Articles of Interest
November 27, 2007, 1:00am

Counting is important: anyone who grew up watching Sesame Street knows that. Our friends in the Bush administration must have missed that part of the lesson. They hate to count. Especially when the results might make them look bad.

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November 26, 2007, 1:00am

Earlier this year, using the clout that only major broadcast networks seem capable of mustering, CBS News contacted the governments of all 50 states requesting their official records of death by suicide going back 12 years.

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November 26, 2007, 1:00am

This weekend, Australians went to the polls and delivered an emphatic victory for Labor leader Kevin Rudd, while handing the party of conservative Bush ally John Howard its “worst election defeat in its 63-year history.”

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November 26, 2007, 1:00am

When French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States in the 19th century, he marveled at the country’s “division of the influence of the press.” “In America there is scarcely a hamlet that has not its newspaper,” … Read more »

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November 23, 2007, 1:00am

“What were they smoking?” asks the cover of the current issue of Fortune magazine. Underneath the headline are photos of recently deposed Wall Street titans, captioned with the staggering sums they managed to lose.

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November 21, 2007, 1:00am

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.

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November 21, 2007, 1:00am

“[T]he world’s scientists have spoken, clearly and in one voice,” said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on the most recent report of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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November 21, 2007, 1:00am

There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power.

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November 20, 2007, 1:00am

MICHAEL MUKASEY has been confirmed as attorney general. But the profound moral, legal and constitutional issues raised at his Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are unresolved.

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November 19, 2007, 1:00am

Over the past seven years, crude oil prices have exploded from around $30 a barrel to nearly $100. With prices that high, you don’t need to give an oil company executive much financial incentive to drill for more fossil fuel. … Read more »

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