The American Way of Life Magazine

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~ Saturday, June 2 ~

think-progress:

On women’s issues, men are quoted overwhelmingly more often than women.

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~ Friday, May 18 ~

Shout-out to AWOL grads

Congrats to Kelcie and Alex! Not only did our Editor-in-Chiefs graduate, but neither are unemployed! Kelcie got a reporting job at the Carroll County Times and Alex will be TFAing it up in Mississippi.

Good luck guys!

~ Wednesday, May 16 ~

Newsweek: The House has passed the GOP's Violence Against Women Act

newsweek:

Just happened. So what bill is that? “House Democrats say the Republican-authored law would raise requirements to prove domestic violence and sexual assault, erase confidentiality protections for immigrant women and alert abusers when their victims seek help. They say it would eliminate a path…

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~ Tuesday, May 8 ~

newyorker:

Revisit Cynthia Zarin’s 2006 profile of Maurice Sendak: http://nyr.kr/IYFZBI. Also see “Max at Sea,” our excerpt from Dave Eggers’s “Where the Wild Things Are” novel: http://nyr.kr/K8HgZa

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thedailywhat:

RIP: Maurice Sendak, at 83: Maurice Sendak, the beloved author and illustrator of Where The Wild Things Are, has died after complications from a recent stroke. He was 83.

Sendak won nearly every major book award, including the Caldecott Medal,considered the Pulitzer Prize of children’s book illustration. He had lived with his partner, Eugene Glynn, for 50 years before Glynn’s death in 2007.

Watch an excerpt from the documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak here.

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~ Monday, May 7 ~

“ If a survivor of domestic violence uses a gun to warn an attacker, not kill him, and that survivor now faces a prison term of twenty years, then what purpose does Stand Your Ground serve?

— —Melissa Harris-Perry on the case of Marissa Alexander, a mother of three who fired a warning shot into her kitchen ceiling trying to keep her abusive husband away. No one was hurt, but she now faces up to twenty years in prison. (via thenationmagazine)

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~ Sunday, May 6 ~

What EVERYONE should know about the secretive group trying to swift boat Barack Obama

think-progress:

MORE FACTS AT THE LINK about the group’s attempt to do to Barack Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans did to Kerry’s 2004 campaign.

In four days, the first ad by Veterans For A Strong America garnered almost 1 million view on Youtube. [YouTube, 5/1/12]

The group’s sole employee and founder is coordinating with key Islamophobic figures on the far-right.[ThinkProgress,2/12/12;For The Common Defense; New York Times,3/4/05]

The group’s founder helped promote a documentary advocating war with Iran. [Flier; ThinkProgress, 11/3/11]

Veterans for A Strong American is fully endorsed by Karl Rove. The man known as “Bush’s Brain” tweeted his support of their first web ad. [Twitter,5/3/12]

The group’s founder — posing as a “journalist” — organized and participated in a taxpayer subsidized propaganda trip to Iraq in 2008. [Charleston Gazette, 8/28/08]

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Are you as curious as this cat?

AWOL is on the lookout for in-depth & investigative reporters for next school year.

We’re also looking for bloggers. Next year we’ll be making some changes, and bloggers will each have their own cleverly-name blog where they can be catty and write about issues they care about.

Interested? Message us with your contact info.

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~ Friday, April 27 ~

Gotta catch ‘em all.

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~ Thursday, April 26 ~

New project by the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Project at AU.

Check it out: http://www.investigatingpower.org/

Shout-out to AWOL grads

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