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Slouching Towards Faux

Slouching Towards Faux

From Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Casey Anthony to Rupert Murdoch, the media are debasing the public conversation—and therefore our democratic process.

Posted July 13, 2011

The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia

The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia

Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.

Posted July 12, 2011

Bernanke Not Ready to Address Unemployment... Yet

Bernanke Not Ready to Address Unemployment... Yet

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before Congress this week and sent mixed messages on his willingness to address the jobs crisis. 

Posted July 15, 2011

Books and the Arts

Esther studied botany and biochemistry, and ended up serving Cokes to arms dealers in Delhi’s Hotel Shangri-La. She is a station holder, occupied and rootless. Welcome to India Shining.

Has success spoiled the photography and the art of Jeff Wall?

For Anatol Lieven, Pakistan is a dangerous, fearsome country, a hard place to live and harder still to govern.

News and Analysis

Bill Clinton in Leogane, Haiti

Structurally unsafe and laced with formaldehyde, the "hurricane-proof" classroom trailers installed by the Clinton Foundation in Haiti came from the same company being sued for sickening Hurricane Katrina victims.

As stunning revelations break daily in the hacking scandal, Rupert and James Murdoch withdraw News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB. But the inquiry into Murdoch’s para-corporation shouldn’t end here.

A trove of documents reveals the vast procorporate strategy of this powerful right-wing group.

Academics flocked to a Paris conference in Tony Judt’s memory—but solutions to the growing anti-government absolutism he warned of were scarce.

School crossing

Aggressively pushing voucher programs, ALEC is calling on states to “transform the system, don't tweak it" in a large-scale assault on public education.

Poll

Do you think that negative publicity from Murdoch's hacking scandal will affect his US publications?
No - Murdoch wields enough power to do effective damage control and keep the scandal contained to England.
23%
Yes - But it won't matter, because FOX News has such a loyal viewership.
37%
Yes - Advertisers are already dropping FOX News, affecting their finances despite their loyal viewership.
27%
Yes - And it will be bad for journalism because of how many news organizations in the US are Murdoch-funded.
13%
Total votes: 1243