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Elections 2006 | Start asking questions now about vote-counting in your area ASK THIS Do the citizens in your area have good reason to be confident that, if they make it into the voting booth, their votes will actually be counted? Don’t wait until the next election is upon us. Here are some important basic questions to which the public deserves answers. 
Covering Katrina | Looking for answers in the wake of a hurricane ASK THIS Lisa Getter (Nieman Class of '95), a member of the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer winning team for coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, has some suggestions for reporting the Katrina story.
Covering the war | Figuring out options in Iraq ASK THIS The head of Georgetown University's security studies program poses questions critical to an informed debate over where we go from here.
The India relationship | Will President Bush's 'one big idea' turn out to be a bad one? ASK THIS The president’s longstanding desire for closer relations with India led to his dramatic proposal in July to share nuclear technology with India. But Brookings Institution scholar Stephen Cohen thinks reporters should be exploring what the fallout would be in such areas as non-proliferation and relations with China.
A matter of emphasis | Gas prices aren’t at a record high (yet) but health care costs are ASK THIS Increases at the pump make news because they are dramatic but only medical care prices are advancing far beyond the level of inflation, and they are doing so month after month. [Editor's note, Sept. 1: No longer true; gas prices are now at record levels.]
About those bases | Does the U.S. plan to be in Iraq forever? ASK THIS The question of permanent U.S. military bases is an incredibly contentious one in Iraq. But for some reason, Dan Froomkin writes, the press isn’t pinning the Bush administration down on this one.
Justice delayed | Tracking down racist killers from the 50s, 60s and 70s ASK THIS John Britton says that while a resolution by Senators apologizing for past inaction made headlines, he’d like to see more substantive measures
Repeatedly denied | Too often, mental health care comes only when it’s too late ASK THIS Do health-care editors practice a double standard, counting on the system to help those with physical problems but disregarding the need for assistance to the mentally ill?
Covering the war | Is the administration serious about withdrawing troops from Iraq? ASK THIS The White House has consistently rejected calls for a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. Yet the commander of American forces there said recently that "some fairly substantial reductions" are possible in the spring and summer of 2006. How credible are such statements? Is this talk just a gambit related to the 2006 elections? And should the matter of troop withdrawals solely be determined by debate within the administration?
Covering the war | What’s wrong with cutting and running? ASK THIS Everything that opponents of a pullout say would happen if the U.S. left Iraq is happening already, says retired Gen. William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. So why stay?
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