The American journalist I. F. Stone (1907-1989) published the iconoclastic political newsletter I. F. Stone's Weekly from 1953 to 1971. A critic of the Cold War and McCarthyism, his opposition to the ...
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Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the ...
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Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the ...
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These journalists are out of touch. They don't understand the seismic consequences of the Iraq war, which is slowly transforming our politics (beginning with the Congress). Journalists failed us in...
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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2007. There are 75 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 17, 1777, British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American...
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Justice Samuel Alito doubts the public is clamoring for Supreme Court sessions to be televised and predicts they would battle Congress for last place in the ratings.Alito said Friday that the same-...
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Today is Monday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2007. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 24, 1814, the War of 1812 officially ended as the ...
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In pre-computer times, when reporters smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey in public, the night city editor on the Chicago Daily News was Bill Mooney, a man who could type faster with one finger tha...
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Now that Charles Peters has finished with Five Days in Philadelphia, we should draft him to overhaul the American history textbooks inflicted upon the youth of the nation. Dense in both senses of t...
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Now that Charles Peters has finished with Five Days in Philadelphia, we should draft him to overhaul the American history textbooks inflicted upon the youth of the nation. Dense in both senses of t...
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