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Pelosi ultimately pledged to support the work of the Agriculture Committee, whose members represent districts that receive 42% of the subsidies. "That was 'game over' right there," Kind says. "That committee is completely beholden to the status quo." The committee passed its bill without a dissenting vote.
Provided Britney Spears can keep herself out of jail or rehab, she’ll be able to take some satisfaction in pulling off a big comeback with “Blackout.” Spears’s first new album since 2003’s ?...
...critique of system-internal social change depends on a much more sophisticated argument than its detractors realize. According to the egalitarian, democratic principles that ground genuinely leftist projects, the type of political venture embodied by Obama and his ilk is dreadfully misguided. Because it relies on the logic of representation, the system-internal strategy endorses a conception of power that ultimately stultifies those it originally sought to serve. It expects the newly-empowered to represent their constituents’ interests completely. Against this, we must assert that the disconnect between power and the people—intrinsic to representative government?...
Medical school students receive little instruction about military medical ethics and are often unaware of a physician’s ethical duties under the Geneva Conventions, according to a new study by Harvard Medical School faculty. Of the 1,700 students surveyed around the country, 94 percent said that they...
In a further colorful twist, the lawyer claiming to represent Strachan is an Italian named Giovanni di Stefano. The Guardian newspaper once profiled di Stefano, a personal friend of Saddam Hussein's, describing the Italian's then client roster as "a veritable rogues' gallery of the most notorious criminals of...