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    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 177 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Is Democracy “Nearly Moot?”

    MAY 24, 2012 8:34AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: tax increases, deficits, national debt, tea party, “10 tax questions the candidates don’t want you to ask”, john o. fox, tax reform, democracy nearly moot, political gridlock, common cause, super pacs, money in politics, campaign finance, citizen’s united, “sunday dialogue: making taxation fairer”, new york times, david berman, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 2040 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    A Symbolic Marriage

    MAY 17, 2012 3:57PM

    By David Nova


    Topics: new york times, obama, same-sex marriage

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 5086 Views
    • 58 Comments
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    Is Facebook Evil? Yes!

    MAY 10, 2012 8:28AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: data harvesters, online privacy reform, do not track status, should personal data be personal?, somini sengupta, “facebook is using you”, ashley payne, max schrems, new york times, lori andrews, mark zuckerberg, sale of private information on the web, online privacy, online data aggregators, online privacy, spokeo, google, facebook

    • 4 Ratings
    • 171 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    A single mother, a new baby, and a changed world

    MAY 9, 2012 6:24AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nyc, manhattan, roosevelt hospital, life stories, writers and writing, new york times, twin towers, single mothers, 9/11

    • 17 Ratings
    • 440 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Four Dead in Ohio

    MAY 4, 2012 6:04AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, kent state, vietnam, william calley, richard nixon, commmunism, ohio national guard, my lai massacre, rick pearlstein, veterans of foreign wars, american legion, wall street journal, new york times, james reston, henry kissinger, right wing, american values, blind patriotism, justice, hugh thompson

    • 8 Ratings
    • 257 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    A Mary Todd Lincoln Mystery

    MAY 1, 2012 11:25AM

    By Chicago Guy


    Topics: new york times, fictionique, patricia cohen, art fraud, mary todd lincoln

    • 1 Ratings
    • 130 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Who Really Suffers From Amnesia?

    APRIL 23, 2012 10:27PM

    By jennipenni


    Topics: presidential election, guantanamo bay, abu ghraib, iraq war, hurricane katrina, economy, mitt romney, obama, politics, new york times, paul krugman, bush

    • 6 Ratings
    • 2045 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    What David Brooks Doesn't Get

    APRIL 20, 2012 12:27PM

    By Diana Senechal


    Topics: robert frost, education, assessment, results, value-added assessment, responsibility, accountability, higher education, colleges and universities, new york times, david brooks, testing, national association of schools of music, mark wait, samuel hope

    • Editor's Pick
    • 29 Ratings
    • 6628 Views
    • 79 Comments
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    Why Some Conservatives Vote Against Their Interests

    APRIL 5, 2012 8:32AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: social psychology and voting, “why won’t they listen?” someone’s wrong on the internet, new york times, william saletan, “even critics of safety net increasingly depend on it”, binyamin applebaum, “the righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics”, jonathan haidt, ki gulbranson, conservative contradictions, social psychology, voting, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 144 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Bales not an anomaly: What war is really like

    MARCH 26, 2012 10:51AM

    By Jake Highton


    Topics: afghanistan, new york times, hedges, war

    • 0 Ratings
    • 170 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Baby's Earrings: To Pierce or Not to Pierce

    MARCH 15, 2012 4:44PM

    By joanpgage


    Topics: open call, new york times, miami, ear piercing, baby's first bling

    • 2 Ratings
    • 256 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Her Tossed-Out Diary Made her an Author at 92

    MARCH 12, 2012 1:08PM

    By joanpgage


    Topics: best seller, crone of the week, diary, florence wolfson howitt, greek cats book, open call, new york times, lily koppel, literary fame

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2851 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Fake chicken (and Mark Bittman) to the rescue?

    MARCH 9, 2012 4:44PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: food, new york times, mark bittman, sam sifton, frank bruni, food news, veganism, vegetarianism, less-meatatarianism, chicken, fake chicken, vegan chicken, food politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 6799 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    A (nother) Yoga Sex Scandal

    MARCH 9, 2012 7:12AM

    By LKWalker


    Topics: yoga sex scandal, william broad, new york times, john friend, anusara yoga, rodney yee, tantra, tantra yoga, rush limbaugh, sexuality, feminine power

    • 1 Ratings
    • 598 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    White Slave Children of New Orleans – Why?

    MARCH 2, 2012 2:28PM

    By joanpgage


    Topics: yahoo news, huffington post, daily mail, white slave children of new orleans, sumner, slavery, raising freedom's child, open call, new york times, mirror of race, mary niall mitchell, mary mildred botts, greg fried, daguerreotype, civil war, cdvs

    • 3 Ratings
    • 270 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Anti-Regulation Propaganda from the NY Times

    FEBRUARY 23, 2012 10:50AM

    By Jacob Freeze


    Topics: new york times

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2138 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Foxconn Raises Wages. Why?

    FEBRUARY 23, 2012 8:59AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: working conditions in china, foxconn raises wages, david barboza, iphone, manufacturing in china apple, foxconn technology, ipads, ipods, new york times, “how u.s. lost out on iphone work, charles duhigg, keith bradsher, repatriating jobs, onshoring jobs, jobs, manufacturing, economics, business

    • 0 Ratings
    • 248 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Conservatives Depending on Emotional Words to Persuade

    FEBRUARY 10, 2012 12:13AM

    By David Satterlee


    Topics: rational debate, quot, newt gingrich, new york times, neonatal center, majority party, gopac memo, frank luntz, emotional words

    • 3 Ratings
    • 371 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Thomas Friedman and the Law of Averages

    FEBRUARY 2, 2012 4:19PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: new york times, work, workers, employment, technology, self serve, grocery stores, cashiers, wait staff, restaurants, averages, mit, security, zappos, united states, egypt, china, mumbai, labor, unions, revolution, education, debt, average, thomas friedman

    • 4 Ratings
    • 601 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Dirty, Pretty Things Part 2

    JANUARY 29, 2012 9:28AM

    By Dennis Loo


    Topics: larry dignan, new york times, sweat shops, steve jobs, steve wozniak, china, ipad, mac, apple

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