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Do politicians know anything at all about schools and education? Anything?

Diane Ravitch poses a dozen piercing questions on education and school policy. Some of them turn conventional thinking on its ear, and each could be a starting point for reporting…
August 28, 2012

At least 1,400 arrests for antiwar dissent, but who’s counting? Not the press.

The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newsworthiness. By its lack of coverage, isn’t the press…
August 27, 2012

What’s wrong with cutting and running?

Everything that opponents of a pullout say would happen if the U.S. left Iraq is happening already, says retired Gen. William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency…
August 24, 2012

Complete Audio List

A collection of all audio excerpts from the Winter 2009 issue on a single page, in the order they in which they appear in the magazine.
August 7, 2012

Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

Every year the Nieman Foundation awards a portfolio of prizes. The winners of three major awards were celebrated this spring.
July 10, 2012

Summer 2012: Class Notes

1942Thomas Sancton, a Southern journalist who wrote articles in the 1940s advocating for racial justice, died at a nursing home in New Orleans on April 6th. He was 97.Read his…
July 10, 2012

Be Careful Who You Quote

Some nonprofits that claim to supply expert opinions are set up by spin doctors to further corporate agendas.
July 10, 2012
Taylor Award for Fairness (Extended Interview)

Taylor Award for Fairness (Extended Interview)

When J. Andrew Curliss investigated a district attorney, she attacked his work and his paper. Photo by Lisa Abitbol.To say that the subject of reporter J. Andrew Curliss’s three-part series…
July 10, 2012

A New Age for Truth

‘Never has it been so easy to expose an error, check a fact, crowdsource and bring technology to bear in service of verification.’
July 6, 2012

Secrets and Lies

Investigating a famed Polish journalist
July 6, 2012