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Tue, 25 Mar 2008
Immigration's Rise
New proposals, rhetoric, and enforcement revive a thorny issue
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Last may, a CBS/New York Times poll found that 69 percent of Americans want to see the country’s illegal immigrants prosecuted and deported. But, the next month, NBC and The Wall Street Journal released a poll suggesting that, in their heart of hearts, 85 percent of Americans recognize that summarily removing 10 or 20 million people isn’t realistic.
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Wed, 5 Mar 2008
Recovering Reality: Errol Morris on Abu Ghraib
A Q&A with the filmmaker in print and video
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Errol Morris is widely considered to be one of the best American filmmakers, a reputation that is especially impressive considering that he works in the ghettoized genre of the documentary. The Fog of War (2003) won him an Oscar, and The Thin Blue Line (1988) accomplished an even more notable feat: it got an innocent man off death row. Recently,... Read More
Thu, 31 Jan 2008
Keeping Poverty on the Page
Covering an old problem in new ways
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Poverty should be in reporters’ crosshairs this coming year, as it will be a central issue in the presidential campaign, at least for certain candidates. John Edwards visited a street in South Carolina that still has outhouses. Barack Obama spoke in Clarendon County in the same state, where one of the first lawsuits that led to Brown v. Board... Read More
Tue, 27 Nov 2007
The New Health-Care Debate
1992 echoes loudly, but today's story isn't just back to the future
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A 2005 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that twice as many people rely on the media for information about health care as rely on doctors or friends or family combined. In 2007, with health care a major issue in the presidential campaign, people will lean on the press even more. Covering the complexities of the health-care debate... Read More
Thu, 30 Aug 2007
Chauncey Bailey: An Interview
Before his death, the murdered journalist spoke of the significance of community TV
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Slain journalist Chauncey Bailey was a crusading reporter who lost his life for working on a story that would have exposed the shady business and criminal practices at Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, California. Gunned down in the streets in broad daylight, by a killer who was not much older than his own thirteen-year-old son, Bailey... Read More
Thu, 16 Aug 2007
Room to Roam
Rebecca Solnit’s peripatetic education
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Just what kind of a writer is Rebecca Solnit? It’s not an easy question to answer, given the effortless way she crosses the borders of disciplines and genres. Her irrepressible curiosity has led her to investigate and reflect on a diverse range of subjects: landscapes both rural and urban, politics, the environment, indigenous people, technology, gender, art, and photography.... Read More
Thu, 1 Mar 2007
Beyond the Cartoon Controversy: Q & A with Flemming Rose
Fifteen months after he enraged the Muslim world, Danish editor Flemming Rose's conscience is clear.
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It’s been fifteen months since the publication by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten of a series of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad, and the resulting furor in the Muslim world over what was considered a blasphemous violation of a central tenet of Sunni Islam—the prohibition of visual representations of the prophet. Though the riots have stopped and the flames... Read More
