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- Banks seek breathing room with controversial credit relief trades http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-20/business/42235635_1_credit-relief-basel-committee-hedge-fund 3 comments
- The press-release conviction of a biotech CEO and its impact on research http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-23/national/42314943_1_intermune-scott-harkonen-actimmune 46 comments
- When computer programming was ‘women’s work’ http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-26/opinions/35268904_1_computer-science-young-women-grace-hopper 21 comments
- Poverty Drains Nutrition From Family Diet http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-02-21/news/36871700_1_food-insecurity-food-insecure-teen-diets 95 comments politics
- The myth about job-killing Obamacare http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-10-05/opinions/42747384_1_job-killer-obamacare-small-businesses 3 comments politics
- Popular mystery writer Anne Perry helped a friend murder her mother when she was in her teens http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-30/entertainment/40292559_1_pauline-s-christchurch-anne-perry 12 comments books
- For Rep. Ted Yoho, government shutdown is ‘the tremor before the tsunami’ - Washington Post http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-10-04/politics/42717248_1_government-shutdown-freshman-congressman-tremor 5 comments politics
- Mitch McConnell’s vanishing act [Washington Post]; Why Mitch McConnell is the man who could end the shutdown, and why he can't. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-10-04/opinions/42698082_1_matt-bevin-ted-cruz-mitch-mcconnell 3 comments politics
- Supreme Court case could give wealthy donors more latitude in elections. “They very well may set the stage to strike all contribution limits. That would take us back to the 1870s and the era of robber barons.” http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-10-03/politics/42659299_1_election-spending-limits-contribution-limits-candidates 4 comments politics
- The Dominican Republic’s top court had stripped citizenship from thousands of people born to migrants who came illegally from Haiti.The decision cannot be appealed, and it affects all those born since 1929. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-26/world/42423002_1_haitian-migrants-dominicans-citizenship 7 comments worldnews
- Alex Rodriguez: Slumlord http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-24/local/40862470_1_affordable-housing-housing-director-complexes 10 comments baseball
- JPMorgan Chase subsidiary to pay $410 million penalty in electricity pricing scheme http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-30/business/40887006_1_jpmorgan-chase-morgan-ventures-energy-corp-commodities-business 4 comments politics
- Does American aid ($1.4 billion per year) make it complicit to Egyptian army's acts of violence http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-01/opinions/40956369_1_aid-claim-assistance-muslim-brotherhood 8 comments moderatepolitics
- Israel risks loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in EU research grants over settlement row http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-09/world/41211189_1_israel-s-settlements-east-jerusalem 204 comments worldnews
- Greek unemployment rate hits 27.6% in May http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-08/world/41179135_1_27-6-percent-rate-greece-s 23 comments worldnews
- Caron Butler had a crazy childhood. This is a long article but a good one. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-02-17/sports/36899957_1_police-officer-racine-neighborhood 10 comments nba
- Know thyself, America "Beginning in 1940, a small percentage of households was required to fill out what came to be the “long form.” And since 2005, this has been replaced by the American Community Survey..." http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-12/opinions/40534842_1_american-community-survey-conservatives-government 5 comments politics
- Al Jazeera Employees Quit Over Biased Egypt Coverage. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-08/lifestyle/40441808_1_news-channel-muslim-brotherhood-al-jazeera-journalists 6 comments worldnews
- Norquist immediately replied: "We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat." http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-06-30/news/35233959_1_tax-cuts-grover-norquist-republican-strategy 5 comments politics
- Families' Homes Foreclosed Yrs Ago, but Lenders Still Taking Them to Court - Lenders filing new motions in old foreclosures & hiring debt collectors to pursue leftover debt, court fees, lawyers’ fees & tens of thousands in interest that's been accruing for yrs. Most don’t know it’s coming. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-15/news/39990952_1_foreclosure-crisis-homeowners-rockville?1 37 comments politics
- Fbi pushing for backdoors into all software, and they cant protect the data they already have. (Bradley manning) http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-28/world/38885216_1_wiretap-proposal-companies 17 comments technology
- Women soldiers fought, bled and died in the Civil War, then were forgotten. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-29/local/38892753_1_women-soldiers-antietam-deborah-sampson 54 comments history
- Islamic law comes to rebel-held Syria http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-19/world/37840878_1_al-nusra-deir-aleppo 3 comments worldnews
- Karen Handel (R), ex-Komen exec at center of Planned Parenthood de-funding fiasco, running for Senate in Ga. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-17/national/39320501_1_karen-handel-komen-planned-parenthood 32 comments politics
- Apple CEO Tim Cook to propose a "dramatic simplification" of the US corporate tax laws next week in hopes that an estimated $1.7 trillion of overseas cash can make it back to the US. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-16/business/39303597_1_apple-ceo-tim-cook-tax-bills-tax-overhaul 3 comments politics
- Adam Kokesh Protest group plans July 4 march on Washington with loaded rifles http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-07/local/39082019_1_firearms-gun-regulations-lanier 4 comments worldnews
- Hospitals regularly save money by "medical repatriation" of undocumented workers, whereby an unconscious patient is flown to their home country without their consent. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-23/national/38745133_1_two-immigrants-federal-health-care-reform-hospitals 78 comments worldnews
- Allen Iverson struggles with life after basketball http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-19/sports/38666036_1_allen-iverson-sixers-nba-s 4 comments nba
- Kuwait media law proposes $1 million fines for insults to emir; "proposed rules will not stifle free expression and seek to elevate discourse in media" http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-10/business/38415063_1_emir-traditional-media-online-posts 5 comments worldnews
- “People who are shorter-lived tend to make less, which means that if you raise the retirement age, low-income populations would be subsidizing the lives of higher-income people.” http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-10/business/37605505_1_life-expectancy-eligibility-age-retirement-age 103 comments politics
- Pentagon defense contract awards surged 71 percent in March, even as automatic federal budget cuts started taking effect. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-07/business/38354232_1_pentagon-official-pentagon-programs-bae-systems 4 comments politics
- Reddit, what can we do to stop one of the most egregious sins in our nation's history: the permanent abduction and imprisonment of human beings without charges in Guantanamo Bay? http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-04-23/world/35230210_1_guantanamo-policy-guantanamo-bay-military-detention-center 3 comments politics
- Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-02/business/38220144_1_housing-recovery-housing-market-housing-officials 8 comments politics
- No-bid U.S. government contracts jump 9 percent, despite push for competition http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-17/business/37795352_1_contracts-federal-procurement-policy-federal-agencies 9 comments politics
- Break up the big banks: Washington Post Article by George Will (a conservative columnist) http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-08/opinions/36993798_1_community-banks-largest-banks-glass-steagall-act 73 comments politics
- End the war on terror and save billions http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-06/opinions/35673579_1_qaeda-world-war-ii-civil-war 58 comments politics
- Gun-control fights won’t solve the real issue. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-20/opinions/36018481_1_gun-owners-gun-safety-gun-control-fights 11 comments politics
- the 2012 U.S. homicide rate effectively the lowest in 100 years. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-19/lifestyle/35929227_1_homicide-rate-randolph-roth-gun-control 3 comments politics
- Fareed Zakaria - By looking around the world we can factor out mental illness and video games from the possible causes of our gun violence problem http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-19/opinions/35929057_1_gun-violence-gun-ownership-tough-gun-laws 118 comments politics
- Proposal to detect Dark Matter WIMPS from the Galactic Halo using an array of gold atoms and single stranded DNA. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-03/national/35623410_1_dark-matter-katherine-freese-detectors 3 comments science