Overview
| Media | Online |
| Audience | Large audience (500K-1M) (English) |
| Political Viewpoint | Neutral viewpoint |
| Owners | Nonprofit Organization |
| Story Formats | Special Report (13), News Report (11), News Analysis (4), Opinion (4) |
| Story Authors | Mike Lillis (6), Suemedha Sood (5), Spencer Ackerman (4), Matthew Blake (3), John Dougherty (2), Cass R Sunstein (2), Matthew Delong (1), Laura Mcgann (1), Davin Hutchins (1), Sherry Bebitch Jeffe (1), Ari Melber (1), Douglas Frantz (1), Sridhar Pappu (1), Arthur Allen (1), James Risen (1)... |
| Story Topics | John Mc Cain (9), Presidential Election 2008 (9), Bush Administration (9), U.S. Congress (7), Environment (6), Energy (5), Money And Politics (4), Foreign Policy (4), U.S. Economy (3), U.S. Supreme Court (3), Finance (2), War In Iraq (2), Barack Obama (2), Cancer (2), Afghanistan (2)... |
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Editorial
| Edited By | Kaizar Campwala |
| Last Edit | Apr 17, 2008 - 3:32 PM PDT |
| Source Editorial Priority | Medium |
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Shop Till We Drop — or Save?
Washington Independent - by Mike Lillis - Oct. 18, 2008 (Special Report)
For the first time in 17 years, retail sales have dropped for three months straight. Both for households and individuals, the trend might be good news: Many economists and ...
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Debate Highlights Security and 'Understanding'
Washington Independent - by Ari Melber - Sep. 27, 2008 (Opinion)
The mood here at the debate site -- admittedly irrelevant compared to the opinions of the TV audience at home -- was measured, even bored, throughout much of the evening. ...
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Karzai's Popularity Slips in Afghanistan
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Sep. 26, 2008 (Special Report)
... for the first time in Karzai's meteoric ascent -- and ahead of national elections scheduled for next year -- Afghans are beginning to express disillusionment with the ...
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McCain's Court: Change We Don't Need
Washington Independent - by Cass R. Sunstein - Sep. 13, 2008 (News Report)
If McCain is elected, change would clearly be coming to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in constitutional law, the Republican presidential nominee is anything but conservative. ...
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Nominees Ignore Credit Crunch
Washington Independent - by Mary Kane - Sep. 10, 2008 (News Analysis)
based on the contest so far, don't look for either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain to take on the biggest, most troublesome economic problem facing many American ...
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Taliban, Al Qaeda Unchecked in Pakistan
Washington Independent - by Douglas Frantz - Aug. 14, 2008 (Special Report)
Al Qaeda and the Taliban are executing suspected U.S. informants in Pakistan in a campaign to terrorize potential spies and reinforce the authority of the militant ...
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Judicial Partisanship Awards
Washington Independent - by Cass R. Sunstein - Aug. 7, 2008 (News Analysis)
we investigated which members of the supreme court are the most partisan--in that they are more likely to vote in favor of conservative agency decisions than liberal ...
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McCain Bets on Off Shore Drilling
Washington Independent - by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe - Aug. 1, 2008 (News Analysis)
Yet none of these numbers tell the entire story. They cannot gauge the intensity of public opinion. In the end, offshore oil drilling is an issue not unlike gun control. The ...
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AIPAC vs J Street & Darcy Burner
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Jun. 30, 2008 (Opinion)
Earlier this month, J Street endorsed a Washington Democrat running for Congress named Darcy Burner. Burner is the driving force behind something called the Responsible Plan, ...
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How Clean Is Clean Coal? - American News Project
Washington Independent - by Davin Hutchins - Jun. 26, 2008 (Special Report)
(VIDEO and comments) In a single year, less than one in 100,000 Americans contract a rare form of blood cancer. In Pennsylvania coal country, the rate is nearly five times ...
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Collateral Damage
Washington Independent - by Mike Lillis - Oct. 13, 2008 (Special Report)
An impasse on health care would come at a terrible time for the nation’s economy. Policy experts have long warned that health-care spending poses the single greatest threat ...
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No Friend of Solar Power
Washington Independent - by John Dougherty - Oct. 12, 2008 (News Analysis)
Michael Neary, president of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association, a non-profit trade association, said McCain frequently says he supports renewable energy ...
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The Reform Candidate?
Washington Independent - by Laura McGann - Sep. 2, 2008 (Special Report)
Early in her tenure as mayor, the city council threatened to recall her over accusations that she fired the city's police chief, Irl Stambaugh, and the library director, Mary ...
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Arizona's Go-To Senator
Washington Independent - by John Dougherty - Aug. 19, 2008 (Special Report)
for complicated issues that require a proven ability to reach political consensus, patience and attention to detail, Arizona's leaders often seek out the state's junior ...
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Threat of Law: Strategy of 2008?
Washington Independent - by Mike Lillis - Aug. 16, 2008 (Special Report)
Though only days old, a liberal non-profit group aiming to hinder Republican fund-raising this election cycle has already provoked a heated debate among legal scholars and ...
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Torture Memo Shields Interrogators
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - Jul. 24, 2008 (News Report)
"It's very easy to make a case for a serious criminal investigation," Jaffer said. "There is copious evidence at this point that senior officials authorized torture, and as a ...
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Mukasey Claims Executive Privilege
Washington Independent - by Matthew Blake - Jul. 16, 2008 (News Report)
Attorney General Michael Mukasey pre-empted a contempt of Congress vote by the House oversight committee this morning by claiming executive privilege. Henry A. Waxman's House ...
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FISA Vote Tied to Telecom Donations
Washington Independent - by Mike Lillis - Jun. 25, 2008 (News Report)
When scores of House Democrats joined Republicans last week to reauthorize a controversial White House spying program, many critics attributed that support to election-year ...
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'Like A Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone'
Washington Independent - by Spencer Ackerman - May. 24, 2008 (Opinion)
The more successful we are against Al Qaeda, the more we open the door for Shia extremists. We have to watch... to [see that we don't] create conditions for Shia [extremists] ...
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Legal Theory Seeks to Curtail Tort Cases
Washington Independent - by Matthew Blake - May. 20, 2008 (Special Report)
Troy left the FDA in 2004, but the U.S. Supreme Court subscribed to his logic earlier this year in a ruling that preempted lawsuits against makers of medical device. It could ...