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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau - May. 19 (Comment) - Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

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President Obama exercises a fluid grip on the levers of power

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Philip Rucker, Peter Wallsten - May. 19 (Comment) - President Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own administration. ...

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The Media Equation: Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:45:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DAVID CARR - May. 19 - If you were going to look for ground zero in the fight against a rapidly consolidating telecom and cable industry, you might end up on the fifth floor of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. Todd Heisler/The New York Times Susan Crawford, a

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New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - May. 18 (Opinion) - FiveThirtyEight: New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking

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Energy Exports Are Good!

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By JOE NOCERA - May. 18 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Columnist: Energy Exports Are Good!

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How Latin Culture Got More Gay

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By HÉCTOR CARRILLO - May. 17 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: How Latin Culture Got More Gay

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We need to talk about masculinity

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Laurie Penny - May. 17 (Opinion) - The crisis facing men and boys cannot be solved by reviving the tired stereotypes that oppress and constrain them We need to talk about masculinity. Across a country torn by recession and struggling to adapt to social change, men and boys are feeling lost and powerless, unsure what the future holds and what role they might play in it. Most feel as if they're not allowed to question what it means to be a man today – or discuss what it might mean tomorrow. The Labour MP Diane Abbott, launching a new campaign this week, is not the first person to kick up a fuss about this "crisis of masculinity". In a speech to the thinktank Demos on Thursday she said that millions of young men are in distress, acting out violently or sinking into depression. Unfortunately, the only solution many in the audience could offer is not giving men and boys more power over their own lives, but restoring their traditional power over women, as "breadwinners" and "male providers". Nobody seems to have bothered to ask ...

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And on the Plus Side

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By GAIL COLLINS - May. 16 (Opinion) - Let’s try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House: • Economy’s getting a little better. Deficit’s dropping. • Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and look how well things turned out f

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Immigrants To Be Largest Driver Of U.S. Population Growth

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - May. 16 (Comment) - The Census Bureau projects, for the first time in almost two centuries, immigrants will be the main source of U.S. population growth as early as 2027.

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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - May. 16 (Comment) - The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern Washington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case of the vapors as they don their Woodward/Bernstein capes and doggedly uncover the truth behind the Obama Administration's lies. What's missing, however, is actual evidence of wrongdoing. The IRS scandal is certainly the most politically toxic, but it remains unclear that anyone from the Obama Administration knew what the IRS was doing or that the agency was even targeting conservative groups for partisan political reasons. The Department of Justice's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press is far more troubling because it offers a glimpse into the prosecutorial zeal that has defined DoJ's investigation of leaks from within the Obama Administration. Finally, there ...

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Eric Holder’s abdication

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dana Milbank - May. 16 - As the nation’s top law enforcement official, Eric Holder is privy to all kinds of sensitive information. But he seems to be proud of how little he knows. Why didn’t his Justice Department inform the Associated Press, as the law requires, before pawing through reporters’ phone records ? ...

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How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By SARAH LEAH WHITSON - May. 15 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire

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First Steps to a Better Immigration Bill

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By The Editorial Board - May. 12 (Opinion) - Editorial: First Steps to a Better Immigration Bill

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Will Obama suffer the ‘second-term curse’?

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen Tumulty, Philip Rucker - May. 12 (Comment) - Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.” Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda through an unbudging ...

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Pay People to Cook at Home

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KRISTIN WARTMAN - May. 11 (Opinion) - But how do we get there? For many of us, whether we are full-time workers or full-time parents, this home-cooked meal is a fantasy removed from the reality of everyday life. And so Americans continue to rely on highly processed and refined foods that are

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Op-Ed Columnist: Bernanke, Blower of Bubbles?

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 10 (Opinion) - Bubbles can be bad for your financial health — and bad for the health of the economy, too. The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s left behind many vacant buildings and many more failed dreams. When the housing bubble of the next decade burst, the result wa

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