Controversies
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Health reform: Now the fight gets real
feature Some of the most popular consumer protections provided by Obamacare kicked in last week, as the White House and congressional Republicans resumed the battle for public perception of the changes.
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Penn State: Should it lose football for a year?
feature Penn State officials knew about the repeated molestation allegations against Sandusky and covered them up for more than a decade.
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Romney: Can a businessman fix the economy?
feature The Obama campaign is targeting a new line of attacks on Romney’s business background.
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‘Obamacare’: What is Romney’s alternative?
feature Romney caused an uproar when he told “Meet the Press” that there were things in the Affordable Care Act he favored.
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A death in Tehran: Is it moral to kill Iran's scientists?
feature The deputy director of the Natanz uranium-enrichment plant is the fifth Iranian nuclear scientist to die a violent, mysterious death.
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Football: Is Seau's death ‘a tipping point’?
feature Junior Seau didn’t just kill himself last week, “he probably killed football itself.”
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Health care: Will the Supreme Court judge fairly?
feature Before last week’s Supreme Court hearings, most legal experts assumed the health-care law would be upheld.
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Obama: Did his appointments violate the Constitution?
feature The President's recess appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board have raised the ire of Republicans, who say the Senate was not really in recess.
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Trayvon Martin: The meaning of a teen’s tragic death
feature Once again, we have been given heartbreaking proof “of the ongoing peril of being young, black, and male in this country.”
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The Supreme Court: Did Obama try to bully the justices?
feature The president's public caution to the Supreme Court unleashed a flurry of opinion.
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Technology: Is it making addicts of us all?
feature Next year, for the first time, “Internet use disorder” will be listed in the appendix of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Health-care reform: Where Obama went wrong
feature President Obama’s grand plan to remake the entire health-care system has bogged down in Congress, and his August deadline for passage is dead.
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The space program: Is Mars the next logical step?
feature Mars may have trapped frozen water and traces of primitive life forms. Should we be satisfied with unmanned probes or rise to the challenge of sending up astronauts?
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The CIA’s secret plan: Did Cheney commit a crime?
feature Dick Cheney has come under scrutiny for ordering the CIA not to tell Congress about a post-9/11 plan to assassinate al Qaida operatives with paramilitary hit teams.
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