Artwork by Maurice Scott via the Prison Creative Arts Project. A good reason to do away with mandatory minimums? ASK THIS New research shows that racial disparities in federal sentencing can be traced back to the higher likelihood that prosecutors will charge blacks with offenses that carry mandatory minimum sentences. And one of the researchers -- a law professor at the University of Michigan -- writes that it may be easier to change the law than to change prosecutors.

Jerusalem (AP). Does God speak to the Republican National Committee? COMMENTARY Rather than more questions about Romney's taxes or Gingrich's adultery, debate moderators would be better off asking the candidates their views on a unanimously adopted RNC resolution stating that God wants a one-state solution for Israel, writes Paul Pillar.

Romney on income inequality and 'quiet rooms' COMMENTARY Henry Banta writes that Mitt Romney may not be a capitalist at all, but a pre-capitalist, right out if the Middle Ages, when workers (i.e., those not in the noble 1%) were kept in their place.

How the media enable the Republican tax agenda COMMENTARY Mike Lofgren, the former Republican congressional staffer who recently decried the descent of the GOP into lunacy, blames the press for not holding politicians accountable for their budgetary flimflam in the service of the rich. The result: A miserably misinformed public.

| What's wrong with attacking Iran? Better to ask: What's right?
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A former CIA station chief sees no threat to the U.S. from Iran, but a huge threat from attacking Iran.

| Are the candidates repelling Republican voters?
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GOP voter turnout in Iowa and New Hampshire has been lackluster. Reporters should pay attention to how many Republicans (not including crossover independents) vote in the upcoming primaries, and not just to the order of finish. Is the pattern continuing?

'A job creation myth' | New research weakens case for small business tax relief
COMMENTARY
Tax breaks for upper-income brackets are unlikely to help job creators, studies find, despite all the political rhetoric.

Not to be picky, but | Rhetoric aside, since when do businesses care about job creation?
COMMENTARY
Henry Banta points out that corporate leaders’ goal is to make a profit, and that ‘any sane businessman wants to employ as few people as he can.’ If jobs get in the way of profits, the jobs go – as Mitt Romney well knows.

| Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation launched SHOWCASE New program addresses the growing need for fresh ideas and research in news reporting.

Community or austerity? | The long-term care challenge isn't just a fiscal problem, it's a test of our nation's character
COMMENTARY
When it comes to caring for the elderly and the disabled, fiscal austerity and moral imperatives come into direct conflict. So as the baby boomers enter their twilight years, a scholar at the Claude Pepper Foundation writes, the nation will have a stark choice between communal values or neoliberal ones.

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