Controversies
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The Rutgers suicide: Was the Internet to blame?
feature A freshman at Rutgers University committed suicide after his roommate surreptitiously filmed his dorm-room tryst with another man and streamed the footage live on the Internet.
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Syria: Is a ‘shot across the bow’ enough?
feature The U.S. response to Bashar al-Assad's use of sarin gas must be painful enough to serve as a true deterrent.
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Death in Kansas: An act of domestic terrorism?
feature Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion activist who allegedly gunned down Dr. George Tiller in church, was no lone nut—his rage was shaped by Christian extremist groups, which actually exulted in the assassination.
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Paul Ryan: Is it racist to blame poverty on culture?
feature Paul Ryan sparked outrage when he attributed the cause of poverty in the nations's inner cities to a culture of "men not working.”
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‘Climategate’: Is global warming a hoax?
feature In the wake of e-mails published by an anonymous hacker into the computers of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, questions about the validity of man-made global warming resurface.
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John Roberts
feature How will he steer the Supreme Court?
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Iraq
feature A new argument for staying the course.
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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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Murder in Washington: Part of a frightening pattern?
feature With the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns, a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Department of Homeland Security's warning about right-wing extremists now seems prescient.
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The auto industry: Does Detroit deserve a bailout?
feature Congress heard the desperate pleas of GM’s Rick Wagoner and other industry chiefs who say that without a $25 billion loan, their companies could collapse.
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Tenet’s memoir
feature Who’s to blame for 9/11 and Iraq?
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Alito
feature Supreme Court nominee on the hot seat.
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Iraq
feature Is the war still winnable?
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Controversy of the week
feature Subsidized health care: How poor is needy?
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