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Market converge over the next few days. First there is t earningss is the busiest week for Quarterly Results of the season. Then there is the Federal Reserve which begins the twoday policy meeting tomorrow with the decision on Interest Rates due wednesday. Trade talks between the u. S. And china are set to resume. And the nations labor market which has been fuelling the consumer comes into f the release of the monthly jobs report. But today investors were willing to wait and see what happens. Wi...

CORRECTION (17:50 EDT, Sept. 12): In the original entry, quotes attributed to PBS ombudsman Michael Getler should have been attributed to Jeff Bieber, vice president for news and public affairs at WETA, the Washington, D.C. affiliate of PBS. We regret the error and any confusion it may have caused.Where conservatives see "Islamist sympathizers" and "egregious conflicts of interest at work" officials with the public broadcasting system see "respected authorities" ply...

Is PBS still making money off a discredited documentary that they know is filled with untruths, misquotes, and lies? It would seem so. In 2003 PBS aired a show titled "Einstein's Wife" that attempted to prove that Albert Einstein's world changing theories of physics were a result of a hidden collaboration with his first wife, Mileva Maric. This documentary claimed that Maric’s work on the theory of relativity was lied about and hidden away all these years by Einstein, his b...

This is Part II of a discussion of the introduction of the principle not to use the term terrorism and its variants in describing terrorist attacks right after 9-11. The first part is here. Palestinians Celebrate

Closing the Gap

...public television’s flagship news program continues to feature sources drawn largely from a narrow range of elite white male experts.

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Officials

What lies ahead in the stand-off between the US-led alliance and a resurgent China is too early to tell.

A media chorus of excited critics has been relentless this week, denouncing President Joe Biden for the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and warning that his entire presidency is now "stained."