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The Monitor's View: Illinois and Greece as penitent cookers of books
The SEC exposes Illinois's misleading reports on pensions while Greece cleans up its financial data to help end the euro crisis. Clean accounting, like light on a dark street, helps eliminate financial deceit.
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Robert Reich Is US democracy for sale?
Unprecedented income inequality combined with unlimited campaign contributions means that now, more than ever, the democratic process is under the influence of a small number of very wealthy people. Here's how to stop it.
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Robert Reich Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and the New Gilded Age
The system that made Mitt Romney's fortunes at Bain Capital is the same one largely responsible for the greatest concentration of the nation’s income and wealth at the very top since the Gilded Age of the nineteenth century.
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Readers Write: The dangers of big banks and second-hand marijuana smoke
Letters to the Editor for the weekly print issue of July 2, 2012: When power is concentrated – as in big banks like Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase – expect some tyranny. Marijuana is an insidious drug, more harmful than many have been led to believe.
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Opinion: 'Elite' Supreme Court sides with science and juveniles
Justice Alito chided the Supreme Court majority for its 'elite vision' in striking down mandatory life sentences for juveniles convicted of murder. But the court based its decision on science – the science of adolescent brain development. Science is a kind of elitism that we need more of.
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Robert Reich Income inequality highlighted on Tax Day
Income inequality is at its worst in nearly a century, with the highest earners paying low tax rates in the face of a massive federal deficit and crumbling public services. To lessen income inequality, we must curb the political power of the very rich.
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Opinion: Conservative justices may hate Obamacare, but they should not overrule Congress
The Supreme Court's conservative justices deliberating on the health care law known as Obamacare should heed the historical example of Republican-appointed justice, Harlan Fiske Stone. He detested New Deal policies but argued the court had no right to overturn them.
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Free speech: Westboro church Supreme Court case tests First Amendment
A Supreme Court case challenging the Westboro Baptist Church anti-gay protests will test the limits of free speech, with First Amendment implications for other forms of expression such as Quran burning and racist demonstrations.
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Shallow historical roots for Sotomayor's public grilling
A Supreme Court confirmation hearing is a Washington tradition that seems as old as the Constitution – but isn’t.
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Opinion: Can Obama force you to buy health insurance?
Nothing in the Constitution allows the individual mandate he proposes.
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A balance between free speech and fear
Anthony Lewis follows the history of the First Amendment protections.
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A balance between free speech and fear
Anthony Lewis follows the history of First Amendment protections.
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