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12 Days of Open Data to Get You Through the New Year

Matthew Rumsey & Peter Olsen-Phillips | Sunlight Foundation | December 20, 2013

In the weeks since Nov. 30, when federal agencies were supposed to comply with President Barack Obama’s open data executive order by providing a list of all the data they are holding, it has already become clear that the executive order is unearthing treasure troves of information that previously haven't been available or accessible. Read More »

CDC Director On Ebola: ‘The Window Of Opportunity Really Is Closing’

Maryn McKenna | WIRED | September 2, 2014

...Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave a lengthy press conference immediately after returning to the US from a visit to the Ebola zone. Frieden has shown in the past that he knows how to be outspoken in a very strategic way; yet even so, the urgency of his language, and his call for an immediate, comprehensive global response, was striking...

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Documents Reveal How Poultry Firms Systematically Feed Antibiotics To Flocks

Brian Grow, P.J. Huffstutter and Michael Erman | Reuters | September 15, 2014

Major U.S. poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realize, posing a potential risk to human health.  Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that some of the nation’s largest poultry producers routinely feed chickens an array of antibiotics – not just when sickness strikes, but as a standard practice over most of the birds’ lives...

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No Place To Hide: A Conservative Critique Of A Radical NSA

Conor Friedersdorf | The Atlantic | May 14, 2014

Glenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing...

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Salvadoran Farmers Successfully Oppose The Use Of Monsanto Seeds

Dahr Jamail | TruthOut | July 8, 2014

Farmers across El Salvador united to block a stipulation in a US aid package to their country that would have indirectly required the purchase of Monsanto genetically modified (GM) seeds.  Thousands of farmers, like 45-year-old farmer Juan Joaquin Luna Vides, prefer to source their seeds locally, and not to use Monsanto's GM seeds...

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The Brutal Bust In Next-Generation Biofuels In One Chart

Todd Woody | The Atlantic | April 23, 2014

The U.S. government finally faces the fact that we won't be powering our cars with corncobs any time soon.

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Vote All You Want. The Secret Government Won’t Change.

Jordan Michael Smith | The Boston Globe | October 19, 2014

The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon...

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Why The NSA Keeps Tracking People Even After They're Dead

Dustin Volz | Nextgov.com | July 24, 2014

You may be dead, but the U.S. government won't take you off its terrorist roster.
That's according to newly leaked internal guidelines from last year that reveal intimate details regarding the government's process for determining whether an individual should be designated as a possible terrorist suspect...

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