Tories cruising... with help from Ghana
Little more than a day and a half since the start of our poll, the Tories are storming into a huge lead. With more than 2,500 votes cast by Times readers on who you'd vote for on Thursday's local and...

Sierra Leone: coming to terms with the horror of civil war
Hannah Strange, the Times Online news reporter, is spending a week in Sierra Leone, a country still racked by the aftermath of a brutal civil war in which tens of thousands were killed and a third of its total population...

Iconic images in Lego - the originals
"Vietcong Captain", Tet Offensive, Eddie Adams "Tiananmen Square", 1989, Jeff Widener

Life in Sierra Leone's isolated jungle settlements
Hannah Strange, the Times Online news reporter, is spending a week in Sierra Leone, a country still racked by the aftermath of a brutal civil war in which tens of thousands were killed and a third of its total population...

'Real men go to Tehran': what Dick Cheney might have said
It's the White House, some time in January 2002. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, and Stephen Hadley, her deputy, are telling George W. Bush that lumping Iran along with Iraq and North Korea in his forthcoming "Axis of Evil" speech...

Fool or Fact
Are you an April Fool? Read the selection of stories from around the world today and see if you can work out which are true and which are spoofs. 1. The BBC will today broadcast the first ever footage of...

Is the bailout fair on British taxpayers?
This morning a Labour government announced details of a plan to tax the British public to the tune of £50 billion in order to save British banks. That's £50 BILLION - already equivalent to about a third of total annual...

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Research center at George Mason University focused on combining scholarship and cutting edge multimedia to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past. Includes information on tools, projects and media history resources.

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Resource center for media workers, political activists and community organizations. Promotes diverse, accountable and ethical media. Includes Media File online magazine of analysis and commentary.

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