna Shin

"Last week outside President Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire, one protester shouted," Eviatar tells us, "'We don't need illegals,' adding, 'Send 'em back with a bullet in the head.'"

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St. Louis Teabag Protester Lies about Medical Coverage to Solicit "Donations"

Chris Savage | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, St. Louis, Kenneth Gladney, Unemployed, Unemployment, Universal Health Care, Donations, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Health Benefits, The Washington Independent, Politics News
Chris Savage

Mr. Gladney was neither "laid off" nor without health insurance coverage. He lied in public about needing money for his bills and is now profiting off his lie.

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Adam Schlesinger, Zachary Roth, Matt Taibbi, The Nation, Robert Reich, Goldman Sachs, Eyal Press, Air America, David Moberg, Salon, Weekly Audit, Mary Kane, The Media Consortium, Laura Flanders, JPMorgan Chase, Zach Carter, Grittv, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Independent, Tmc, In These Times, Business News
The Media Consortium

Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 21, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, New York Magazine, Dick Cheney, The Awl, Financial Crisis, The Washington Independent, Torture Memos, Torture, Media News

Over at Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog, there's a thoughtful post up from Philip Zelikow - no bleeding heart, he - about torture. The whole ...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 6, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ethics in Journalism, Media Criticism, Wiretapping, David Weigel, Ethics, Financial Crisis, William K. Black, Calculated Risk, Israel, Mark Halperin, Unitary Executive, Telecom Immunity, Journalism, The Washington Independent, Politics News

Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...

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Jason Linkins

Counterterrorism After Bush: Towards A Progressive Approach

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spencer Ackerman, Counterterrorism, Progressive Counter-Terrorism, Progressives, The Washington Independent, Politics News

Over at the Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman has taken the pulse of a number of self-described "progressives" on their opinions for a new path...

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The Great Populist Divide

Michael Kazin | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Populism, Joseph McCarthy, The Washington Independent, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Michael Kazin

When conservatives began attacking liberals as an elite that was unpatriotic, condescending, ungodly and licentious, they had no rebuttal to offer. This election will, in part, be a test of whether right-wing populism still works.

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