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Is This the End of the War on Crime?

The era of "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" seems, slowly, to be drawing to a close.

Sasha Abramsky

The White House press corps is entirely focused on what happens inside the White House. While that's not irrelevant, it's not what's really important.
Posted 06/18/2010
Robert Gibbs let about 14,000 extra people into the White House press room after the president's address to the nation on BP.
Posted 06/18/2010
Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet, dishes on connections between what we eat and our warming planet.
Posted 06/18/2010

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News and Features

The politics of the Templeton Foundation's "Big Questions."

Despite conservative attempts to whitewash what they learn in school, young Americans are a diverse and tolerant bunch—and they know it.

The CIA and me and other adventures in American sports.

Tens of thousands gathered Saturday on the steps of the Arizona legislature to protest the new "Papers, Please" law.

Fresh faces aside, the Republican Party's stance on the issues that matter to working mothers is as regressive as it's ever been.

Blogs

Blogs

Eric's reflections from the concert hall and theater.

Today featuring scary oil leak warning, Jon Stewart and "President" Maddow on losing energy, Nick Kristof on a ratty Father's Day, fun from Spinal Tap and a tribute to Phil Ochs, much more.

David Cameron apologized for the killings of "Bloody Sunday" after 38 years. How long will it take for an apology for other state killings? 

There's a tension between the Obama administration and the progressive movement, but it's not the one mainstream media have been describing or that the White House seems to perceive.

Your daily media and politics roundup, today featuring Obama's energy (or lack of), Jon Stewart on Afghanistan, Orrin Hatch's drug test,  the day after Bloody Sunday report,  Palin and Beck get roasted, and more.