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Gore at Constitution Hall July 17th. (AP photo)

What about Gore’s challenge to drop oil altogether?
COMMENTARY
Joseph A. Davis lists nine points reporters often overlook when dealing with climate and energy. As he does, the question changes—it’s no longer whether becoming 100 percent carbon free in 10 years is possible. It’s whether the current system can last another 10 years.

Of course lenders stopped lending. They’re not stupid.
COMMENTARY
The problem with the economy is that the market worked. That’s a concept reporters and editors need to grasp.

Ask McCain and Obama if they'll work to create a world free of nuclear weapons
ASK THIS
Longtime establishment leaders Shultz, Kissinger, Nunn and Perry have issued a call for the world to be rid of nuclear weapons. Obama says that is his goal; McCain hasn't staked out a position. The press, which has long avoided this subject, needs to ask Obama to spell out his plans, and it needs to get McCain on the record.

Election Day crunch?
A New York Times story on changes in voting machines and concerns. Editors: This one falls in the `all news is local` category.
(New York Times)

Why terrorists quit Al Qaeda
Some do quit, and Michael Jacobson, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, one of the investigators for the 9/11 Commission, explores why.
(U.S. News & World Report)

Naomi Klein
The shock doctrine and Iraqi oil. And ANWR drilling. And offshore drilling.
(The Nation)

Howell Raines on gasoline prices and 'crude reporting'
Howell Raines--yes, that Howell Raines--on the question of whom to trust for an explanation of high gas prices. His answer: start with Barlett and Steele.
(Portfolio)

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For those who've got a headache over the New Yorker's Obama cover, Dan Kennedy's advice in the Guardian is, pretty much, to take two aspirin and see if it doesn't go away.
(The Guardian)

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Election 2008 | Bush broke the government. So who's going to fix it?
ASK THIS
You don't have to be a Washington policy wonk to notice that our government has ceased to function on many levels. A veteran budget expert writes that the political candidates who will inherit Bush's mess need to be asked what they're going to do restore the government to working order.

From Nieman Reports | 'The Daily Me' -- news from a perfect perspective
COMMENTARY
Cass R. Sunstein describes how, with just a few clicks, readers can move into cocoons that, in their eyes, are helpful, supportive, and exactly what they want to hear. And also, as it happens, very polarizing.

Toolbox | The History Commons -- an online tool for journalists
SHOWCASE
Individuals do research to create aggregated, searchable timelines for major events and stories, creating a resource for reporters and editors.

Demanding and getting action | Nieman Reports: Editorials with an impact
SHOWCASE
The New York Daily News editorial board turned investigative reporter after the deaths and serious illness of workers at Ground Zero. The work won a Pulitzer in 2007, contributed to public knowledge and helped shake loose government assistance.

Second in a series | Nieman Reports: Anne Hull and Dana Priest on their Walter Reed stories
SHOWCASE| July 04, 2008
The award-winning Washington Post reporters describe how they went about their work.

Government bait and switch? | Taken for a ride in Miami
SHOWCASE
Reporter Larry Lebowitz gives the backstory for what resulted in a rich Miami Herald multi-media series on big promises to improve mass transit, but little action.

A colonel's view | Frustration in the Army officer corps -- the untold story
COMMENTARY
Army officers are tremendously stressed out, for a lot of obvious reasons. But they don't like complaining to reporters. A retired Army colonel looks at the pressures created by fighting two wars at the same time – and suggests a few ways members of the media can get beleaguered officers to open up.

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