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Lesson of a Lifetime

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:40:19 -0400

Her bold experiment to teach Iowa third graders about racial prejudice divided townspeople and thrust her onto the national stage. Decades later, Jane Elliott's students say the ordeal changed them for good

Phantom Flight From Florida

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:26:04 -0400

The private Saudi flight that George W. Bush doesn't admit existed.

9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes

Wed, 16 May 2007 17:09:25 -0400

Reconstructing the chaotic morning of 9/11 from NORAD's control room audio tapes -- and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.

By Michael Bronner, Vanity Fair, August 2006

Tentacles of Rage: A Brief History of the Republican Propaganda Mill

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:39:54 -0400

by Lewis H. Lapham, editor emeritus of Harpers Magazine, September 2004

The Terrorism Article the NYT Doesn't Want You to Read

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:39:43 -0400

The New York Times published an article on Al Qaeda's threats against the United States on September 9, 2001 -- then removed all traces of it from their archives after September 11. Read it here.

A Blacklist Burning for Bush

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:56:52 -0400

The more you look the more disbarred and 'disappeared' Gore voters you find. You'd almost think it was deliberate.

The Downing Street Memo

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:45:29 -0400

A top-secret British government document with meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002, summarizing the Bush Administration's desire for war with Iraq and the British government wondering how to justify it.

The Two Faces of the Christian Coalition

Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:26:34 -0400

Defying predictions that he would fade from the political scene as a result of his showing at the 1992 Republican National Convention, Televangelist Pat Robertson has instead emerged as one of the country's most powerful political leaders. In the past three years, Robertson's Christian Coalition has grown from a small and sporadically successful organization into a political machine that regularly influences policy from local school boards to the halls of Congress. It has become the dominant organization in an increasingly significant political movement -- the Religious Right.