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Patients May Die When Doctors Moonlight as Big Pharma’s “Key Opinion Leaders“
(Photo: yanivba) As the crimson sun slipped into the gray Pacific Ocean, a multibillion-dollar drug deal took shape. A group of board-certified doctors greeted each other in …
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The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector; a Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money
Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign. …
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Protesters Demand Tougher Robo-Signing Settlement for Banks Making Record Executive Payouts
Protesters demand a tougher settlement for banks over the “robo-signing” scandal in Chicago, January 23, 2012. (Photo: A Just Harvest) Federal officials this week are moving to finalize …
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Aftershocking: Frontline’s Fukushima Documentary a Lazy Apologia for the Nuclear Industry
There is much to say about this week’s Frontline documentary, “Nuclear Aftershocks,” and some of it would even be good. For the casual follower of nuclear news in the ten months …
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A Korean Spring?
As 2011 came to a close, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il took the world by surprise (including the CIA which, like the rest of us, …
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Universal Public Education Is Dead
The National Education Association (NEA) received criticism for publishing an Op-Ed with Teach for America (TFA). Ken Bernstein found the piece to be “unbelievable,” while raising the possibility that union members felt betrayed. …
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For Giffords, House Comeback Is One Too Many
Washington — For months, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt last year, signaled that returning to Congress, something she desperately longed to …
Buffett on Why Romney Should Pay Higher Taxes: He’s Just “Shoving Around Money,” Not “Straining His Back” (2)
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Pentagon’s New Strategic Guidance: Summary of Content and Implications
In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon’s new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. Designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to …
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Best-Selling Author Thomas Frank Reads From His New Book, “Pity the Billionaire”
Thomas Frank, formerly an opinion writer for The Washington Post as well as a current monthly columnist for Harper's, is the founder of the journal The Baffler and the …