Sources: Sojourners, March 15, 2007 Title: “From Sex Workers to Restaurant Workers, the Global Slave Trade Is Growing” Author: David Batstone Foreign Policy, March/April 2008 Title: “A World Enslaved” Author: E. Benjamin Skinner Student Researcher: Brandon Leahy Faculty Evaluator: David McCuan, PhD Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any time [...]

Sources: Nuclear Information and Resource Service, May 14, 2007 Title: “Nuclear Waste in Landfills” Author: Diane D’Arrigo Environment News Service, May 14, 2007 Title: “US Allows Radioactive Materials in Ordinary Landfills” Author: Sunny Lewis Environment News Service, February 4, 2008 Title: “US Company Seeks Permit to Import Nuclear Waste” Author: Sunny Lewis Student Researchers: Derek [...]

Sources: Vanity Fair, October 2007 Title: “Billions over Baghdad” Authors: Donald Barlett and James Steele Rolling Stone, August 23, 2007 Title: “The Great American Swindle” Author: Matt Taibbi Student Researchers: Brian Gellman, Dan Bluthardt, and Bill Gibbons Faculty Evaluator: John Kramer, PhD Beginning in April 2003, one month after the invasion of Iraq, and continuing [...]

Source: Diatribune and Daily Kos, March, 30, 2007 Title: “Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From NCLB” Author: Mandevilla Researchers: Alan Scher and Sam Burchard Faculty Evaluator: Karen Grady, PhD The architect of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), President Bush’s first senior education advisor, Sandy Kress, has turned the program, which has consistently proven disastrous in the [...]

Sources: NACLA–Upside Down World, August 24, 2007 Title: “El Salvador: Water Inc. and the Criminalization of Protest” Author: Jason Wallach The Nation, December 31, 2007 Title: “GWOT: El Salvador” Author: Wes Enzinna Peacework, September 2007 Title: “Salvadoran Activists Targeted with US-Style Repression” Author: Chris Damon In These Times, November 13, 2007 Title: “El Salvador’s Patriot [...]

Sources: Salon, June 21, 2007 Title: “The CIA’s torture teachers” Author: Mark Benjamin Vanity Fair, July 17, 2007 Title: “Rorschach and Awe” Author: Katherine Eban Democracy Now!, August 20, 2007 Titles: “American Psychological Association Rejects Blanket Ban on Participation in Interrogation of US Detainees,” “APA Interrogation Task Force Member Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo Exposes Group’s [...]

Sources: Iraq Vets Against the War, March 13–16, 2008 Title: “Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations” War Comes Home, Pacifica Radio, March 14–16, 2008 Title: “Winter Soldier 2008 Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations” Co-hosts: Aaron Glantz, Aimee Allison, and Esther Manilla One World, March 19, 2008 Title: “US Soldiers ‘Testify’ About [...]

Sources: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse website, December 7, 2007 Title: “In FISA Speech, Whitehouse Sharply Criticizes Bush Administration’s Assertion of Executive Power” Author: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse The Guardian, December 26, 2007 Title: “The Rabbit Hole” Author: Marcy Wheeler Student Researchers: Dana Vaz and Bill Gibbons Faculty Evaluator: Noel Byrne, PhD On December 7, 2007, Senator Sheldon [...]

Sources: Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2007 Title: “Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States” Authors: Mary Bauer and Sarah Reynolds The Nation, June 25, 2007 Title: “Coming to America” Author: Felicia Mello Times of India, March 10, 2008 Title: “Trafficking racket: Indian workers file case against US employer” Author: Chidanand Rajghatta Student [...]

Sources: Indypendent, November 16, 2007 Title: “Bringing the War on Terrorism Home” Author: Jessica Lee In These Times, November 2007 Title: “Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” Author: Lindsay Beyerstein Truthout, November 29, 2007 Title: “The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007” Author: Matt Renner Student Researchers: Dan Bluthardt and Cedric Therene Faculty [...]