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New Snowden Revelations Show US Targeting of WikiLeaks, Assange
These documents shed even more light on the Obama administration's continuing attacks on bona fide journalists and whistleblowers.
Academic Self-Marginalization Not the Problem
The bigger question, and the less obvious problem with Kristof's opinion, is whether more of us would do any good for the world.
Snowden Attorney Radack Interrogated and Harassed at Heathrow
Her questioners made it clear that she was subjected to this intrusive and hostile treatment because of her legal relationship to Mr. Snowden.
Banning Home Births: The Next Wave of Reproductive Control?
There is a growing movement to regulate both midwives and home births.
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Predator Banks Enter Brave New World of Epic Scams and Public Hasn’t Got a Clue
Wall Street is using loopholes in financial legislation to seize control of entire industrial chains.
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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 …