As the Bush Administration proposes to further relax the rules restricting concentration of media ownership, it seems fair to look at the current performance of the conglomerates that increasingly decide what Americans should know.
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Valuing Children
Can we really put a dollar value on the psychological well-being of children? The State of Indiana evidently thinks so, if the reported reaction to a recent decision in a lawsuit brought by the ICLU is any indication.
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The Political Usefulness of Religion
In the (turbulent) wake of the Ninth Circuit Pledge of Allegiance ruling, all I could think of was the study conducted several years ago by the Constitution Center, which concluded that Americans revered the Constitution, but had no idea what it meant.
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Parting Words
Several months ago, I used this column to list, in a rather flippant fashion, the things about today?s GOP that repel me. But a change of this magnitude really deserves a more serious explanation. Why, after 35 years of active participation in the Republican party, have I formalized this change? Why don?t I just do what so many of my friends do?retain my ?official? party affiliation, but vote mostly Democrat? What pushed me over the edge?
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Levelling the Playing Field
In legal circles these days, there is much talk about tensions between the Establishment and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment.
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