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Saturday, August 30, 2008

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The higher death toll from The Lancet informs anti-war statements like the traveling Iraq Body Count Exhibit, which posts a small flag for each of the dead.

Counting the Dead Freighted with Controversy

by: Michael Todd, Mon Aug 18 15:08:00 -0700 2008

Body counts matter whether it comes to generating headlines or political activity, so efforts to gain usable numbers…

It's good to know that the nation's fake news is more balanced than its real news ...

"Two Candidates Walk Into a Bar ..."

by: Michael Todd, Thu Aug 21 14:47:00 -0700 2008

Among one subset of likely voters, John McCain is outpolling Barack Obama by a more than 4-to-3 margin: TV jokesters.…

Hector Cardenas had diabetes and chose to have his foot amputated. Then he lost his job and the health insurance that would've paid for a prosthetic foot.

Death by Pink Slip

by: Tom Jacobs, Tue Aug 26 09:00:00 -0700 2008

A film on a health care system that impoverishes and kills people, just because they lose their jobs.

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Two to Tango: Media Overlooks Secular Influence

Written by: Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, Friday 28 March 2008 - 15:23 PM 0 Comments

In the second part of an examination of "A Prejudice for the Thinking Classes," two professors argue that liberal-leaning outlets harp on religious conservatives' ties to GOP.

Tracking the Anti-Christian Fundamentalist Phenomenon

Written by: Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, Thursday 27 March 2008 - 11:33 AM 0 Comments

In the first of two parts, two political science professors examine how otherwise sophisticated observers find it OK to disparage Christian fundamentalists, a prejudice, the writers assert, of the thinking classes.

Plagiarism and Fraud: A Writers’ Doping Scandal

Written by: Tom Jacobs, Tuesday 11 March 2008 - 10:09 AM 0 Comments

Recent high-profile instances of plagiarism reflect — and possibly are a cause of — a rise in such activity among college students. The cut-and-paste culture of the Internet is also a factor.

Rising Storm

Written by: Matt Palmquist, Tuesday 04 March 2008 - 13:57 PM 0 Comments

Views, Reviews and Interviews: Documentary journalism takes on a new multimedia format at its extraordinary new home, MediaStorm.org.

Why Miller-McCune and Why Now?

Written by: John Mecklin, Tuesday 04 March 2008 - 12:38 PM 1 Comments

Noted journalist James Fallows helps us explain our new magazine and Web site.