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It’s time to put people ahead of party

Customers check in at a US Airways ticket counter at Chicago's O'Hare airport on August 13, 2013. The US Justice Department and several states sued Tuesday to block the $11 billion merger between American Airlines and US Airways, saying it would reduce...

Bigger is not always better when it comes to airline mergers

File Photo: Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy march on Friday in the Bronx borough of New York City January 27, 2012. The NYPD says the stops assist crime prevention while opponents say they involve...

Why we shouldn’t champion the ‘stop-and-frisk’ decision as a victory just yet

President Barack Obama waves to a group of on-lookers while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Why Obama is entitled to his vacation time too

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Trayvon Martin case in the press briefing room at the White House in Washington, July 19, 2013. (Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters)

Obama, race, and the melting pot that is America

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (front) delivers signatures to the board of elections office in New York July 11, 2013. Spitzer, who is attempting a political comeback five years after resigning from office in a prostitution scandal, is leading...

There’s more at stake in NYC’s comptroller race than just Spitzer’s future

Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, to object to actions by House Republicans whom he and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., say are targeting D.C.'s home-rule...

D.C. mayor should veto city’s ‘living wage’ bill

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It’s not how much we’re eating, it’s what we’re eating

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Why we should legalize prostitution

File photo shows Dupont Circle Metro Station. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘Phantom Planter’ should have gotten permission