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The economy: Free-market capitalism, RIP
feature The meltdown of the economy has upended all our assumptions about free-market capitalism.
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Gay marriage: How will the Supreme Court rule?
feature In March, the court will consider challenges to the constitutionality of both the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8.
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Climate change: Why aren’t more people alarmed?
feature A new U.N. report states with near certainty that humans are the force behind climate change.
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Drones: Has the U.S. committed war crimes?
feature Two new reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are challenging the myth that drones kill only terrorists.
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The Sochi Games: A disaster for Putin?
feature Vladimir Putin wanted the Sochi Winter Olympics to be “a showcase of modern Russia.”
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Controversy of the week
feature Iraq: It's in the GOP's hands—for now
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The economic crisis: On Main Street, fear leads to frugality
feature Consumers, even the superwealthy ones, are closing up their wallets and altering their spending behavior.
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The Tea Partiers: Who are they, and why are they angry?
feature What a new CBS/New York Times poll revealed about the demographic makeup of the Tea Party movement.
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The military: Do women belong in combat?
feature Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced his decision to end the long-standing ban on female troops serving in combat roles.
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Star Wars: Why did the U.S. shoot down a satellite?
feature It was a story that could have ended very badly, said Mona Charen in National Review Online. Some 153 miles overhead, the
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Margaret Thatcher: A conflicted legacy
feature Together with Reagan, the British leader—who died this week at age 87—engineered the conservative revolution of the 1980s.
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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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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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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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