5 days ago by J.E. Robertson

Conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives have fought hard to make the public option, and therefore healthcare reform broadly, both less effective and more expensive. How and why they did so is puzzling: while claiming they wanted to contain costs, they went about attacking the most sal ...

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10 days ago by staff

Intellectual property rights are complicating and expanding at an unprecedented rate. Now, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, lawyers are writing contracts that require artists to sign over all potential distribution and marketing rights for their work, “across the universe” and “in perpetuity” ...

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11 days ago by J.E. Robertson

The push to ensure full civil rights equality for gays marked a major milestone last week with the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Though Republicans opposed the measure so aggressively they voted in large numbers against funding the national defense in order to deny the e ...

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11 days ago by J.E. Robertson

Healthcare Reform Two Senate Democrats have pledged not to aid Republicans in blocking a full Senate vote in healthcare reform legislation. That moves the Democratic majority closer to the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster and bring the bill to a floor vote that will require only 50 votes plus o ...

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14 days ago by Webb Tisch

John McCain, the Arizona Republican who ran against Barack Obama in last year’s presidential election, today introduced in the Senate the “Internet Freedom Act”, in a brazen bid to make the internet far less free for the average web surfer. The bill would bar the FCC from enacting regulations that w ...

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15 days ago by Andrew

...is Arte's Das Gesetz von Las Vegas. This is a series of five two-hour documentaries about real criminal cases in Las Vegas. I watched the fourth installment online (HT A.M.; thanks for the links!) and was deeply impressed. The fifth...

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16 days ago by Andrew

On Arte +7, you can still watch a documentary about a murder case in Las Vegas called 'Das Gesetz von Las Vegas' (g) here. We see real public defenders and real prosecutors gearing up for a case involving a nutty 70-year-old man who stabbed someone to death in an old folks' home. Pretty fascinating ...

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19 days ago by Joshua Stanton

William Thomas Massie’s nightmares almost always begin in a dusty prison cell. His arms are lashed behind his back, and North Korean guards are karate-chopping his neck, kicking his groin and ankles, and smashing his face with fists and rifle butts. The frigid room is illuminated only by tannin-tint ...

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22 days ago by Eva Scherson

Financial regulatory reform cannot wait. It must be strict, it must be cohesive and responsible. It must help return the American economy to the days when investors could invest in something, and have a fair chance of gauging its value and its prospects for a change in value. Wall Street’s investmen ...

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26 days ago by Webb Tisch

Between 200,000 and 250,000 people are estimated to have gathered in Washington, DC, to demand action to ensure equal rights for homosexual Americans and other groups. The march was organized to demand full equal rights for same-sex couples and hate-crimes protection for homosexual victims. The rall ...

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