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Indiana 'Anti-Gay Law': Firms Criticizing Pence Funded Him As He Fought LGBT Rights
Six of the nine CEOs that have criticized Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's RFRA "anti-gay" law lead firms that have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to his political campaigns. [Autoplay ad]
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How the David Petraeus Prosecution Backfired
The former director of the CIA is getting off easy after leaking classified material to his mistress. Other leakers aren’t so lucky.
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Former CIA head’s no-jail sentence for leaking called “gross hypocrisy”
On the other hand, Army soldier Chelsea Manning got 35 years for leaking.
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Starbucks wants you to feel good about drinking up California's precious water
The coffee giant says it's solving the world's water problems—yet it's profiting off the Golden State's dwindling reserves.
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Petraeus: Use Al Qaeda Fighters to Beat ISIS
To take down the so-called Islamic State in Syria, the influential former head of the CIA wants to co-opt jihadists from America’s arch foe. By Shane Harris.
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David Petraeus’ bright idea: give terrorists weapons to beat terrorists
Former CIA director David Petraeus is advocating giving arms to members of al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaida off-shoot, to beat Isis. That is madness. By Trevor Trimm.
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Theresa May wants to see your internet history, so we thought it was only fair to ask for hers
The Home Office is keeping Ms May's list of visited websites a secret. By Jon Stone.
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How David Petraeus avoided felony charges and possible prison time
The former wartime commander and CIA director ended up with a misdemeanor plea agreement. By Adam Goldman.
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GOP leaders reject Obama's final budget before it's even printed
More than most of my colleagues on The Times' editorial board, I sympathize with the Republicans in Congress who complain about President Obama's expansive use of executive power. I don't always agree, but I see why they complain when the administration ignores a statutory deadline (as it has done with the employer mandate in Obamacare) or creates new legal obligations out of thin air (as it did in granting waivers to the No Child Left Behind mandates).
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45 times Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, seems reluctant to take a firm position. By Jake Tapper.
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The strange life of Q-tips, the most bizarre thing people buy
Q-tips really are one of the most perplexing things for sale in America. By Roberto A. Ferdman.
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Undeniably awful: Lobbyists for Christian privilege issue fallacious ‘report’
Every year, Liberty Institute–which has restyled itself “First Liberty” for ironic reasons we’ll get to later–issues a report on hostility against Christians in America. The report is entitled, with no hint of satire or shame, “Undeniable” and it is full of mischaracterizations and specious claims. It is less a report and more a long list of press releases copied and pasted into a PDF. It is certainly not the scholarly proof of Christian persecution that it purports to be.
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Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump
Bush was just an appetizer — Trump would be the main course, By Matt Taibbi.
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Why the OPM Hack Is Far Worse Than You Imagine
The Office of Personnel Management data breach involves the greatest theft of sensitive personnel data in history. But, to date, neither the scope nor scale of the breach, nor its significance, nor the inadequate and even self-defeating response has been fully aired. By Michael Adams.
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Mitt Romney Is The Real Super-Fraud
Here’s the Proof, Chapter and Verse. By David Stockman. (Mar. 3)
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Withering on the Vine
Were you to draw a Venn diagram of Democrats, meritocrats, and plutocrats, the space where they intersect would be Martha's Vineyard. By Thomas Frank.
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America’s pathetic inability to punish the powerful
To understand is to forgive, and the elite and the upper class understand their own. By Jeff Spross.
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Outrage after big labor crafts law paying their members less than non-union workers
When Los Angeles City Council members voted two years ago to give hotel workers a raise, Bill Martinez was the type of worker they said they wanted to help. Martinez, a 53-year-old bellhop… By Peter Jamison. (Apr. 9)
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The Famous Ethics Professor And The Women Who Accused Him
Thomas Pogge, one of the world’s most prominent ethicists, stands accused of manipulating students to gain sexual advantage. Did the fierce champion of the world's disempowered abuse his own power? By Katie J.M. Baker.
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My Resistance to Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel helped turn the horrors of the Holocaust into an industry of manipulative sentimentality. By Corey Robin.
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