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The top 10 under-covered news stories of the year.
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The top 10 under-covered news stories of the year.

  • Paul Rosenberg Terelle Jerricks
  • Oct 27, 2016

Throughout its 40-year history, Project Censored has covered a lot of ground that the corporate mainstream media has not. Begun by Carl Jensen…

Forum | Opinion

We can try to ignore him, but Donald Trump just won’t go away.

  • A.B. Stoddard
  • Aug 13, 2015

The Donald’s Campaign Cyclone is the new roller coaster of summer 2015 – and though they never bought tickets, the other Republican presidenti…

Local Spin | Opinion

Only a few degrees of separate a racist murderer and the GOP.

  • Michelle Goldberg
  • Jun 25, 2015

News that Earl Holt, president of the white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, has donated $65,000 to Republicans, including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum, has ricocheted around the media since The Guardian broke the story. No wonder…

Forum | Opinion

If you want to know where the GOP stands on workers, check how they deal with the minimum wage issue.

  • John Stoehr
  • May 14, 2015

Too bad George W. Bush is persona non grata among congressional Republicans. If he were less unpopular, they might find in the waning years of…

Forum | Opinion

Debate over religious freedom restoration shows the GOP needs restoration of its own.

  • A.B. Stoddard
  • May 7, 2015

The GOP presidential field had Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s back. Then came the backlash, and then the back down. Pence defended, but then retrea…

Local Spin | Opinion

More than a year before the primary, the District 4 race has started.

  • Mary Duan
  • Apr 16, 2015

It’s early for this. It’s so early for this. The election isn’t until 2016 and the shenanigans have already started.

What to expect as California slogs toward likely cannabis legalization in 2016.
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What to expect as California slogs toward likely cannabis legalization in 2016.

  • Mary Duan
  • Mar 19, 2015

10. Legalization is coming. Some version of cannabis legalization will appear on the November 2016 ballot, a monster voting year due to the pr…

Forum | Opinion

Republicans and Democrats are working together – and not for war – on reform.

  • Zoë Carpenter
  • Feb 26, 2015

Could this be the year lawmakers begin to dismantle the system of mass incarceration they have been building for decades? It seems conceivable…

Forum | Opinion

Vaccine deniers span all sides of the political fringe, to the peril of everyone else.

  • Michelle Goldberg
  • Feb 12, 2015

It’s grotesque, but not surprising, that in the midst of the current measles outbreak, some leading Republicans are humoring vaccine denialist…

Poll reveals Obama popularity dropping among college students; privacy fears rank high.
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Poll reveals Obama popularity dropping among college students; privacy fears rank high.

  • David Schmalz
  • May 24, 2014

The college students of 2014 are cooling on Obama, and their satisfaction with the country’s current political leadership is at a near record …

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