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Congress' Old-Media Habit: $1.2 Million a Month on News and Research

(July 21) -- One group of people not contributing to the erosion of paid newspaper subscriptions: our duly elected representatives and their staffs. The hundreds of line items for old-media purchases are among the many clues to Congress' news habits that AOL News spotted in its close reading of the House's last three...

Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety

(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to...

Sarah Palin Hits New Low in Poll

(Feb. 11) -- Just when she starts to hear warm words from some unlikely quarters, a new survey reveals cold, hard statistics about the public's view of Sarah Palin. After days of jokes about her palm reading at the Tea Party convention last Saturday, no less than Washington Post columnist David Broder -- who's been called...

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