Where’s the Recovery? Hopes for Economic Rebound Fade
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 31st, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Where’s the Recovery? Hopes for Economic Rebound Fade
Jeff Cox, CNBC
Murdering the Messenger in Russia
Steve Weinberg, In These Times
On Oct. 8, 2006, thousands demonstrated outside the Russian Embassy in Helsinki to protest Anna Politkovskaya's assassination.(Photo by: Marja Airio/AFP/Getty Images)The title of Anna Politkovskaya's new posthumous anthology, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches (Melville House, April), poses a provocative question. The answer is probably no. But freedom of speech and freedom from corruption might be worth dying for, and sometimes only journalists can make those freedoms happen.Politkovskaya, who worked as an investigative reporter for the independent Moscow newspaper…
Palin Revs Up at Rolling Thunder
Rachel Weiner, Washington Post
Message to College Grads: It’s Not About You
David Brooks, NY Times
Over the past few weeks, America’s colleges have sent another class of graduates off into the world. These graduates possess something of inestimable value. Nearly every sensible middle-aged person would give away all their money to be able to go back to age 22 and begin adulthood anew. David Brooks The intellectual, cultural and scientific findings that land on the columnist's desk nearly every day.David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns. But, especially this year, one is conscious of the many ways in which this year’s…