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Trevor Potter on the Money in Politics Disaster
Money in politics is one area in which all Americans agree: The system isn't working.
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How Drug Companies Game the Placebo Effect
Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard of drug testing—but companies can easily tweak the system in their favor. By Andrew Gelman and Kaiser Fung.
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Company Behind Keystone Pipeline Is Now Officially Stalling Until Obama’s Out of Office
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline on Monday asked the U.S. to put on hold the review of its proposal to build the controversial 1,179-mile pipeline connecting the tar sands of Canada with the Gulf of Mexico. By Elliot Hannon.
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Betrayed by the badge
AP Investigation finds hundreds of law enforcement officers have lost their licenses over sex crimes or sex-related misconduct. By Matt Sedensky and Nomaan Merchant.
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Watchdog Accuses Pentagon of Evading Questions on $800 Million Afghanistan Program
Despite lacking access to key documents and personnel, the inspector general determined that nearly $43 million had been spent on a natural gas station that should have cost closer to $300,000. By Megan McCloskey.
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Who’s Behind Friedrichs?
As the current term of the U.S. Supreme Court opens this autumn, looming on the docket is Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case designed to decimate public-sector unions. While it may not come to that—even the most knowledgeable Court-watchers are unsure how the justices will rule—the stakes are high. A decision is expected before the term ends in June.
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At a Success Academy Charter School, Singling Out Pupils Who Have ‘Got to Go’
Sixteen children at the Brooklyn school appeared on a list with that title; nine later left. Current and former employees say the network puts pressure on some parents to withdraw. By Kate Taylor.
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Making Insider Trading Legal
Thanks to gaping loopholes implicitly endorsed by the Supreme Court, hedge funds now essentially have a license to cheat. By Patrick Radden Keefe.
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The Selling Of Trust
How Russia’s longest and largest bank fraud has been covered up as it passed from one owner to another, starting with Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ending with Ruben Aganbegyan, Alexander Mamut, et al. By John Helmer.
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Springtime for Grifters
**Submitter's note: to avoid paywall restrictions, always browse this site in privacy/incognito mode.** The scammers — some looking for votes, some just to line their pockets — figure their victims won’t believe the truths presented by mainstream media.
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Is There a Silver Lining to Citizens United?
By making a mockery of traditional efforts at reform, the Supreme Court’s ruling shifted our attention to local experiments that appear to be working. By Thomas B. Edsall.
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A Tale of Two Retirements: One for CEOs and One for the Rest of Us
While the availability of pension plans for most Americans has dwindled in the last 30 years, more than half of Fortune 500 CEOs receive company-sponsored pension plans. Their firms are allowed to deduct the cost of these plans from their taxes, even if they have cut worker pensions or never offered them at all.
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Charles Koch’s Frankenstein problem: He created the Tea Party monster — and now he’s horrified with the results
The Koch network gave rise to the rabid right. But now Charles Koch wails about a "lack of substance and civility"
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Ai Weiwei accuses Cameron of sacrificing Britain's values by pursuing China’s money
One of the world's leading human rights campaigners has launched a scathing attack on David Cameron - accusing him of sacrificing British values for Chinese cash. Ai Weiwei accused the Prime Minister is lowering Britain's standards on human rights and its "essential values" by agreeing billions of pounds worth of trade deals during President Xi Jinping's state visit to the UK.
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From Fracking to Finance, a Torrent of Campaign Cash
A look at some of the business, personal, and ideological ties that bind megadonors in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared
Today's release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations.
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The Right Wing's Assault on the Post Office — Smashing the Myth That It's in Financial Trouble
The problem with the Post's argument starts in its thesis: that the post office is in some sort of deep fiscal hole of its own making – a result of being left behind in the Internet Age and a shrinking consumer base. The truth is that almost all of the postal service's losses can be traced back to a single change in the law made by the Republican Congress in 2006.
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Coca-Cola Calls for FIFA's Sepp Blatter to Step Down Immediately
Coca-Cola Co., a top sponsor of FIFA, called for Joseph “Sepp” Blatter to step down immediately as president of soccer’s governing body following a scandal involving alleged bribes and kickbacks.
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Paul Davis files lawsuit against Kris Kobach over purging of suspended voters list
Paul Davis and Will Lawrence, an attorney who worked on Davis’ campaign for governor, are representing two Douglas County residents, Alder Cromwell and Cody Keener, who are on the list. They assert that removing their names from the list violates the National Voter Registration Act.
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Virginia Republicans Admit They Rigged The State’s Congressional Districts To Elect GOP Lawmakers
The GOP's goal was to render congressional elections little more than political theater, an annual ritual that would produce the same 8-3 delegation every single time.
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