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Hundreds of paddlers recently raced kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards in the Charles River for the annual Run of the Charles. That the water quality in the river has dramatically improved over the 36 years since the race first began is a tribute to the non-profit group that organizes the
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has "doubled down" on his call for increased government regulation of Facebook, Recode reports, teasing an interview with Cook that aired Friday, April 6 on MSNBC. Cook had already publicly called for a government crackdown on Facebook once before, telling an audience in Beijing,
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Facebook has taken out full-page print newspaper ads for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to say that he is "sorry" for allowing a leak of customer data. It's a case of the medium being more important than the message.
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It's not just President Donald Trump who thinks "fake news" is a problem. Even the Washington Post's Bob Woodward is warning that some reporters are becoming "emotionally unhinged" covering President Trump and crossing over into a "tone of ridicule."
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Give Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams the Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
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The opioid addiction issue is headed for the next stop on what is now a well-worn path: from public health crisis, to subject for award-winning and heart-tugging journalism, to payday for trial lawyers. The lawyers are poised to do to prescription drug companies, pharmacy chains, and drug distributors what they
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One way to make sense of the onslaught of political corruption investigations and prosecutions in recent years is to understand it as our legal system trying to draw the line between political misbehavior that is merely shady and that which is outright criminal. Instead of looking at each of these
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Harvard University had only just announced its next president before he came under attack — not for anything he did, but for who he is. That is, in the eyes of his critics, at least, a "white male."