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Fracking decisions loom as study declaring it safe is withdrawn
A study hailed as clearing the reputation of the oil-extraction method known as fracking has ended up muddying the reputation of the scientist who oversaw it, and thrown a shadow on optimistic forecasts about the nation’s energy prospects.
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Read More »‘Active Design’ aims to turn workers into walkers
The day many Americans start working full-time is the day their health begins to deteriorate.
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Read More »Economic effect of Hurricane Sandy to touch construction industry
No natural disaster is complete until it touches off a debate among economists.
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Read More »Budgetary warfare on the edge of a ‘fiscal cliff’
The debate over the approaching “fiscal cliff,” the overworked term for the drastic belt-tightening imposed by the federal Budget Control Act of 2011, has misleadingly centered on raising taxes on the wealthiest 2 percent of wage-earners.
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Read More »Decrying the loss of ‘industrial commons’
When government invests in a company that goes bankrupt, critics haul out the predictable indictment: Politicians don’t understand business, and shouldn’t try to pick winners and losers in the competition that is capitalism.
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Read More »Public opinion, budget woes drive Romney ‘switcheroo’ on foreign policy
The return of the man former President Bill Clinton nicknamed “old moderate Mitt” to this week’s foreign policy debate reflects the climate of public opinion and the realities of a $16 trillion debt load as much as it demonstrates Mitt Romney’s presidential ambitions.
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Read More »Benghazi attack: Ready for a replay Monday night
The last presidential debate of 2012 was supposed to be a sideshow.
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Read More »A fact-checker joins the debate
The toil fact-checking requires is paying off.
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Read More »Middle class: This campaign is for you
As they prepared for Tuesday night’s presidential debate, President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney no doubt have had an image seared onto their brains, and perhaps onto their note cards: The scowling American middle class is sitting there, restlessly watching, drumming fingers on the table, waiting to hear the next class-saving promise.
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