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Aron Cramer: Japan, YouTube Moments and Energy Policy

President and CEO, BSR

The events of the past few days in Japan will provide many lessons about whether nuclear plants should operate in locations at risk of severe earthquakes, or whether we should have them at all. But the reality is that every form of energy we have relied upon over the past century presents risks. As tempting as it might be this week to eliminate nuclear as part of the future energy mix, that means eliminating a no-carbon fuel source that we may well need to stave off the slow motion disaster of climate change.

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Petraeus' Propaganda War on Congress: The Truth Behind His Testimony

Rep. Mike Honda, 03.16.2011

Represents the 15th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House

Twenty million dollars was spent on the war in Afghanistan just during Gen. David Petraeus's testimony to Congress this morning. This month, we are on track to spend more than $10 billion in Afghanistan. And for what?

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politics

Ian Murphy, Scott Walker Prank Caller, Mulling a Run For Congress

Jason Linkins, 03.16.2011

Editor, Eat the Press

So you've become famous for making a prank call that embarrassed Scott Walker and exposed how easy it is for some influence-peddlers to grab an audience with a prominent lawmaker. What do you do for an encore?

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world

The Fabrication of Bahrain's Shiite-Sunni Divide

Shirin Sadeghi, 03.16.2011

Host, New America Now; former producer, the BBC and Al Jazeera

The so-called sectarian divide of Bahrain is a manipulative simplification of a far greater divide: that of the colonially-installed government that has no connection with or compassion for the people of Bahrain.

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education

Uncommon Wisdom on Teaching

Arne Duncan , Angel Gurría and Fred van Leeuwen, 03.16.2011

Increasing teacher autonomy and participation in reform is vital not just to improving student outcomes but to elevating the teaching profession. We reject the prevailing wisdom that it can't be done.

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sports

How the Sacramento Kings Hope to Win While Losing

David Berri, 03.16.2011

Co-author, 'Stumbling on Wins'; Economics professor, Southern Utah University

The story taking place in Sacramento is quite familiar to those who study sports and economics.

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world

Israel: The Ground Shifts

MJ Rosenberg, 03.16.2011

Senior Foreign Policy Fellow, Media Matters Action Network

David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, is arguably the most influential Jewish American journalist. Over the years, he has written about Israel with some regularity -- but it's all changing for two reasons.

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living

How to Boost Your Retirement Confidence

Suze Orman, 03.16.2011

Host, "The Suze Orman Show"

I hear it in your voices and see it in your faces when you talk to me. Your fears about being able to retire comfortably and with dignity are weighing you down. It's hard to enjoy the present when you're worried about the future.

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politics

Democrats Play Some Offense

Chris Weigant, 03.16.2011

Political Writer and Blogger at ChrisWeigant.com

Democrats are pushing back on a few key issues, whatever their chances of legislative success happen to be -- the mortgage crisis, gay marriage, and taxing millionaires.

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entertainment

How Your Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize Pro-War Movies and Block Anti-War Movies

David Sirota, 03.16.2011

Newspaper columnist, radio host (AM760), bestselling author

Connections between the Pentagon and the entertainment industry, first intensified in the 1980s, continue to embed militarism in seemingly non-political products like video games and action movies.

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green

Removing Mercury and Other Toxics From the Air We Breathe

Lisa P. Jackson, 03.16.2011

EPA Administrator

The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards set the first-ever national safeguards to limit power plant releases of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, making this is one of the largest steps to protect our kids from air pollution in a generation.

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politics

Robert Gates' Budget Dance

Lawrence Korb, 03.16.2011

Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Why is the base defense budget higher than was projected and higher after Robert Gates made his reductions? The answer is simple. Most of the cuts he claimed credit for were not reductions.

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world

How Do We Respond to a Tragedy Like Japan's?

Christina Patterson, 03.16.2011

Writer and Columnist for The Independent

There are plenty of ways to prevent wars, accidents, and unmitigated disasters. But what do we do about the disasters where really no one has done anything wrong?

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politics

The Other Nuclear Threat

William Hartung, 03.16.2011

Director, Arms and Security Initiative, the New America Foundation

Though a meltdown at a nuclear power plant would be disastrous, an even more urgent threat is posed by the possibility of a nuclear weapon or weapon-making material falling into the hands of terrorists.

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green

The Adult Conversation About Nuclear Power Needs to Start

Robert L. Cavnar, 03.16.2011

Founder, DailyHurricane.com

Nuclear power is the only non-carbon energy source that has any hope of stemming the tide of oil and coal consumption. But it has its obvious inherent dangers. Japan uses because they have to. The same can be said for us.

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arts

Sugar and Spice and Everything Sliced: The Art of Jessica Harrison

Anne B. Kelly, 03.16.2011

Founder, Femalepersuasion.net

Harrison's ladies-in-peril give a sense familiarity of the precious with a tinge of hardcore gore.

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sports

Paid College Athletes: A Reasonable Compromise

Jalen Rose, 03.16.2011

ESPN/ABC studio analyst

Despite the fact very few student athletes ever have the opportunity to turn professional, the overwhelming time commitment leaves them with no way of generating any income. Here is a reasonable solution.

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politics

How Many Committees Does It Take to Wage a War on Women?

Nancy Keenan, 03.16.2011

President, NARAL

Recent and ongoing attacks on women's freedom and privacy by the anti-choice House leadership are so far-reaching and so extreme that they've been dubbed the "War on Women."

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health

When Doctors Judge Their Obese Patients

David Katz, M.D., 03.16.2011

Director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center

I met a woman who had been driven from any and all benefits that modern medicine might offer her by the cold and denigrating judgment offered her by almost every modern medical practitioner she had met.

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college

Higher Education's Dirty Little Secret

Arvind Ganesan, 03.16.2011

Director of the Business and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch

Western universities are undoubtedly under pressure to find financial support, but this does not mean they should allow abusive and corrupt foreign dictators, officials or their families launder their images in exchange for money.

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politics

Why Values-Voters Have Completely Failed

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 03.16.2011

Rabbi and writer

My Christian brothers and fellow social conservatives failed by adopting a narrow definition of values that centered almost exclusively on opposition to gay marriage and abortion to the exclusion of virtually everything else.

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media

Beyond Godzilla and 9/11

David Helvarg, 03.16.2011

President, Blue Frontier Campaign

Compare the global response to what's happening today in Japan and Libya to last year's earthquake in rural Pakistan or the ongoing killings and famines that have taken over two million lives in eastern Congo.

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politics

No Nukes Is Good Nukes

Robert Scheer, 03.16.2011

Editor of Truthdig.com, Author, 'The Great American Stickup'

I'll bet that if President Barack Obama had been with me on that trip to Chernobyl 24 years ago he wouldn't be as sanguine about the future of nuclear power as he was this week.

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green

Safety on the Cheap

Robert Reich, 03.15.2011

Fmr. Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, Aftershock: 'The Next Economy and America's Future'

Profit-making corporations have every incentive to underestimate the probabilities of potential disasters and lowball the likely externalized harms. This is why it's necessary to have such things as government regulators.

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politics

Trim Belly Fat Instantly! (Political Belly Fat, That Is)

Caren Z. Turner, 03.16.2011

CEO, Turner Government and Public Affairs; Board Member, The New Agenda

There are hundreds of federal programs already identified across every government agency that overlap or are duplicative, wasting taxpayer dollars each year. Just eliminating these redundancies would save billions.

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food

Breakfast Is Not So Gr-r-reat When Your Only Option Is Frosted Flakes

Kristin Wartman, 03.15.2011

Food Writer

Kellogg and other industry giants should do something about the hunger problem, but they shouldn't be filling already undernourished children with food that is nutritionally void at best.

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