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Climate change: Will Obama’s emissions edict help?
feature The president announced a wide-ranging plan to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
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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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Gun control: Has Newtown already been forgotten?
feature Three months after Newtown, meaningful gun-control legislation seems doomed to failure.
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Obamacare: Is the program already in trouble?
feature The White House announced a one-year delay in the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate.
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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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Obama: Did he damage his credibility over Syria?
feature With a “slip of the tongue” Secretary of State John Kerry may have not only averted war, but also saved the Obama presidency.
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Rand Paul: What did he achieve with his filibuster?
feature The GOP senator's 13-hour talking filibuster pushed the administration to clarify its drone policy.
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Working from home: Is it really more productive?
feature The CEOs of two struggling companies, Yahoo and Best Buy, have decreed that employees will no longer be able to work from home.
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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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The fiscal cliff: What if negotiations fail?
feature All told, $503 billion could be siphoned out of the economy, which could throw the still-weak U.S. economy back into recession.
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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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Newtown: Violence, video games, and mental illness
feature It’s time to look hard at “America’s culture of violence,” including movies, music, and video games.
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Obamacare: Does California prove it can work?
feature Last week, California revealed that the premiums insurers will charge customers through its exchange are “surprisingly low.”
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Voting: Should ex-felons regain the right to cast ballots?
feature Attorney General Eric Holder denounced state laws that restrict convicted felons from voting after they’re released from jail.
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