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White House Counterterrorism Adviser Should Tell the Whole Truth About Drone Strikes
On Monday, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan publicly addressed the US use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists in countries with which the United States is not at …
Major Super PACs Spent Big on Deceptive Ads
According to a new report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, four super PACs spent over half of their advertising budgets on deceptive ads in the Republican presidential primary. …
A Tale of Two Rules: Washington Bureaucracy and the Politics of Workplace Safety
Washington, D.C. - Many laws are proposed in this town, but only some are passed. The same is true of regulations—except the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), …
Not Explaining the Why of Terrorism
John Brennan, President Obama’s chief adviser on counter-terrorism, has again put on public display two unfortunate facts: (1) that the White House has no clue as to how to …
Goldman Sachs Political Contributions Tainted by Money From Swindled Veterans and Other Misdeeds
Goldman Sachs Building. (Photo: Bill Benzon / Flickr)For-profit colleges have been aggressively targeting and recruiting veterans as they chase post-9/11 GI benefits as a lucrative source of revenue not …
Algorithmic Capitalism and Educational Futures: Informationalism and the Googlization of Knowledge
Algorithmic Trading and Cloud Capitalism The report of the staffs of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission to the Joint Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory …
University of California Takes Aim at Human Rights Activists
University campuses have been an important venue for concerned scholars and activists to raise issues regarding human rights, international law and US foreign policy. However, in an effort to …
Bored With Occupy – and Inequality: Class Issues Fade Along With Protest Coverage
Occupy Wall Street is rightly credited with helping to shift the economic debate in America from a fixation on deficits to issues of income inequality, corporate greed and the …
Too Hot Not to Notice?
The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August …
Across New York City, People Honor May Day (Part II)
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement make their way down Broadway in New York, May 1, 2012. (Photo: Michael Appleton / The New York Times)Continued from my previous …