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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
While a public declaration of being interested in negotiating peace is a breakthrough of sorts, any real progress remains a long shot.
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
President Obama promised transparency, and he can begin with the secret surveillance court.
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via New York Times (Editorials)
The Federal Trade Commission has been battling for years to end a devious tactic used by some drug companies to pay competitors to delay putting cheaper generic versions of ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
After another run of indictments and arrests of public officials, New York’s lawmakers are planning to leave Albany this week without doing anything about the scandals ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), Google News (U.S. Congress)
Editorial: The Court: Congress Regulates Federal Elections
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The election of Hassan Rowhani as Iran’s next president creates an opportunity to move forward on a negotiated agreement to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program and to ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
The Supreme Court handed down two significant criminal justice rulings on Monday that were mixed in how they will affect fairness and Americans’ basic rights. The first ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
In the United States, there are some 8,600 federal meat inspectors working in 6,300 packing and processing plants. Their task is daunting: visual and manual inspection of ...
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via New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Editorials)
More than 50,000 New Yorkers slept in city homeless shelters and on the streets last night. About 21,000 were children. These numbers are huge and appalling, higher than they ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
For Republican leaders in Congress, the Internal Revenue Service scandal always had a higher purpose. They had no interest in fixing the clear management problems at the ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
Beyond wending through airport security minus shoes and belt, tens of thousands of American travelers have been singled out in line during the last six years to be chatted up ...
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via New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
There is a durable belief that much of today’s unemployment is rooted in a skills gap, in which good jobs go unfilled for lack of qualified applicants. This is mostly a ...
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via New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Editorials)
The Environmental Protection Agency is obliged under the Clean Water Act to monitor America’s waterways and shield them from the toxic runoff from factory farms. But the ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Opinion)
The “war on marijuana” has become a war on minorities.
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
Human rights in Egypt have remained under attack even after the 2011 revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Still, it was a shock when the Cairo Criminal Court ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
Most Internet users were disabused of the notion that their online activities could be kept entirely secret long before the recent revelations that the National Security ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
The International Monetary Fund now has a chance to show what it has learned from past policy mistakes on Greece, mistakes it acknowledged last week. This week a delegation ...
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
A man freed after 16 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is now helping other wrongfully convicted inmates seek justice.
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via New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Editorials)
President Obama boxed himself into a corner when he said last year that Syria’s use of chemical weapons against its people would be crossing a “red line” that could ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court correctly resolved one of the most important and complex disputes in a generation involving the intersection of science, ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed an excellent 10-point bill to protect women’s rights in New York State. The problem now is that legislators are trying to chip away at his ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
Even before the vote on Friday, Iran’s presidential election has to be seen as deeply flawed. The Guardian Council that vets candidates disqualified more than 600 potential ...
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via New York Times (Editorials)
After years of sitting on the sidelines, the United States Justice Department has finally made itself heard in the federal civil rights lawsuit by New Yorkers who say the ...
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via New York Times (Editorials), New York Times (Opinion)
It is time for New York State lawmakers to extend basic civil rights protections to transgender people.
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via New York Times (Opinion), New York Times (Editorials)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposals to buttress New York City gives his successor a good starting point.
