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The Economist

Published: 08/2/10

Will Obama Take On Prison Reform?

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(Aug. 2) -- The Obama administration has inherited two major wars and busied itself on the domestic front with health care reform and righting the economy. But while Congress last week passed a law to shrink the disparity in jail sentences for those caught with crack cocaine, the administration has yet to tackle the more systemic problems of the nation's criminal justice system. The Economist magazine recently examined America's criminal justice system, painting a gloomy picture (hat tip to Andrew Sullivan): Between 2.3m and 2.4m Americans are behind bars, roughly one in every 100 adults. ...

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Published: 07/20/10

Playboy's New Safe-for-Work Website

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(July 20) -- Attention all office workers: Playboy has launched a safe-for-work Internet site, thesmokingjacket.com. (Hat tip: Gawker.) While the site might not satisfy the needs of randy Interior Department employees (or, say, randy Securities and Exchange Commission employees), rest assured that on The Smoking Jacket, nude images are only a click or two away. The home page of the original Playboy site also features no nudity, but on the new site, one has to go slightly more out of one's way to reach nude pics any larger than thumbnails that appear at the end of stories. Still, The Smoking ...

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Published: 07/7/10

The Doctored Economist Cover: We All Live in a Photoshopped Age

By Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily

In a carefully calibrated lead editorial on the BP oil spill in its June 19 issue, The Economist declared with its usual voice-of-God authority, "Mr. Obama is not the socialist the right claims he is. . . . But his reaction is cementing business leaders' impression that he is indifferent to their concerns." Those are not sentiments likely to send anyone to the barricades. But what has triggered a press-box kerfuffle is the photograph of Barack Obama that the magazine chose to illustrate this anodyne commentary. It is a stark image of a solitary president looking down in thought on the shores ...

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Published: 10/30/08

The Economist & Financial Times Endorse Obama

By David Knowles - Politics Daily

Two of the world's most respected economic publications have both endorsed Sen. Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Read The Economist's nod here. And here's the big thumbs-up from The Financial Times. Not exactly two pillars of Socialist thought, mind you. ...

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