Politics

At Any Price Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron

How Michael Pollan Inspired Zac Efron's Latest Movie

"When you have a lot of race cars and infidelity, it's hard to be an 'agenda film,'" writer/director Ramin Bahrani tells me.

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| Fri May. 3, 2013 9:26 AM PDT
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Unemployment Rate Hits a 4-Year Low, But Don't Get Too Excited

We're not out of the woods yet.

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| Fri May. 3, 2013 7:23 AM PDT
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Lethal Battlefield Robots: Sci-Fi or the Future of War?

Warbots don't exist yet, and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots hopes to keep it that way.

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| Fri May. 3, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Obama Administration Continues Blocking Access to Emergency Contraception

Reproductive rights groups oppose the administration's new position on Plan B.

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| Thu May. 2, 2013 9:46 AM PDT

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Expert: Obama's Housing Agency Nomination Is Good News for Poor People

The nomination of Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to head a key housing agency is good news for low-income borrowers.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 4:43 PM PDT

America's Fertilizer Keeps Blowing Up. It Doesn't Have To.

Europe and Australia long ago recognized the benefits of a fertilizer formula that doesn’t blow up. Here, the chemical industry fought back.

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| Thu May. 2, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Friend Who Had "Fling" With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the 3 Additional Suspects: "They All Idolized Jahar"

In an interview with Mother Jones, a woman who says she hooked up with Tsarnaev sheds light on him and his friends now in custody.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 1:06 PM PDT
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HBO's "Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden": Way Cooler Than "Zero Dark Thirty"

The HBO documentary is an exciting, informative ride that highlights the CIA "sisterhood" that was obsessed with hunting Osama bin Laden in the '90s.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 5:31 PM PDT
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Here's How the Rifle That Just Killed a 2-Year-Old Girl Is Marketed for Kids

Baby's first rifle? The Crickett Firearms website is down, but we've got their photo gallery of armed tykes right here.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 1:26 PM PDT

Don't Use Jason Collins As an Excuse to Blame Homophobia on Black People

A history lesson.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 5:55 PM PDT
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Will Andrew Cuomo Go the Distance on Post-Citizens United Campaign Reform?

Reformers are planning a six-week blitz to pass public financing in New York, the front line in the war on big-money politics.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 7:26 AM PDT

What the NRA's Millions Do—and Don't—Buy

Big money isn't the only secret to the National Rifle Association's success. Yet is it the key to defeating it?

By Alan Berlow and Gordon Witkin, Center for Public Integrity

 | Wed May. 1, 2013 6:00 AM PDT

Quick Reads: "Big, Hot, Cheap and Right" by Erica Grieder

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

Ed Markey Is On Track to Replace John Kerry—With the Help of the "Green Billionaire"

Markey will face Gabriel Gomez, an ex-Navy SEAL and businessman derided by Democrats as "Mitt Romney, Jr."

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 7:27 PM PDT
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How Michael Bloomberg Is Like Kanye West

Michael Bloomberg implies critics of the NYPD's stop and frisk policy just don't care about dead children.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 2:20 PM PDT
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How to Be a Good Neocon When It Comes to Syria

With Obama moving cautiously, some hawks are angling for a US invasion.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 11:12 AM PDT

Obama Is Right About Gitmo: It's Bad for Us All

Every day we fail to close the infamous prison is a day we admit defeat.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 9:34 AM PDT

Study: Budget Cuts Are Making Us Sick

A new study shows that austerity policies are causing ill health worldwide.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 8:32 AM PDT
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Florida Passes Law To Speed Up Executions

Florida can barely provide lawyers to death row inmates, but the legislature wants to kill them quicker anyway.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 8:45 AM PDT
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Can Obama Stop the Uprising at Gitmo?

Human rights advocates and now even one senator says the administration could end the hunger strike by resuming transfers of detainees out of Gitmo.

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| Fri Apr. 26, 2013 4:56 AM PDT