Snowden leaks blur line between whistleblower and traitor
Debates over Edward Snowden focus on a single label but he is both whistleblower and scoundrel. Read about disclosures ranging from al Qaeda data to US eavesdropping on leaders, foreign leaders, and Pakistan’s nuclear sites, as discussed with Glenn Greenwald.
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Slate
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Iran
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Angela Merkel
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Snowden's disclosures and the line between public interest
Doyle McManus weighs Snowden and Greenwald in a debate over public interest versus national security. The column questions whether Snowden’s actions aid or threaten Americans and notes the complexity of his exile and motives while considering clemency and potential deals.
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Almanac highlights January 13 2014 facts and birthdays
Almanac notes January 13 2014 as the 13th day of the year with birthdays for figures such as Liam Hemsworth Trace Adkins and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It records Emile Zola buried in Paris Pantheon and recalls Michael Jordan’s 1999 NBA retirement with a 2001 return. The entry lists the 21 Nazi leaders tried at Nuremberg and the moon phase between January 7 and January 15.
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Sophie Tucker
Robert Stack
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Trace Adkins
Patrick Dempsey
Orlando Bloom
Nate Silver
Liam Hemsworth
Chicago Bulls
Michael Jordan
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Emile Zola
Nuremberg
Supreme Court weighs recess appointments and executive power
The court considers if Barack Obama made intra-session recess appointments when the Senate sat in pro forma sessions. The case questions whether the NLRB case in Yakima was valid without a proper quorum and whether the president can assert broad recess powers amid debates on constitutional boundaries. The argument situates the issue in a long history from 1789 to modern times and notes potential limits to presidential authority.
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Word of the Year 2013 is because
The American Dialect Society named because the 2013 Word of the Year. It beat slash as the runner up, reflecting its use to compress phrases like because science or because reasons. The column notes Hashtag was previously banished by Lake Superior State University.
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