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State budgets in crisis: Happy new year
Economist - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
Every state but two, commodity-rich North Dakota and Montana, has faced a deficit this year. One legislator in New ...
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British Embassy row: Why Iran's hard-liners are inviting isolation
Christian Science Monitor - by Dan Murphy - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
A senior cleric called Friday for British Embassy employees to be tried for allegedly inciting mass protests. The ...
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Selling the Post Dinners
Atlantic Monthly - by Joshua Green - Jul. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
Mike Allen’s recent report on the controversial Washington Post lobbyist dinners has sparked a furor. One thing ...
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Kennedy, Dodd unveil trimmer Senate healthcare bill
Associated Press - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Report)
Americans who refuse to buy medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a healthcare ...
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The Great American Bubble Machine
Rolling Stone - by MattTaibbi - Jul. 3, 2009 (Special Report)
The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling ...
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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
The Politico - by Mike Allen - Jul. 3, 2009 (Breaking News)
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, ...
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Are We Losing Our Ability to Think Critically? | July 2009 | Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org, Communications of the ACM - by Samuel Greengard - Jul. 4, 2009 (News Report)
Society has long cherished the ability to think beyond the ordinary. In a world where knowledge is revered and ...
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Committee Dems Release Cheaper, Better Public Health Care Bill
Huffington Post - by Ryan Grim - Jul. 3, 2009 (News Analysis)
Sen. Ted Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee released details of its plan Thursday to expand ...
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Ethnic Healthcare Groups Prescribe Prevention and Access to Care
New America Media - by Jun Wang - Jul. 3, 2009 (News Report)
As the U.S. Congress considers proposals to reform the nation’s healthcare system, participants at a day-long ...
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Canada's in the spotlight as debate on health care reform rages in the U.S.
The Canadian Press - by Lee-Anne Goodman - Jul. 3, 2009 (Special Report)
It's rare that anything to do with Canada is front and centre in the minds of Americans, but the Canadian ...
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A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post
New York Times - by David Carr - Jul. 4, 2009 (Opinion)
Mrs. Graham bestowed legitimacy (Richard M. Nixon never made the cut, even as president). Ms. Weymouth decided to ...
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Facebook’s Easy Virtue
Washington Post - by Monica Hesse - Jul. 4, 2009 (Press Release)
’Click-Through Activism’ Broad but Fleeting
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Canada's Single-Prayer Health Care
Investor's Business Daily - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
A critically ill premature baby is moved to a U.S hospital to get the treatment she couldn't get in the system ...
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Welcome to Moscow
Economist - Jul. 2, 2009 (Opinion)
Over the past ten years, under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, Russia has become more nationalistic, corrupt and ...
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To Catch a Tiger
Atlantic Monthly - by Fred Kaplan - Jul. 2, 2009 (Opinion)
Though it was only a one-day news story in the United States, a momentous event occurred last spring, with ...
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Uwe Reinhardt: Plain Talk on Health Reform
U.S. News & World Report - by Bernadine Healy, M.D. - Jul. 2, 2009 (Interview)
If there were a Straight Talk Express for health economists, Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt would be the ...
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Understanding How Tenure Decisions Are Made
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Michael Bugeja - Jul. 4, 2009 (Opinion)
Some negative promotion and tenure decisions seem predetermined the moment a newly hired scholar signs a job ...
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The Bureaucrat between 50 million Americans and Health Care
Talking Points Memo - by Ted Oehmke - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
As one of the 50 million Americans presently without health insurance, I'm sitting here, fingers crossed, hoping I ...
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The States Are Reeling. Will Health Reform Help?
New Republic - by Harold Pollack - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) Provisions in the federal stimulus package effectively forbid states from cutting Medicaid. Other provisions ...
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The U.S. Flag does not Stand for Freedom
stopwar.lafilmonline.com - by Jon Raymond - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
Why celebrate independence anyway? What are we independent from? The British? How about our own government? Our ...
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Letter from Tehran: With the Marchers
New Yorker - Jun. 28, 2009 (Special Report)
On the afternoon of June 15th, I bumped into my old friend Reza at the huge demonstration on Azadi Street—the ...
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Migration and climate change: A new (under) class of travellers
Economist - by Addis Ababa, Lokichoggio - Jun. 29, 2009 (Special Report)
The International Organisation for Migration thinks there will be 200m climate-change migrants by 2050, when the ...
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The Great American Bubble Machine
Rolling Stone - by MattTaibbi - Jul. 3, 2009 (Special Report)
The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling ...
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Iraq Marks Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Cities
New York Times - by Alissa J. Rubin - Jul. 1, 2009 (News Report)
BAGHDAD — Iraq celebrated the withdrawal of American troops from its cities with parades, fireworks and a ...
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U.S. court cuts off appeals in Monsanto alfalfa case
Reuters - by Gina Keating - Jul. 1, 2009 (News Report)
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday left in place an injunction barring Monsanto Co from selling its Roundup Ready ...
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Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies
Washington Post - by Ceci Connolly - Jun. 28, 2009 (News Report)
In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower ...
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Freeze! You're Under Examination
Miller-McCune - by Bernice Yeung - Jun. 30, 2009 (Special Report)
Freeze! You’re Under Examination Making sure people get health care when they leave prison saves taxpayer money ...
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Local Gay Community Upset Following Reported Bar Raid
cbs11tv.com - by Selena Hernandez FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― - Jun. 29, 2009 (News Report)
Members of the North Texas gay community are angry and they want answers. News of a raid Saturday Night of the ...
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Daily Show Iran | Colbert Report Iraq
GlobalPost - by Thomas Mucha - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
It’s been a fascinating few weeks for global news — the real kind, of course — but also for the fake stuff. ...
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Committee Dems Release Cheaper, Better Public Health Care Bill
Huffington Post - by Ryan Grim - Jul. 3, 2009 (News Analysis)
Sen. Ted Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee released details of its plan Thursday to expand ...
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What the placebo effect can teach us about health care reform. An interview with Peter Orszag.
Slate - by John Dickerson - Jun. 30, 2009 (Interview)
Defaults matter in health plans, too: Most people don't switch their health plans during "open enrollment season," ...
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Insurance Company Schemes
New York Times - Jun. 29, 2009 (Editorial)
Congressional committees heard a lot this month about the devious schemes used by health insurance companies to ...
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Forging a new path to real health care reform
McClatchy - by Dr. Harold S. Luft - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
As specific health care reform proposals begin to emerge, the predictable partisan critiques are appearing. This ...
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Getting a second opinion on healthcare reform: There are voices besides the AMA
Los Angeles Times - by Rahul Rajkumar, Harold Pollack - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
When President Obama visited Chicago recently to discuss healthcare reform with the American Medical Assn., his ...
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Canada's Single-Prayer Health Care
Investor's Business Daily - Jul. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
A critically ill premature baby is moved to a U.S hospital to get the treatment she couldn't get in the system ...
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No Compromise on the Public Plan!: Why Weakening the Public Option Would Weaken the Party Responsible
OurFuture.org - by Phillip Cryan - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
Why are all the alternatives to a robust public plan now being floated in the health care reform debate – ...
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Kicking the Nuclear Habit
TruthOut - by Lawrence Wittner - Jun. 27, 2009 (Opinion)
Six reasons for supporting nuclear abolition are particularly cogent.
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Obama, They Want You to Fail
Consortium News - by Robert Parry - Jun. 29, 2009 (Comment)
The pattern of belligerent Republicans and timid Democrats is now repeating itself on health-care reform. Democrats ...
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Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong
robertreich.blogspot.com - by Robert Reich - Jun. 29, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America's non-system of health care -- private insurers, ...
