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Can Electric Cars Win Over Consumers in 2012?
Electric vehicles failed to gain traction in the mainstream market last year, which saw lackluster sales for the industry's first arrivals, the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf. …
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As “Right to Work” Law Looms, Indiana Occupiers Join With Limestone Strikers
An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college …
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Mitt, Son of “Citizen’s United”
Former Governor Mitt Romney at a townhall in Sun Lakes, Arizona, September 14, 2011. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) First, a confession. If Mitt Romney becomes president I’m partly …
Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima
It is one of the marvels of our time that the nuclear industry managed to resurrect itself from its ruins at the end of the last century, when it …
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New Hampshire’s New Scopes Trial
New Hampshire took an early lead this year in the effort to dumb down school students and erode the separation of church and state in the education system by …
Speeding Up Security: The TSA Wants to Screen Before They Scan
TSA body scanners continue their steady advance into our nation’s airports, but another agency security initiative begins well before travelers ever reach a checkpoint. PreCheck, the TSA’s nascent pre-screening …
Unequal Risks and Benefits for Citizens in Six States on Keystone XL Pipeline Route
If the Keystone XL oil pipeline were approved today, residents in the six states along its route would not receive equal treatment from TransCanada, the company that wants to …
OWS, Egypt Expose Limits of Town Square Test
Many of last year’s most dramatic photographs showed people packing public places to sound off. We saw memorable images of crowds gathering at Tahrir Square to lambast one government …
Occupying Fears About Iran
President Barack Obama speaks about Iran to reporters at the White House on Thursday, October 1, 2009. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) U.S. behavior …
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Dispatch from Detention: A Rare Look Inside Our “Humane” Immigration Jails
(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) Sam Kitching, a soft-spoken, round old man dressed in civilian clothes who works for the Sheriff’s department at the …