Think Glenn Beck | So Rupert, would you say Fox News is fair and balanced? ASK THIS Marvin Kalb will be interviewing Rupert Murdoch on April 6th. We've got a few questions we'd like Marvin to ask. Maybe you've got some, too?

Truth is still the first casualty of war | Battlefields may change but propaganda remains constant ASK THIS On the one hand, in wartime the news media serve the government by passing along its message; on the other hand, the media need to tell people what’s really going on and what wars are about. Author Susan Brewer focuses on that dual role, and offers a line of questioning to help cut through the packaging.

‘A feigned democracy breeds cynicism’ | Will the states intervene to get our democracy back?
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Congress needs to turn to public financing to restore its integrity and it’s not likely to do that, writes Lawrence Lessig in the Nation. But something needs to be done, he writes, and the answer may lie in the long, difficult workings of a constitutional convention.

'How did things go so bad so fast?' | Is it time yet for budget reconciliation? ASK THIS With the Senate in gridlock will the Democrats turn to a process that requires only a simple majority for passage, not a supermajority? If not, why not? And if they do, is there a June 15 deadline?

Kiss your wall jack goodbye? | Is basic American telephone service in a death spiral?
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Bruce Kushnick questions whether AT&T and Verizon are trying to kill off the “plain old telephone service” that millions of Americans rely on. In a recent FCC filing cited by Kushnick, AT&T stated that landline utilities are from a bygone era, and asked to be relieved of its obligations to service them.

George Wilson's column | Why rush the F-35 into production?
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Ask Defense Secretary Gates: What is the threat that justifies spending $298.8 billion on 2,456 F-35s, or $122 million each, counting research and development costs?

Breathless press corps | Press hits the dumb button on body scanner reporting
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Privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg writes that breathless, uninformed media coverage has saved the vendors of digital strip-search devices hundreds of thousands of lobbying and public-relations dollars that might otherwise have to be spent to foist these machines on the American public. Where is the reporting on what these scanners will and won't see?

Calling Isaac Asimov | War of the robots -- all too real questions we have to ask
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Defense expert and author P. W. Singer writes that robotics is a game-changer on the battlefield and elsewhere -- but there's been remarkably little public discussion of what the rules should be, or how this will affect our lives.

War-making machine | Ten questions about the U.S.'s intensifying war efforts in the year to come
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Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse wonder what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010. Answers to their questions might offer reasonable hints about how much U.S. war efforts are likely to intensify in the Greater Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia, in the year to come.

| Regarding that government takeover of health care…
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Morton Mintz has a few questions for the Tea Party Patriots as they 'storm' Senate offices. His first one: Does it bother you that the U.S. is way ahead of other nations in the share that insurers get of health care expenditures?

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