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The Best of TWI in 2008
TWI launched just a year ago. Since then, our staff has run over 4,400 posts and pieces and broken news that furthered some of the most important stories of the year. Check out the most viewed stories of 2008 and the TWI staff’s favorite reads.
Video: The Cold Face of Evictions
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In the third quarter of 2008, some 765,558 American properties received default notices or were in foreclosure. While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced last month they would temporarily halt foreclosures and evictions from Thanksgiving to Jan. 9, the moratorium is likely to affect only a small percentage of homeowners. [...]
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VIDEO: Torture Policy Architects Testify
White House officials who crafted the Bush administration’s torture policies, David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and John Yoo, a Berkeley Law School professor and formerly of the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legal Counsel, defended their positions before a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing Thursday. The American News Project captures key [...]
VIDEO: Torture at Gitmo Protest
The American News Project catches up with TWI reporter Spencer Ackerman at Amnesty International’s anti-torture protest on the National Mall where the human rights group displayed on exact replica of a Guantanamo Bay detention center cell.
Video: How Clean Is Clean Coal?
In a single year, a rate of fewer than one in 100,000 Americans contract a rare form of blood cancer. In Pennsylvania coal country, the rate is nearly five times higher. Many suspect “clean” coal is the cause. As the 2008 presidential candidates promote the potential of clean coal as an alternative fuel source, and [...]
