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Hammond: Stop freaking about fracking

It's possibleThe news a few years ago that upstate New York is sitting on billions of dollars worth of natural gas should have bee...Read More

The unprecedented, improbable and indeed almost unimaginable global financial crisis has virtually put an end to the comfortable n...Read More

One of the burdens of our democracy is the power that repetition too often has over reality. Lobbies representing special interest...Read More

War is hell - and a ticket thereto - as Osama Bin Laden found. Still, outrageously, the question persists: Was it legal for the Na...Read More

'Counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession," it actually dropped last year and violent cr...Read More

As the sun rises in the east, the debt ceiling will be raised. Getting there, however, will be harrowing. Which is a good thing. ...Read More

This spring, roughly 2 million students will graduate from college and head off into the world with the hopeful anticipation of se...Read More

The Austrian satirist and newspaper editor Karl Kraus once penned a pithy phrase about the very institution he helped to shape: "J...Read More

If there's no other shoe - or pair of underwear - that drops over the next two years, Rep. Anthony Weiner will remain a top-tier c...Read More

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