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Why Snowden’s Passport Matters
Revocation of Snowden's U.S. passport has been a crucial weapon to prevent him from crossing an international border for any reason other than to come home to prison in …
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Healthcare.gov Debacle: Spare Some Blame for Bush and Clinton
Reinventing government by gutting it doesnu2019t appear to have lived up to its promise.
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Paul Krugman | The World According to the GOP
It's not just Fox News watchers who live in a bubble; sometimes, wealth and power can have the same effect.
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Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
In a return to Jim Crow vote suppression tactics, Judge Richard Posner's Voter ID law has kept 72,000 black voters from the polls.
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Spinning Failure Into Gold
Wall Street's greatest deception is the claim that they're brave risk takers who put their money into enterprises that create America's economic growth.
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Politicians’ Extortion Racket?
Some politicians are involved in a type of “legal extortion” to get their hands on cash, with terms like the “tollbooth” and “milker bills” describing some of these practices.
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Female Prisoners’ Babies Shouldn’t Be Sentenced to Life Without Breast Milk
The vast majority of the 10,000 babies born to US prisoners each year are deprived of their mothers - and their mother's milk.
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The Triumph of the Right
The Right is still winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.
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Dick Cheney’s Heartless Hypocrisy
Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded …
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Stop Treating Capitalists Like They’re Gods
Senator Rand Paul has no idea how capitalism works. That's because, like most Americans, he confuses capitalism with free enterprise.