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“Intern Nation”: Are we exploiting a generation of workers?

Jacob Sugarman
An unpaid apprenticeship is a staple of recession America. Is this an outrage -- or a smart way of doing business?
In this photo taken on Saturday, May 21, 2011, smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles, (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004. Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air. (AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ICELAND OUT (AP)

Ash from Icelandic volcano may disrupt flights

Meera Selva
Plume could affect UK travel as early as tonight; a similar cloud closed European airspace for five days last year
Workers stand atop the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., Thursday, May 12, 2011, as water seeps through, bottom, during an aerial tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the spillway is opened. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Louisiana readies to open spillway, flood Cajun country

Mary Foster, Holbrook Mohr
State will open Morganza Spillway for only second time ever in face of historic floods

What we can learn from the story of TableTalk

Scott Rosenberg
The pioneering online community that I helped Salon create is shutting its doors, but its influence is everywhere
Speaker of the House, John Boehner

John Boehner’s bogus debt ceiling bluff

Andrew Leonard
A hostage the GOP can't kill: Congress will not allow the U.S. government to default
Police officers' protective suits, boots and helmets are placed on the ground while they rest after their recovery operation shift in the area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) (AP)

Japan won’t abandon nuclear power despite crisis

Mari Yamaguchi
Government has no plans to shut down more functioning nuclear reactors
A volunteer girl from Tokyo works to clean the debris of a house in Higashimatsushima, northern Japan Saturday, April 30, 2011. She is a member of a Tokyo's volunteer group which helps earthquake and tsunami devastated areas on weekend. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Workers re-enter Japan nuclear reactor building

Tomoko A. Hosaka
First incursion since devastating earthquake a month-and-a-half ago
Grover Norquist

The GOP’s permanent debt-ceiling revolution

Andrew Leonard
Grover Norquist's new master plan: Extort concessions from Democrats for debt-ceiling hostages every two months

How swipe fee politics have crippled Washington

Andrew Leonard
In the midst of a lobbying war between banks and retailers, there's no time left for governing the country
In this April 12, 2011 photo released by the Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News, a Japanese soldier is tested for radiation exposure at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's worst nuclear disaster, northeastern Japan. The sports complex is about about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan mulls a stricter evacuation zone near plant

Elaine Kurtenbach, Mari Yamaguchi
Japanese government may legally ban people from a 12-mile radius around crippled power plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata speaks during a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Sunday, April 17, 2011. TEPCO, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan, announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama) (AP)

Japan nuclear firm reveals plan to end crisis

Yuri Kageyama, Shino Yuasa
TEPCO, operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power station, aims to stabilize plant within nine months

Harry Potter and the network of neutrality

Michael Winship
All of us have to stay on our toes if we're to continue to have the Internet as a potent force for change

The grief the GOP just brought on itself

Steve Kornacki
House Republicans just went on record supporting a radical overhaul of Medicare. No wonder Democrats are smiling
Can NBC ever turn all of Thursday into Must-See TV?

Is NBC’s Thursday night lineup doomed?

Matt Zoller Seitz
With uncertain futures for "30 Rock" and "The Office," and a spate of bad sitcoms, the network should be worried
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Shutdown-averting budget deal clears House

Andrew Taylor
Dozens of Tea Party nays don't deter passage of the compromise struck by Obama and GOP leaders last week
President Barack Obama is seen in a television monitor as he outlines his fiscal policy during an address at George Washington University in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Time to play ball

Gene Lyons
How Obama's seeming passivity has emboldened the right -- and made Republicans reckless
FILE - In this April 8, 2011 photo, President Obama poses for photographers in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington after he spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers. The Treasury Department reports on the federal budget deficit for March. In February, the government ran the largest-ever budget gap for a single month. The shortfall kept this year's annual deficit on pace to end as the biggest in U.S. history, $1.5 trillion. And that's not likely to change much, even after President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans struck a deal last week to cut $38.5 billion from this year's budget. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

What to watch for in Obama’s deficit speech

Andrew Leonard
If the president can convince swing voters he's more reasonable than the GOP, he wins
President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during his visit to a UPS shipping facility in Landover, Md., Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

America and the Great Disappointment

Michael Winship
He's proud of cutting the budget at expense of poor and at no cost to corporate America. What will Obama say next?
President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Let’s wait for Obama’s speech before we react to it

Joan Walsh
Bad and good news for Dems trickled out all day. We can still hope the president rejects the GOP's premises
President Barack Obama speaks to the media after a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at the White House in Washington, regarding the budget and possible government shutdown, Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Sorry, Obama, but budget cuts are not “historic”

Andrew Leonard
A case can be made for the deal, but it's not the one the president is making. And next up, more GOP extortion
Representative Donna Edwards calls upon the Seven Nation Army.

Congress invokes power of White Stripes, Led Zeppelin

Drew Grant
Did rock prevent a government shutdown on Friday? And does that mean the era of the political hip-hop dis is over?

The Week in Uppers

Peter Finocchiaro
The cheerful news you missed while fretting about a government shutdown
President Obama poses for photographers in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington after he spoke regarding the budget and averted government shutdown after a deal was made between Republican and Democrat lawmakers, Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama signs short-term bill staving off shutdown

Associated Press
Stop-gap measure will fund government until congressional leaders hammer out final bill next week

Pop Torn: 10 pieces of culture we’re feeling iffy about

Drew Grant
This week we're on the fence about Jay-Z's new lifestyle site, Miley Cyrus sex dolls and the baby bald eagle cam
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