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Justices Have Been Forced to Resign for Doing What Clarence Thomas Has Done
Justice Clarence Thomas is an ethics problem in a black robe. Just eight months after ThinkProgress broke the story of Thomas’ attendance at a Koch-sponsored political fundraiser, we learn …
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Business as Usual on Steroids
In the seven weeks since the killing of Osama bin Laden, pundits and experts of many stripes have concluded that his death represents a marker of genuine significance in …
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Big Coal Buys Access to Fourth Graders
If some predator were stalking fourth graders in your community, there'd be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools. …
DUKES v. WAL-MART (short)
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EU: Industry Lobbies Set Up Spin on Cash-for-Amendments Scandal
After the intense debate and media attention in the first weeks after the European Parliament's cash-for-amendments scandal broke, it has become very quiet in the last weeks. Discussions about transparency and …
The $113 Billion Hole: Ten Things America Gave Up This Year to Pay for the War in Afghanistan
President Obama is expected to announcewithin a week if and how many combat troops he plans to withdraw from the war in Afghanistan. Some of those who will be …
Whatever Happened to Stability Analysis?
Milton Friedman in 1977. Friedman’s view was that the natural rate of unemployment is “the level that would be ground out by the Walrasian system of general equilibrium equations, …
Evaluating the Drug War, By the Numbers
Inmates in a mental observation unit on Rikers Island in Ocotber 2004. (Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times) On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug …
Police Officer Who Killed Oscar Grant Free, but Some Protesters Could Still Face Jail Time
Protesters demonstrating in Oakland, November 5, 2010, against Grant's killing. (Photo: Thomas Hawk) Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant …