Election 2008: The Secret Money Project
NPR.ORG   |   SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Who's paying to influence voters in your state? Independent groups are pouring millions of dollars into election ad campaigns nationwide. A ...
Charity Floods Swing States With Anti-Islam DVD
BY PETER OVERBY, SHAHIEN NASIRIPOUR, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: MORNING EDITION   |   SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
An obscure nonprofit has flooded campaign battleground states with an inflammatory DVD on radical Islam. Critics say the charity is trying t ...
Palin Casts Herself As Reformist, Outsider
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: MORNING EDITION   |   SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and running mate John McCain have trumpeted her opposition to earmarks like the infamous “bridge to nowhere,” bu ...
Strange Bedfellows Behind Anti-Obama "Turban" Ad
BY WILL EVANS   |   NPR.ORG   |   AUGUST 27, 2008
It was the first truly inflammatory anti-Obama ad to air on television, produced by the mysterious Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric ...
New Ads Rip Obama, But Democrats Fight Back
BY PETER OVERBY   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   AUGUST 27, 2008
It could be the Swift Boat ad of 2008. A conservative group pops out of nowhere with a hard-hitting TV ad against Obama. A billionaire foots ...
Union Operative Advocates and Gains Power
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   AUGUST 6, 2008
The Service Employees International Union, besides representing 2 million workers, is one of the most active and powerful political organiza ...
Independent Groups Step Up On-Air Ads
BY DANIELLA DE FRANCO, PETER OVERBY   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   JULY 18, 2008
Election season is heating up, as independent groups from across the political spectrum launch new ad campaigns targeting candidates for pre ...
Liberal, Conservative Groups Vie for Vets' Interests
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: WEEKEND EDITION   |   JULY 5, 2008
Two politically opposed veterans' advocacy groups—Vets for Freedom and Vote Vets—are battling for voters. NPR and CIR look beyond the po ...
Nonprofits Look for New Ways to Shape Campaign
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: MORNING EDITION   |   JUNE 25, 2008
CIR and NPR report on how nonprofits are quietly mobilizing to influence the 2008 elections. One network of liberal activist groups, started ...
Secret video raises questions about journalist Chauncey Bailey's killing
CIR SPECIAL REPORT   |   JUNE 18, 2008
A secretly recorded police video captures Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and two associates discussing journalist Chauncey Bai ...
A Day in the Life of Independent Political Ads
BY PETER OVERBY   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   JUNE 11, 2008
Now that the presidential primaries are finished, independent political groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads to in ...
Troubles Loom for '527' Ad Efforts
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   MAY 28, 2008
Independent political groups are already trying to influence the presidential campaign with TV ads and automated phone calls. Candidates Joh ...
Report from Baghdad
BY ANNA BADKHEN   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE REPORT   |   MAY 8, 2008
War correspondent Anna Badkhen recently returned to Iraq—her 10th trip since 2003—and wrote a series of journals for The Muckraker. Duri ...
Misleading Calls Confuse Voters
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   MAY 1, 2008
A nonprofit with ties to Hillary Clinton is under fire for running apparently illegal "robocalls" ahead of next week's North Carolina primar ...
The Rise of an Alleged Torturer: Bo Xilai
BY SHAHIEN NASIRIPOUR   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE REPORT   |   APRIL 24, 2008
Bo Xilai, the son of one of modern China's most influential leaders, has thus far led a life of privilege and entitlement. It's also been ma ...
The High Price of Diplomacy with China
BY JAMES SANDLER   |   TRUTHDIG   |   APRIL 24, 2008
For two years, the Bush administration has tried to scuttle a federal human rights lawsuit that threatens to embarrass one of China’s top ...
Beijing Olympic Chief Linked to Torture
BY SHAHIEN NASIRIPOUR   |   TRUTHDIG   |   APRIL 24, 2008
The president of Beijing's Olympic Organizing Committee was once found liable for torture in a U.S. federal court, a CIR review of court rec ...
Business of the Bomb: The Modern Nuclear Marketplace
BY MARK SCHAPIRO, MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
The number of nations seeking nuclear technology is rising. An hour-long radio documentary by CIR and American RadioWorks investigates the m ...
The Nuclear Renaissance
BY EMMA BROWN   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
Nuclear power is back on the table as an alternative to carbon-based energy. But some say reviving the global nuclear energy industry presen ...
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