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How Scalia Distorts the Framers
In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …
Explosive Increase in Mobile Data Requests Means Congress Needs to Act Now on Digital Privacy
The actual number of people swept up in the cell phone surveillance could be ten, twenty or thirty times higher than 1.3 million because many of the law enforcement …
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Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and Gross National Pain
The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get …
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Blame Politics, Not Economics, for This Enduring Crisis
So why the sense that macroeconomics is a mess? Iu2019d say that itu2019s essentially political.
Inequality Rises as Union Numbers Decline
By now, weu2019ve all heard about the growing disparity between rich and poor u2014 and most of us have felt the effects. This chart, posted by Colin Gordon of …
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For Europe’s Leaders, the Solution Remains Elusive
The European Union summit in June was clearly an upside surprise: in effect, the Latin bloc forced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bend, at least slightly. But was it …
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Diminished Expectations
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Higgs Boson Key to Particle Physics
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Why Are Women and Transgender Comic Creators Getting Less of the Pie?
Men make up only 54 percent of comics creators, and submit work at approximately the same rates as women.
America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations
The trade agreement would give unprecedented political authority and legal protection to foreign corporations.