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2013/06/19 12:15
2013/06/19 12:15
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Men have been steadily disappearing from the workforce for more than half a century. In the 1950s, nearly every man in his prime working years was in the labor force, a category that includes both...
2013/06/19 12:15
2013/06/19 12:15
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2013/06/19 11:14
2013/06/19 11:14
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WASHINGTON – Since Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 40 years ago, anti-abortion activists have successfully passed legislation regulating and restricting the right...
2013/06/19 09:38
2013/06/19 09:38
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the international coalition formally...
2013/06/19 09:35
2013/06/19 09:35
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Billionaire Carlos Slim, age 73, says workers - those in developed economies, anyway - are at their prime in their 60s. "When you have an industrial economy like in the past where people ... do a lot...
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2013/06/19 08:06
2013/06/19 08:06
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President Barack Obama plans to press for further cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals in a speech in Berlin today, according to an administration official. Obama’s address at the Brandenburg...
2013/06/19 02:20
2013/06/19 02:20
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President Obama has had difficulty finding his footing and has been late to the game in defending federal intelligence surveillance programs as a valuable weapon for thwarting terrorist plots,...
2013/06/19 02:04
2013/06/19 02:04
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The head of the National Security Agency said U.S. surveillance programs had helped disrupt more than 50 possible attacks since September 11, 2001, as sympathetic members of Congress also defended the...
2013/06/18 23:20
2013/06/18 23:20
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President Obama has had difficulty finding his footing and has been late to the game in defending federal intelligence surveillance programs as a valuable weapon for thwarting terrorist plots,...
2013/06/18 21:45
2013/06/18 21:45
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2013/06/18 19:27
2013/06/18 19:27
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That said, his expertise, professional accomplishments and his service to Obama are likely to earn him serious consideration for the top Fed post. Since leaving the Obama White House in 2010, Summers...
2013/06/18 18:25
2013/06/18 18:25
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Rohani “believes in the same pragmatic policies as Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who has been in alliance with reformist forces in recent years”, wrote Najmeh Bozorgmeh, the FT’s...
2013/06/18 15:09
2013/06/18 15:09
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The American Dream isn't dead. It's just moved to Denmark. Now, we like to think of ourselves as a classless society, but it isn't true today. As the Brookings Institution has pointed out, America...
2013/06/18 14:19
2013/06/18 14:19
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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) voted for the bill in committee but could still reject the final legislation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) It hasn’t been the best week for comprehensive immigration reform. David...
2013/06/18 14:16
2013/06/18 14:16
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WASHINGTON — Judith Mayer Lynn, uninsured and battling breast cancer, should be a fan of the Affordable Care Act. Instead, she barely knows about it. The 56-year-old Nevada woman was unaware of...
2013/06/18 10:27
2013/06/18 10:27
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... in Siberia is the tip of an iceberg compared with Russia's structural problems. The Russian economy has slowed substantially over the last twelve months and its growth model has been...
2013/06/18 05:06
2013/06/18 05:06
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Yves here. While readers may think development policy has limited relevance to US and advanced economy readers, the IMF and World Bank have been and continue to be vehicles to make the world,...
2013/06/17 21:53
2013/06/17 21:53
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WASHINGTON — A fight is brewing over President Barack Obama's efforts to fill three vacancies on a single federal court that Republicans claim doesn't do enough work to merit them. Sen. Chuck...
2013/06/17 18:59
2013/06/17 18:59
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The debate over immigration will tell us a lot about the state of the national psyche. How do Americans feel about themselves and their nation? Are they confident or insecure? Do they want to go out...
2013/06/17 17:43
2013/06/17 17:43
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Doctors may be the only group that commands the prestige and standing to persuade the American public of the necessity and benefits of key health care cost-control reforms contained in the Affordable...
2013/06/17 10:13
2013/06/17 10:13
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The front table in Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op Bookstore has been a must stop for book browsers for book lovers since the early 1970s. It is always brimming with more than 100 newly published scholarly...