Traders dealing crude oil options on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange in April. (AP Photo)
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10 tough questions on oil and gas prices
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For starters, Joseph Davis asks: Why is Congress so passive on the lack of refining capacity? What about probes into price manipulation? The House passed a bill on price gouging; who’s holding it up in the Senate? 
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One message for investors, another for the public | The oil industry low-balls profits and the press goes along
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One more time: in a free market system, profits are return on dollars invested, not return on sales or revenue. Is that too complicated, Mr. Will? 
A 'wake-up' prize | Write an article, get it published, win $50,000
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But not just any article. This is a 'preventive journalism' prize set up by a group called 'Understanding Government,' founded and headed by Charles Peters, the former publisher of Washington Monthly. A likely subject of the article: exposing poor leaders and bad policies before they lead to disasters.
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| Why gas is almost $4 a gallon and some ideas on what to do about it
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Separating the real from wishful thinking on energy independence, short- and long-term oil price solutions, subsidies, speculation and government regulation.
A $1 bagel? | The farm bill and the food crisis
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What with soaring prices, shortages of staples and energy concerns, this year’s farm bill, now in conference, could have major national and international ramifications.
From Nieman Reports | Calling for a secrecy beat
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Ted Gup writes that reporters should be writing about the emerging 'secretocracy' that threatens to profoundly alter our entire system of governance, neutering oversight efforts and marginalizing citizens. He advocates writing not just about the secrets we can uncover, but also about the information that has been denied us.
The media need a scorecard | Republicans are conservative. Democrats are liberal. Got that?
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Conservatives are for getting the government off the backs of the people. Or is that, getting the people off the backs of the government? One of those two, anyway. And what is it again that liberals stand for?
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| Nu lede: The disappearing act reappears
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The Pentagon has ceased briefing retired military leaders who went on TV to promote the government’s handling of the Iraq war. The action came five days after the New York Times exposed the program.
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Myra MacPherson:
Finally, a mainstream columnist has hit hard at the heart of the smarmiest aspect of the Clinton cam... 
Myra MacPherson:
In the hours before Indiana went slightly for Hillary Clinton and North Carolina went big for Barack...
Morton Mintz:
“In American politics today, there is almost no serious discussion of how to reconcile the g...
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