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In Boston attack, a reminder of the difficulty in foiling terrorist plots
By Scott Wilson and Peter Finn After nearly a dozen years of foiled plots, the United States on Monday suffered the first large-scale bombing since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, opened an era of heightened security affecting nearly every … Continue reading
Lines Are Being Drawn In Hip-Hop & Rick Ross Is The First Casualty
by Dimas S. You know whom I kind of feel bad for? Rocko. Dude, who’s a C-class rapper, at best, has the hottest song of his life and all of the track’s momentum is getting killed by a single line … Continue reading
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5 Ways Our Tax Code Benefits the Rich and Screws Everyone Else
By Travis Waldron Happy tax day! Today is Tax Day, the day on which federal and state taxes are due for all Americans. Republicans have, of course, spent the year since Tax Day 2012 arguing that tax rates are too … Continue reading
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Tagged economy, money, politics, Ronald Reagan, Tax Day, Tax law, Tax rate, taxes, United States
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Dish Network to make $25.5 billion Sprint bid
By Kim Hjelmgaard Dish Network is launching a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel. The offer is an attempt to scupper Softbank of Japan’s acquisition of the major U.S. wireless carrier. Dish said it’s offer is superior to the Japan … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Charlie Ergen, Dish Network, economy, New York, Softbank, Sprint, Sprint Nextel, technology, wireless
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Now Is The Time To End Gun Violence
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Tagged Aurora, Colorado, congress, Connecticut, gun violence, guns, legislation, Newtown, politics, Sandy Hook, United States, violence, Weekly Address, White House
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What the U.S. Can Learn From Africa’s Booming Economy
Given continued economic weakness in the U.S., it’s easy to imagine that the rest of the world remains similarly stuck. But there is one region of the world that is showing signs of economic strength in new and unexpected ways. … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, business, economy, money, Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia
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Why Americans Are So Ignorant — It’s Not Only Fox News, There Are Some Understandable Reasons for it
By Lawrence Davidson In 2008, Rick Shenkman, the Editor-in-Chief of the History News Network, published a book entitled Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter. In it he demonstrated, among other things, that most Americans … Continue reading
Twinkies Are Coming Back: The Metropoulos Brothers On the Brand
It’s hard to imagine Twinkies, Sno-Balls, and other Hostess products dying. After all, preservatives have given them a shelf life that rivals that of fine wine. But last fall it seemed as if the spongy, sickly-sweet confections would disappear from … Continue reading
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Never Say ‘Never Again’
Our foolish obsession with stopping the next attack. By Juliette Kayyem There will be no politicians at the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. They are no longer invited. Organizers of the memorial have now … Continue reading →