NewsBusiness School Administrators Censor Criticism of Sodexo At noon on February 17, Jordan Ash, a researcher for the Service Employees International Union, along with Josh Downey, a member of SEIU Local 105, had just finished setting up their exhibit booth at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver… Lucy KomisarApril 21, 2011
NewsPolitics ThinkProgress: Progressive Muckrakers, Targeted by the Chamber Those who’ve speculated that the Internet heralds the end of investigative journalism may not have been following the recent work of ThinkProgress.org… Jed BickmanFebruary 23, 2011
NewsJustice, World Bauer, Fattal Trial Begins in Tehran The trial for Josh Fattal and Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer, imprisoned in Iran for more than a year and a half, began yesterday in Tehran…. Esther KaplanFebruary 7, 2011
NewsWorld Casting the First Stone Almost four months ago, a Kampala, Uganda-based tabloid called Rolling Stone (no relation to the American magazine) published 100 photographs of gay Ugandans, along with where to find them, and warned against “recruitment.” The headline said “Hang Them.” Molly O'TooleJanuary 31, 2011
NewsHealth Are Foster Kids Overmedicated? Tonight on PBS Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent — and children in foster care are among the most likely to be medicated… Mar CabraJanuary 7, 2011
NewsJustice Bradley Manning’s “cruel and inhumane” imprisonment After spending nine days in solitary confinement in a jail in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released on bail. Meanwhile, Bradley Manning, the whistleblower behind WikiLeaks, sits in solitary confinement for the seventh month. Kate MurphyDecember 16, 2010
NewsBusiness, Environment Fiji Water Relents Fiji Water announced today that it will re-open its factory at 8 a.m. Wednesday, less than 48 hours after brusquely dismissing its Fijian workforce… Anna LenzerNovember 30, 2010
NewsBusiness, Environment Fiji Water Threatens to Shut Down Operations Fiji Water announced today that it will close its operations in Fiji in response to a water extraction tax hike proposed by the Fijian government… Anna LenzerNovember 29, 2010
NewsJustice, World Iranian Official Questions Whether US Hikers Are Spies In an interview with NBC’s Ann Curry this week, a top Iranian human rights official cast doubt on the charge that Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, the two Americans detained in Iran, are spies… Esther KaplanNovember 21, 2010
NewsWorld Wikileaks Confirms: US Hikers, Detained by Iran, Were Arrested in Iraq Wikileaks today made public a classified American military report that confirms that the American hikers detained by Iran were arrested in Iraq Esther KaplanOctober 22, 2010