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Fed Orders Post-Crisis Crackdown at Big Banks
The long-anticipated rule covers banks both domestic and international with assets above $50 billion.
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A Lesson From Chattanooga
One especially important lesson concerns how one factor - “outside influence” - works so one-sidedly in the United States.
Holder’s Speech on Felon Disenfranchisement: A Step Forward or Just Lip Service?
Attorney General Eric Holder called for a ban on laws prohibiting more than 6 million felons from voting.
“Frackgate”: Ohio Regulators Planned to Subvert Eco-Groups, Promote Fracking in State Parks
Republican Gov. John Kasich and Ohio regulators are in hot water over internal documents that show the administration planned to collude with the oil and gas industry to publicly …
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Art Does Not Imitate Life: TV Dramas Can’t Capture the Real World of Politics
“House of Cards” puts the arcane rigmarole of Washington politics on a level the public can understand: the lone psychopath who is the Hillside Strangler of a hundred cop …
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Western States’ Regulation of Pot Provides Template For Rest of Nation
Lawmakers in some states are applying the principles of legalization, regulation and education to cannabis. Ultimately, only criminals benefit from prohibition.
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Justice in a Postracial World
In the United States, perceptions of possible deadly threats are too often race-inflected.
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US Support for Regime Change in Venezuela Is a Mistake
The US push to topple the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro once again pits Washington against South America.
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Four Signs Billionaire Tom Perkins Has Lost Touch With Reality (and Why It Matters)
American multi-billionaire Tom Perkins can't seem to avoid controversy lately.
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Do We Care About People if They Live in Bahrain?
For three years now people in the little island nation of Bahrain have been nonviolently protesting and demanding democratic reforms.