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Haitians moving to the countryside; The students are alright; Football on the Great White Way; What do the balls mean?!; Business school doesn't want public funds; Will business tax breaks lift the ec

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We talk with Gary Rivlin, author of "Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business." Rivlin is a former reporter for the New York Times, Industry Standard and

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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission will vote Wednesday on funding for an elevated rail extension from the Coliseum BART station to the Oakland Airport. Some transit advocates say the price tag

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If you felt a sense of déjà vu when reading about the latest round of Israeli/Palestinian peace talks this week, you were not alone. The situation seems intractable but the reporting too often follo

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Throughout the war in Iraq foreign journalists have relied heavily on fixers, the local feet on the ground who translate, find sources and help provide safety. Though many have since left the country,

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August was the 175th anniversary of the New York Sun’s Great Moon Hoax, when Richard Adams Locke created a sensation by writing a series of satirical articles, taken seriously by the public, about l

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Earlier this week, Washington Post sports writer Mike Wise sent a deliberately false tweet about Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to prove to his audience that journalists will happi

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From the Million Man March to the Obama Inauguration to Glenn Beck’s recent “Restoring Honor” rally, estimating the size of a crowd is both scientifically difficult and politically fraught. ASU

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After seven years, a trillion dollars, tens of thousands of civilian deaths, nearly 35,000 US injured and 4,500 US dead, President Obama announced this week that the combat mission in Iraq is over. Hi

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On today's show, a rousing discussion of scandal, sex, and giving cover to wrongdoers. And that's just Oracle hiring Mark Hurd. In other tech news, Craigslist gets rid of its adult services section

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