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The Spying Gamenew

New York cops and civil libertarians have resumed their fight over political surveillance.
The Village Voice  |  Jarrett Murphy  |  12-16-2005  |  Politics

Will Oscar Have the Balls for Munich?new

There will be no press junket, no premiere and, most importantly, no blowout Oscar marketing campaign for Steven Spielberg's certain-to-be-controversial movie, Munich.
L.A. Weekly  |  Nikki Finke  |  12-05-2005  |  Movies

Only Cowards Resign First, Speak Out Secondnew

Health and Human Services chief Tommy Thompson leaves the Bush White House having overseen the most kooky, dangerous sex education the government has ever promoted.
New York Press  |  Michelangelo Signorile  |  12-09-2004  |  Commentary

Clueless in D.C.new

"George doesn't have a clue what it's like to try to sleep like my son does -- if he even sleeps -- to the sounds of bombs all night," writes the mayor of Darby Borough, Pa.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Paula M. Brown  |  10-26-2004  |  Commentary

High-Tech Military Gigs Are All the Rage Againnew

Back in the Reagan era, the tens of thousands of engineers who got sucked into corporations with big military contracts called it "the defense industry," but today's police-state teenyboppers are calling it "the security industry."
Metro Silicon Valley  |  Annalee Newitz  |  08-07-2004  |  Commentary

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