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9 chats with top true-crime authors
In 2012, writers pondered murder and mayhem across the globe and across centuries.
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Brazil: 11 books to read before you go
The 11 travel books that The Lonely Planet suggests you read before arriving in Brazil.
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Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks
Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."
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Swimming: 8 facts – trivial and not – from 'Swim'
From author and journalist Lynn Sherr's new book 'Swim,' here are 8 facts about the history of humans in the water
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10 best books of March, 2012, according to Amazon's editors
The editors at Amazon pick their 10 favorite titles for March, 2012.
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Chapter & Verse
Doris Kearns Goodwin on her bestselling books and the movie adaptation of 'Lincoln'Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about her book 'Team of Rivals,' and what it was like to see her work come to life in Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln.'
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9 chats with top true-crime authors
In 2012, writers pondered murder and mayhem across the globe and across centuries.
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The Oath
New Yorker writer and CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin offers an astute and thorough analysis of the relationship between the Obama White House and the John Roberts-led Supreme Court.
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Global News Blog
Good Reads: American manufacturing, Apple's new CEO, and a father-son journey to meet two presidentsA round-up of this week's long-form good reads include takes on America's manufacturing power, how religion is faring in the US, and the power of seeing a son in a new light.
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Hail to the neologizers in chief
US presidents – and one president in particular – seem to have a knack for coining new terms.
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Opinion: Washington needs more people like Senator Warren Rudman (+video)
Sen. Rudman, who passed away last week, was perhaps best known for his legislation on deficit reduction. But he also fought tirelessly for campaign finance reform and citizen-funded elections. And he was willing to work across the aisle and stand up to his own Republican party to do it.
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Superstorm was super-test for state and local leaders
Experts have given New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg good reviews for their performances after hurricane Sandy.
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Energy Voices
Natural gas: Why are export terminal permits necessary?Holland explains the story behind why the Department of Energy needs to approve the building of export terminals for liquified natural gas.
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Chapter & Verse
Romney's loss: How he compares to other presidential also-ransWriter Scott Farris, author of 'Almost President,' discusses how the former presidential nominee stacks up against other men who lost their bid for the highest office in the land.
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Opinion: It's almost Nov. 6. Do you know what books Obama and Romney have been reading?
John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson – many of America's presidents were avid readers, and that informed their decisions. It gave them critical perspective. Americans should be curious about the reading habits of President Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Vox News
A 4th presidential debate? Larry King to moderate third-party candidate forum.In the Oct. 23 debate, to be livestreamed over the Internet, independent presidential candidates are expected to take on a wider range of issues, including diminished civil liberties and the drug war.
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan's book is a stunning portrait of Edward Curtis, the photographer who made it his mission to photograph Native Americans.
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Robert Reich
Presidential debate: the questions they should (but won't) ask Obama, RomneyWhat would happen if Robert Reich moderated a presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? Reich offers his thoughts on what questions Romney and Obama should be asked in Wednesday's presidential debate.
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Robert Reich
Mitt Romney: A warrior for the wealthy?MItt Romney represents an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power that’s undermining our economy and destroying our democracy, Reich writes.
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Chapter & Verse
Garfield: America's most obscure president may also have been one of its bestBiographer Candice Millard talks about the courageous, independent, largely forgotten US president – James Garfield – whose term was cut short by an assassin's bullet.
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Notable moments in convention history
A look back at US political conventions that have encompassed a wide spectrum of ideologies.
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The Daily Reckoning
Defense spending and the declining 'bang' for the buckDoes the US really need to spend more money on an M1 tank that won't be a part of the next war?
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What everyone is saying about NASA's Mars rover landing (+video)
The successful landing of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on the Red Planet marks a historic moment in the history of planetary science. Here's what people are saying about it.
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Opinion: NCAA crackdown shouldn't stop at Penn State: BCS uses students like gladiators
The Penn State scandal isn't the only injustice to plague college football. In fact, that damaging lack of transparency is endemic. The NCAA should continue to clean house by taking control of the Bowl Championship Series, which, driven by greed, uses college players like gladiators.
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Where They Stand
When it comes to picking presidents, voters may do as well as academics.
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Brazil: 11 books to read before you go
The 11 travel books that The Lonely Planet suggests you read before arriving in Brazil.
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'Dare mighty things'
A Christian Science perspective: The Mars rover Curiosity is scheduled to land on Mars on Aug. 6. The author, who was involved in the mission of the Mars rover Spirit in 2004, shares her perspective.
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Robert Reich
Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and the New Gilded AgeThe 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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Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks
Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."
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Decoder Wire
George W. Bush presidential portrait is unveiled. Who paid for it? (+video)Though no longer the 'haphazard affair' it once was, the process of creating a presidential portrait like George W. Bush's is not an easy process. But taxpayers don't pick up the tab.
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