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Six Months After Obama Promised to Divulge More on Drones, Here’s What We Still Don’t Know
While the number of drone strikes has dropped this year, the Obama administration continues to take their time divulging the details of the drone warfare program.
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Dark Money’s New Frontier: State Judicial Elections
Increasingly, state high courts are falling prey to the same out-of-control, post-Citizens United election spending that has plagued legislative and executive races during the past two election cycles.
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Medical Advertising
Not too many years ago, certainly before the growth of the for-profit Humana medical plans system in the late 1970s, it was considered unprofessional and really forbidden for doctors …
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Aristotle’s Lantern
At a time when there's an almost universal attack on the natural world, it helps to remember Aristotle, the fourth century BCE Greek natural philosopher. He remains a model …
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Out of Hurricane Sandy Devastation, Free Photographic Book Combines Art With Generosity
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New York Judge Renews Order Barring Drone Protesters From Air Base
A judge in DeWitt, New York, recently barred 17 activists from Hancock Air Base, where they were arrested last year during a protest over drones.
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Monsanto and Junk Food Companies Spend Millions to Fight GMO Labeling in Congress
The biggest names in biotechnology and processed food products have spent millions of dollars fighting efforts in Washington and California to label genetically engineered foods, and they are spending …
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Forget the Faulty Website: GOP Uses Obamacare Hearing to Whine About Abortion Instead
So far the failures of Healthcare.gov have been public and embarrassing, bandied about by Republican politicians who opposed health care reform from the start.
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MSNBC “Leans Forward” Into Running “Native Ads” Promoting Fracking
Critics believe the shift toward native ads blurs the line between news and advertising, public relations and propaganda.
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Senate Moving Toward Bill to Ban Workplace Bias Against Gays
A long-stalled bill banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is likely to pass the Senate as early as this week.