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College: A Lesson in Inequality
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
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May 20, 2013 Rather than bridge economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google's new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would
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Googleland: Coming Soon to a Country Near You
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
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On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that have found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication
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This Is Water: Fishy Advice From David Foster Wallace
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
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May 15, 2013 A commencement speech given in 2005 by the late American author David Foster Wallace, who is hugely influential among literary members of the generations lumped into the millennial category, reaches for a healing vision of a common
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What's Going on With Obama and Drug Policy?
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
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Check your town's listings or ask your public radio station to carry Truthdig Radio. With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don't execute terrorists, and baby books
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Shoot Your Ex-Girlfriend, Courtesy of the NRA
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
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May 10, 2013 Slut shaped targets that bleed when shot were sold at the gun lobby's convention; Hispanic high school students went on to college at a higher rate than white ones last fall; meanwhile, the U.S...On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you
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Jason Collins' Place in History
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
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Check your town's listings or ask your public radio station to carry Truthdig Radio. The first male athlete in one of the big American sports to come out of the closet won't be the last. Also: race and terrorism, and the companies that do (and don't)
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Misogynist Much? Politico Attacks Times Editor Jill Abramson
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 23 days ago
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Apr 29, 2013 Politico's piece on New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson implied she was a bitchy woman character; fossil fuels may never be depleted and this could be the best and worst thing to happen; meanwhile, violence is less rampant on
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Fact: The United States Tortured People
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 23 days ago
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Check your town's listings or ask your public radio station to carry Truthdig Radio. A bipartisan panel tries to end the debate on torture so we don't do it again, U.S. terrorism, why Congress is free to ignore demand for gun control and the best
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Terrorists Are Not Madmen
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Check your town's listings or ask your public radio station to carry Truthdig Radio. Terrorism expert Audrey Kurth Cronin says terrorists are surprisingly logical. Also: Islamophobia in the U.S.A., Bradley Manning's secret trial, and Congress wants
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Sir Ian McKellen Speaks Ill of the Dead
Fargo :: ND :: USA | 1 month ago
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Apr 19, 2013 The British actor says what the obituaries are leaving out about Margaret Thatcherher administration was nasty, especially when it came to homosexuality; gruesome images, like those taken during the Boston Marathon attacks, can teach us
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