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To Gov. Christie, From the Teacher He Screamed at
“I wanted to know why Gov. Chris Christie portrays New Jersey public schools as failure factories. Apparently that question struck a nerve.”
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Big Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state.
Hopkins Halts Program After Investigation Finds Docs Denied Disability Benefits for Miners With Black Lung
World-renowned Johns Hopkins Medicine forced to suspend program after investigation finds one doctor reviewed 1,500 cases and never found an instance of black lung, denying coal miners disability benefits.
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So, About Those Cancellation Letters…
It turns out that many of those cancellation letters were misleading, and failed to mention that customers could find better policies at lower prices on a healthcare exchange.
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Detroit Will be Democracy’s Decisive Battle
Detroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating u201cthe template for direct corporate rule.u201d
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Inside the Psyche of the 1%
The unsuccessful psychopath might go to jail for swindling dozens of people with home improvement scams while successful psychopaths might swindle millions with bank deals, get bailed out by …
So Who Is Carmen Segarra? A Fed Whistleblower Q&A
Segarra says she was fired after she found that Goldman lacked an adequate company-wide policy to manage conflicts of interest u2014 and after her superiors urged her to change …
CIA’s Washington Post Leaks Aimed at Silencing Drone Critics
Gareth Porter: CIA leaks to the Washington Post alleging Pakistani support for drone strikes a ploy to prop up increasingly unpopular program.
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The Short Life and Drone-Delivered Death of Tariq Aziz
The reporter describes his interactions with Tariq Aziz, a schoolboy from the tribal regions of North Waziristan u2013 before and after Aziz's death by drone attack.
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How to Steer Our Rolls-Royce World onto a Smoother Road
“No child anywhere needs to grow up — and suffer — in extreme poverty,” writes Pizigati.