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The British newspaper the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that the BBC has adopted new editorial guidelines that expressly call for its reporters to be

The UpTake are in New York City providing a livestream of the Wall Street occupation. The media outlet is accepting donations to support its coverage here . Minnesotans are planning a solidarity occupation in downtown Minneapolis Friday, Nov. 7.

In and of itself, it’s not really surprising that Dick Cheney should defend the torture and indefinite detention -- which, the founding fathers understood, was

The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments demands the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraqi towns and cities by July

This is from a U.S. District court filing from Dick Cheney’s office: ’’The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or

The 47-nation/three international-governance-body Washington Nuclear Security Summit has concluded. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) just yawns: The summit’s purported

Whether or not the Obama administration’s spending freeze is a hatchet or a scalpel -- see Rachel Maddow’s grilling of vice-presidential economist Jared

It’s gotten difficult to tell apart all of the Hari Seldon-ish organizations devoted to engineering a Republican/conservative comeback. Here’s a bluffer’s

Just released from the White House: I welcome President Karzai’s statement today accepting the Independent Electoral Commission’s certification of the

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) appears to have survived her tough primary runoff tonight against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) in Arkansas’ Senate race. The Associated

Yesterday I mentioned, randomly, how attacking Democratic presidential candidates on guns is usually a ploy. The Feds won’t take away people’s guns, no

You know it’s not looking good for Sen. John McCain when the head of the University of Florida’s more than 1,000-strong Gators for McCain announced his

The New York Times dug through some new financial records to discover that Wall Street has been nearly as good to Larry Summers as Larry Summers is now being to

TWI’s Laura McGann, our temporary Anchorage bureau chief, just posted an enlightening piece about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Though the GOP vice-presidential

Something else that’s interesting in Joe Klein’s interview with Sen. Barack Obama. Yesterday we saw John McCain severely misrepresent what the impending

Concessions to moderates would make it difficult for urban clinics to obtain federal money.

In this deteriorating economy, wealthy people who used to spend their money freely on exotic vacations and $8,000 Birkin bags supposedly are cutting down their