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Last November, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly closed a three-year antitrust investigation into Monsanto, the biotech giant whose genetic traits are embedded in over 90 percent of America’s soybean crop and more than 80 percent of corn. Despite a splash of press coverage when the investigation was initially announced, its termination went mostly unreported. The DOJ released no written public statement. Only a brief press release from Monsanto conveyed the news.

(Others, including Michael Moore, Mark Bowden and CNN's Peter Bergen, have praised the film.) This spirited and often heated division partly stems from the specific way “Zero Dark Thirty” presents its wrenching scenes of torture – that is, with no ...

Sources told Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine that “David Clark, the executive producer in charge of Fox's weekend coverage, gave producers instructions not to talk about gun-control policy on air.” It's also worthwhile to note that while Fox ...

Now in New York magazine, Gabriel Sherman reports that Lott has not heard from any bookers at Fox News, and that Fox News.com declined to run his most recent column, on Newtown. “It's very unusual for them not to run one of my pieces,” he told New ...

Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine reports that David Clark, an executive producer in charge of the weekend coverage, instructed producers to stay away from the topic — much to their chagrin. Sherman writes: “This network is not going there,” Clark ...

Just as important will be developing what Internet scholar Rebecca MacKinnon calls “a basic values framework” for ICANN, one that safeguards certain freedoms for Internet users regardless of what is decided by bureaucrats in closed-door meetings.

Just as important will be developing what Internet scholar Rebecca MacKinnon calls “a basic values framework” for ICANN, one that safeguards certain freedoms for Internet users regardless of what is decided by bureaucrats in closed-door meetings.

Citing McCartney as one of many examples at the time, the New York Times writer Jason DeParle reported that “calls for racial reconciliation have become commonplace throughout much of the religious right,” with many conservative Christian leaders ...

The combination of hysterical rhetoric, small armies of lobbyists and pundits, and the proliferation of billionaire-backed front groups with names like the “Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget” is not a novelty in Washington. It happens whenever ...