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Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.

NYTimes schools Post, Sun on Arabic School

The New York Times’s Andrea Elliot, who won a Pulitzer last year for a series profiling a Brooklyn mosque, turned in a heartbreaking article this morning detailing how a local educator was drummed out of her chance to be the principal of a new New York City public school that offers Arabic classes as a […]

Bilal Hussein to be freed. Really!

I’m ecstatic to be proven wrong. Bilal Hussein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Iraqi Associated Press photographer who was detained by U.S. forces in April 2006 will be set free tomorrow. Last week, after a prolonged detention and a series of opaque judicial proceedings, an Iraqi court dismissed the charges, citing what the AP then described as […]