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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

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Reaction Time: (Un?) Conditional Love

Comments (1) | Christianity, conversion therapy, destigmatize, illegal, josh alcorn, leelah alcorn, leelah's law, LGBT, love, mental health, Opinion, opinion, parenting, reaction time, Religion, social media, suicide, torture, transgender, transition, tumblr, un, unconditional love

Ariana Aboulafia
Columnist

If God does not make mistakes, perhaps we are the ones making mistakes each and every day.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Chinese Man Wins Landmark Case For Gay Rights

Comments (0) | China, china gay rights decision, chinese gay rights, electroshock therapy, gay conversion therapy, gay pride, gay rights, International, landmark decision, torture

(Xaume Olleros/Getty Images)

Ashley Yang
Associate News Editor

Gay conversion therapy doesn't work - and Chinese courts agree.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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The Terror Two Hours South

Comments (1) | autogenocide, beheadings, Bill Maher, cartels, child prostitution, child soldiers, citizen journalists, Columnists, columnists, crimes against humanity, Daily Mail, discourse, Genocide, global turning points, Gulf Cartel, human rights, Iguala, isis, islam, Jose Luis Abarca, Journalism, los Guerreros Unidos, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, Maria del Rosario Fuentes, Media, Mexico, Middle East, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, organ harvesting, rape, reynosa, Ricardo Cesar Nino Villarreal, Sam Harris, Slavery, torture, Twitter, United States, war, Zeta cartel

Steve Helmeci
Columnist

More Americans have died due to Mexican cartel violence than in the entirety of the Iraq War.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Government Has Until Dec. To Explain Withholding Of Torture Photos

Comments (0) | Afghanistan, detainees, Iraq, Judge Alvin Hellerstein, justice department, Nation and World, photographs, torture, torture photos

An Iraqi detainee being searched. (The U.S. Army/Flickr)

Belinda Cai
Web Producer

The Obama administration must explain never-before-seen photos of U.S. military torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Senate Report Concludes CIA Interrogation Program 'Misled' Public

Comments (8) | Central Intelligence Agency, cia, counterterrorism, Interrogation, National, Senate, Senate Intelligence Committee, terrorism, torture

Raishad Hardnett
Executive Producer

The report says CIA detainees were subject to "excruciating" interrogation methods for the sake of little to no significant information.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

'Breaking Bad' Finale 'Felina': 4 Predictions

Comments (39) | Albuquerque, blood, Breaking Bad, Breaking Bad Finale, Brock, cancer, cat, Cowboy, death, Drugs, El Paso, Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz, Elliott Schwartz, Entertainment News, Erwin Schrödinger, Feleena, Felina, Feline, finale, Flynn, Goodman, Granite State, Gretchen Schwartz, Grey Matter Technologies, Hank, Heisenberg, Holly, Iron, Jesse, Jesse Pinkman, Lithium, Lydia, M60, Marie, Marty Robbins, Meth, methamphetamine, Nazis, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pinkman, Ricin, Saul, Saul Goodman, Schrödinger, Schrödinger's Cat, season 5, season finale, Shakespeare, Skyler, Skyler White, Sodium, Spaghetti Western, tears, Todd, torture, Uncle Jack, Walt, Walter White

David Tobia
Executive Producer

What does the title tell us about how "Breaking Bad" ends?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Obama's Syria Remarks And The Line Between Rhetoric And Reality

Comments (25) | abu ghraib, Afghanistan, Bashar al-Assad, civilian death, Democratic Republic of Congo, guantanamo bay, human rights, human rights law, Iraq, mass atrocities, Middle East, Military, Obama, Opinion, Sudan, Syria, syria intervention, terrorism, torture, war, War on Terror, world

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Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

An intervention has little to do with protecting Syrian lives. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Karzai Orders U.S. Special Forces To Leave Afghan Province

Comments (2) | Afghanistan, hamid harzai, International, torture, u.s. special operations, wardak province

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (Creative Commons)

Danny Lee
Executive Producer

Order comes after accusations of harassment and torture in Wardak province.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Obama And The CIA Must Come Clean On Drones, Killings

Comments (3) | ACLU, Al Qaida, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, cia, coverup, drone, Drone Strikes, drones, enhanced interrogation, extraordinary rendition, george bush, intelligence, Middle East, Obama, Opinion, President Bush, President Obama, torture

(US Air Force, Wikimedia Commons)

Christopher Robinson
Contributor

The real issue here is transparency, of which there is very little.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

9/11 Mastermind Accuses U.S. Of Torture

Comments (0) | 9/11, Al Qaeda, cia, cuba, guantanamo bay, Mohammed, Nation and World, national security, torture, United States, US

Jerome Campbell
Executive Producer

Details from a pre-trial hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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