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  • Welcome to no-choice America

    PBS's "Frontline" special "The Last Abortion Clinic" shows us why the dark ages of illegal abortions and unwanted children are already here.
    By Heather Havrilesky November 8, 2005

  • This is going to hurt you more than it's going to hurt me

    The House Republicans' plan for Katrina: Cut funding for the Third World, energy conservation and contraception. Punish PBS fans, art lovers and graduate students.
    By Tim Grieve September 22, 2005

  • Better than any telethon

    Supporters of NPR and PBS score a victory against conservative Republicans aiming to pare down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
    By Aaron Kinney June 23, 2005

  • Channeling the right

    There's mounting evidence that the man in charge of public broadcasting is on a conservative crusade.
    By Paul McLeary June 23, 2005

  • A pink slip for Ken Tomlinson?

    Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer call on Bush to fire the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
    By Tim Grieve June 21, 2005

  • The GOP war on PBS and NPR

    Republicans on a House subcommittee move to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
    By Eric Boehlert June 10, 2005

  • "Fair and balanced" -- the McCarthy way

    CPB head Kenneth Tomlinson, who is leading a jihad against "liberal bias" in public broadcasting, and one of his two new ombudsmen both worked for the late Fulton Lewis, a reactionary radio personality associated with Sen. Joe McCarthy.
    By Eric Boehlert May 26, 2005

  • Making PBS as "fair and balanced" as Fox

    Critics blast the CPB's unprecedented move to hire competing, "Crossfire"-style ombudsmen, saying the move is intended to make public broadcasting toe a right-wing line.
    By Eric Boehlert May 17, 2005

  • GOP now goes after NPR

    Bad news from the Middle East? Maybe more music programming would be nice.
    By Eric Boehlert May 16, 2005

  • Pushing PBS to the right

    Republicans have launched a heavy-handed campaign to correct public broadcasting's "liberal slant." There's just one problem: Most Americans don't think it has one.
    By Eric Boehlert May 10, 2005

  • The tightening grip on PBS

    A staff shakeup is taking the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the direction of "conservative appeasement," says one watchdog.
    By Page Rockwell April 13, 2005

  • More gay cartoon characters revealed!

    Crazed right-wing moralists, take note: Before SpongeBob, there was Snagglepuss ... and Huckleberry Hound ... and even Popeye.
    By Liz Larocca February 5, 2005

  • Paralyzed Broadcasting System

    When Bush's education secretary objected to a lesbian couple in a children's cartoon, PBS instantly caved in. Is the network becoming the White House's lap dog?
    By Eric Boehlert February 4, 2005

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    NHL to fans: Don't worry! We might save the season. Fans: Yawn. Plus: Ken Burns takes the fun out of Jack Johnson.
    January 19, 2005

  • Other people's stuff

    With the new PBS series "Second Hand Stories" and the rise of Found magazine, garage-sale and Dumpster-diver culture finds its art form.
    By Su Ciampa October 15, 2003

  • Earth to Bill Gates: Thank you

    Yes, Microsoft is a bullying monopoly. But the software king may go down in history as the single individual who did the most to help the world's neediest people.
    By Andrew Leonard May 9, 2003

  • Upstairs, downstairs, in the bedroom

    The PBS reality series "Manor House" re-creates the Edwardian era's sadomasochistic social hierarchy -- but there's still plenty of time for petty bickering and heavy petting.
    By Heather Havrilesky April 28, 2003

  • The Salon Interview: Bill Moyers

    The conscience of American journalism speaks his mind about Bush, LBJ, Iraq, Vietnam, the triumph of America's global power and the withering of its democracy.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 7, 2003

  • "Sesame Street" cred

    After 33 years, Snuffleupagus isn't imaginary and Elmo gets too much airtime, but the best kids' show ever still educates with honesty, humor and loads of charm.
    By Heather Havrilesky April 7, 2003

  • Fact and fiction at the Wall Street Journal

    Liberal pundit Roger Wilkins gets slammed for a quote deemed insensitive to U.S. troops. Just one problem: Wilkins never spoke those words.
    By Eric Boehlert April 1, 2003

  • Ordinary people

    With "Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family," PBS closes the circle on the legendary 1973 series that mesmerized the nation and prefigured reality TV.
    By Carina Chocano January 6, 2003

  • Arab-Americans, one year later

    A new PBS documentary delicately explores the lives of "100 percent American, 100 percent Arab" citizens, who find themselves permanent outsiders in a season of war.
    By Carina Chocano September 4, 2002

  • Gwen Ifill

    The host of PBS's "Washington Week in Review" and correspondent for "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" is a fan of civil conversation, good writing and the Washington Mystics.
    By Robert Margolis December 18, 2000

  • PBS peep show

    A family gives up modern comforts to live before the camera, Victorian style, in the British reality series "The 1900 House."
    By Joyce Millman June 19, 2000

  • Imagination unleashed in all its perverse glory

    The Web: Let the Puritans figure out how to jam their mealy corks into the dike!
    By Camille Paglia April 5, 2000
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