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Archives for December 2014

Politics
How residency programs are training doctors to waste moneyHow residency programs are training doctors to waste money
Politics

Residents who train in high-cost areas of the country are still high-cost doctors decades after graduation.

By Sarah Kliff
archives
It doesn’t matter if torture worked. It’s still wrong.It doesn’t matter if torture worked. It’s still wrong.
archives

Why there is no place for torture in a free society.

By Amanda Taub
World Politics
The Senate report proves once and for all that torture didn’t lead us to Osama bin LadenThe Senate report proves once and for all that torture didn’t lead us to Osama bin Laden
World Politics

The Senate Intelligence torture report blows the theory that torture caught bin Laden out of the water.

By Zack Beauchamp
World Politics
Map: The 54 countries that helped the CIA with its torture-linked rendition programMap: The 54 countries that helped the CIA with its torture-linked rendition program
World Politics

The agency’s torture program was even bigger than the Senate report suggests.

By Max Fisher
World Politics
The disastrous flaw at the heart of the CIA’s torture programThe disastrous flaw at the heart of the CIA’s torture program
World Politics

The CIA torture program was designed from the beginning to fail.

By Max Fisher
World Politics
16 absolutely outrageous abuses detailed in the CIA torture report16 absolutely outrageous abuses detailed in the CIA torture report
World Politics

Interrogators waterboarded one detainee at least 183 times.

By Dylan Matthews
World Politics
This is the single most damning sentence about the CIA’s torture policyThis is the single most damning sentence about the CIA’s torture policy
World Politics

An absolutely devastating detail from the new Senate report on torture.

By Zack Beauchamp
World Politics
The huge new Senate report on CIA torture, explainedThe huge new Senate report on CIA torture, explained
World Politics

The report looks at what the CIA did during the Bush administration — and what the results were.

By Andrew Prokop
Science
Where Americans are using the most prescription painkillersWhere Americans are using the most prescription painkillers
Science

And other findings from a new report on opioids use.

By Julia Belluz
Climate
Obama sounded skeptical about the Keystone XL pipeline on the Colbert ReportObama sounded skeptical about the Keystone XL pipeline on the Colbert Report
Climate

“We’ve got to make sure that it’s not adding to the problem of carbon and climate change.”

By Brad Plumer
Culture
Bitch Planet is the feminist comic book we’ve all been waiting forBitch Planet is the feminist comic book we’ve all been waiting for
Culture

It’s one hell of an opening issue.

By Alex Abad-Santos
Health Care
If Obamacare’s biggest problem is Jon Gruber, Obamacare is doing greatIf Obamacare’s biggest problem is Jon Gruber, Obamacare is doing great
Health Care

That Jon Gruber’s comments are among the law’s worst liabilities right now speaks to how much brighter things are for Obamacare going into 2015 than they were going into 2014.

By Sarah Kliff
Politics
The economic threat to cities isn’t gentrification; it’s the oppositeThe economic threat to cities isn’t gentrification; it’s the opposite
Politics

Many urban neighborhoods are places of concentrated poverty, and it’s killing opportunity in the US.

By Danielle Kurtzleben
Business & Finance
McDonald’s is dying in the United States. Thank Chipotle.McDonald’s is dying in the United States. Thank Chipotle.
Business & Finance

Sales fall 4.6 percent thanks to “strong competitive activity.”

By Matthew Yglesias