Controversies
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Health care: The return of ‘death panels’
feature Last week President Obama authorized new Medicare rules that include paying for end-of-life consultations between doctors and patients—if the patient wants to have that talk.
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The banking crisis: Is nationalization the only way out?
feature Secretary Timothy Geithner plans to pump $1.5 trillion into failing banks, yet experts say that major U.S. banks already have $2 trillion in bad debt, and future losses in the financial system might raise the amount to as much as $7 trillion.<
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Drones: Will a Pentagon takeover make a difference?
feature The CIA appears to be getting out of the drone business.
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Terrorism: The lessons of Times Square
feature After the bomb failed to explode, Faisal Shahzad managed to elude FBI agents and board a plane to Dubai, even though he’d been placed on the no-fly list.
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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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Terrorism: Is Cheney winning the rhetoric war?
feature Cheney railed against the Obama's war policy last Sunday. Are the former vice president's arguments 'crazy' - or surprisingly logical?
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