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June 10 - Time to Tread on the Insurrectionists; Senator Collins Helps the Trucking Lobby Exploit and Exhaust Truckers; Wall Street Buys Members of the Congressional Black Caucus

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May 27 - Europe Lurches to the Right; Ignoring Growing Risks at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants; Again, the Intersection of Mental Health and Easy Access to Automatic Firearms

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April 16 - Ukraine on the Brink of Civil War Thanks to Putin; The Smoking Gun Revealing the Cost Culture and Cover-Up at GM; Bloomberg Takes on the NRA

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December 31 - The Founding Fathers and Gun Control; The Fear of Terrorists While Accepting Gun Massacres; The Son of a Victim of a Gun Massacre

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November 4 - Snowden's Manifesto for the Truth; Mental Illness and Easy Access to Assault Weapons; Cruel and Unusual Cuts in Food Stamps

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September 11 - The Just Declassified NSA Surveillance Documents; Why Colorado Voted to Recall Pro-Gun Control State Senators; The Author of "Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and The Making of the Modern Middle East

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April 25 - What Can We Praise About George W. Bush?; Hysteria Over Terror While Accepting Daily Gun Deaths; The Corporate Takeover of Food

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April 18 - The Undemocratic Senate; The Understaffed OSHA and the 4,500 Workplace Deaths Per Year; A Report on How the U.S. Sought Revenge Through Torture

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April 17 - How Secure is Our Homeland?; A Watered-down Gun Bill Shot Down in the Senate; Is the New Pope a More Appealing Salesman for the Same Old Product?

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April 3 - Nuclear Sabre Rattling as North Korea Closes Border; How No Child Left Behind has Led to Cheating; Insurance Giants could Sabatoge Obamacare

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