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Rohani: A survivor in the snake pit of Tehran
Rohani is the Beria of the Islamic Republic: He knows how to negotiate the pit of vipers that is Iranian politics.
Trusting in our new security state
No matter Edward Snowden's leaks, we’re stuck with the new surveillance status quo, and we have to adapt to it.
The price of ignoring climate change
Climate change endangers much of the world economy. Economists calculate that a 3.5°F rise in global temperature would reduce global gross domestic product by 1 percent
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One measure of our culture's disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus.
Rate rigging costs more than money
In cash terms, the manipulation of supposedly objective reference rates and prices is a petty crime: relatively small gains for a few and microscopic losses for many. Ethically, though, the tolerance of untrustworthy behaviour makes the industry look particularly bad.
What does Apple really owe taxpayers? A lot, actually.
Even as Apple sizzles in the Senate hot seat for alleged tax evasion and finds itself the object of a Justice Department investigation into price-fixing ebooks, the company still enjoys a vast reservoir of good faith with the American people
Weiner: As American as political redemption
Anthony Weiner, now running for mayor of New York, is the latest in a long line of disgraced officials seeking not only absolution, but political resurrection from voters.MOST COMMENTED
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