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Rule easing public lands transfer concerns hunters, others
A change in U.S. House rules making it easier to transfer millions of acres of federal public lands to states is worrying hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts. By Keith Ridler.
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Congress Just Missed an Opportunity to Give Americans Access to Cheaper Drugs
An amendment sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders was one of three that addressed the issue, but they were all voted down. By Kayleigh Rogers.
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Ten journalists battle efforts to make them testify in a San Bernardino county corruption case
Ten Southern California journalists are fighting an effort by prosecutors to compel them to testify in the San Bernardino County corruption trials of a developer, a former supervisor and other former county officials. By Paloma Esquivel.
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Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance
Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies. By John W. Whitehead.
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Trump Pick Jay Clayton Will Be Most Conflicted SEC Chair Ever
America’s incoming top cop on finance is literally married to industry. By Matt Taibbi.
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Barack Obama Never Said Money Wasn’t Corrupting; In Fact, He Said the Opposite
In his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama explained how fundraising ineluctably changes politicians.
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Donald Trump Nominates Wall Street Lawyer to Head S.E.C.
The Wall Street lawyer Walter J. Clayton does not travel in political circles, nor is he well known in corporate America. He is the insider’s insider — a deal maker. By Leslie Picker.
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Disclosing the Costs of Corporate Welfare
A new government database will soon spotlight the true costs of corporate tax breaks.
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Top Trump Candidate: Plutocracy Is “Just What America Needs”
Larry Kudlow argues you can trust Trump’s billionaire advisers because “wealthy folks have no need to steal.” By Bess Levin.
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Our Unfortunate Annual Tradition
A Look At What Should Have Entered The Public Domain, But Didn't. By Mike Masnick.
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Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease – report
Influential research that downplayed the role of sugar in heart disease in the 1960s was paid for by the sugar industry, according to a report released on Monday. With backing from a sugar lobby, scientists promoted dietary fat as the cause of coronary heart disease instead of sugar, according to a historical document review published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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How Dr. Strangelove Learned to Love Trump
An alliance between Henry Kissinger and US President-elect Donald Trump may seem unnatural at first blush, but it makes sense as a marriage of convenience. Kissinger wants validation that he is still relevant, which Trump has done by playing on his vanity; and Trump needs the foreign-policy gravitas that Kissinger brings in spades. By Dominique Moisi.
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Trump’s Transition Team Is Stacked With Privatization Enthusiasts
If these officials get their way, America’s schools, roads, prisons, immigrant-detention centers, and critical social-insurance programs will soon fall into private hands. By David Dayen.
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The Enemy Within: Bribes Bore a Hole in the U.S. Border
Over the last decade, nearly 200 Homeland Security workers accepted bribes to let immigrants and drugs into the country, a New York Times review found. By Ron Nixon.
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Trump's EPA Pick Rouses Suspicions Over Ties to Koch Brothers
Scott Pruitt is under fire for his supposed ties to a nonprofit controlled by billionaire oil tycoons, Charles and David Koch. By Lorraine Chow.
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‘The Wealthy Would Never Steal’ — A Credo for Trump’s Party
Lawrence Kudlow explains why conservatives are so happy to embrace kleptocracy. By Jonathan Chiat.
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Trump’s Cabinet of Cronies, by the Numbers
The 73 donors who met with Donald Trump in the past month gave the president-elect and the G.O.P. an average of more than $800,000 each. By Tina Nguyen.
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TPP: How Obama Traded Away His Legacy
"Meanwhile, President Obama's closing argument for Clinton at a Michigan rally the day before the election was to 'continue this journey of progress,' effectively promising a third term of an Obama presidency that had spent the past two years prioritizing the implementation of a trade deal despised not only by working class Midwesterners, but the entire Democratic Party base." By Lori Wallach and Murshed Zaheed.
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£4m food crime unit set up over horse meat scandal has still not resulted in any prosecutions
Britain’s food-policing unit which was created following the horse meat scandal has still not resulted in any prosecutions despite costing the taxpayer £4m. By Nicola Harley.
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Mayor Bragged About Eliminating Health Care, Plus More #RahmDump Revelations
A consulting firm also advocated for privatizing half (!) of Chicago public housing. by Stephen Gossett.
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