Reparative journalism

Source: Columbia Journalism Review

It’s not often that a journalist convinces a prominent scientist to recant a controversial study that he has tenaciously defended for 11 years, but that’s just what Gabriel Arana did last month. While working on a ...
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Catholics won’t go quietly

Source: Miami Herald

In a blowout presidential election, a few large issues dominate. In a tight election, a range of smaller concerns — important to strategic constituencies in battleground states — can end up being crucial. Preside ...
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Playing outside the box

Source: Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune

Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian company that tries to stretch the traditional definition of theater. Widely known in Europe and beyond, the ensemble — whose name translates roughly as “Feel Estate” — now is being discovered by Chica ...
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Source: TheNewsTribune.com

European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists. FILE - In this Monday, June 5, 2000 file photo Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at ...
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Source: Mail.com

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Source: Vancouver Sun

The U.S. government's long-running review of a Washington-based tribe's contentious bid to hunt grey whales off the Pacific Coast has been halted after a team of Canadian scientists discovered that a genetica ...
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Source: The Daily Beast

For a long time, the case for free markets was generally easy to make because capitalism was a powerful counter-example to communism. No one ever tried to climb the Berlin Wall to escape into East Berlin. That argument has been definitively settled but ...
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Source: WKSU

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Source: Natural Resources Defenses Council

WASHINGTON (May 23, 2012) -- Three Natural Resources Defense Council experts are scheduled to testify Thursday at a public hearing here convened by the Environmental Protection Agency on its proposed rule to limit to industrial carbon ...
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