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Joseph Stiglitz | Illiberal Stagnation 
Joseph Stiglitz. (photo: Virginia Mayo/AP) 
Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate 
Stiglitz writes: "Today, a quarter-century after the Cold War's end, the West and Russia are again at odds. This time, though, at least on one side, the dispute is more transparently about geopolitical power, not ideology." 
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Feinstein Announces Opposition to Gorsuch Over Support for "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" 
Alexander Bolton, The Hill 
Bolton writes: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, announced she will oppose President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, Monday." 
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Trump's Budget Would Hit Rural Towns Especially Hard - but They're Willing to Trust Him 
Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post 
Johnson writes: "In a town of 16,000 - located near the Texas border in Oklahoma's Bryan County, where Trump won 76 percent of the vote - excitement about Trump's presidency has been dulled by confusion over an agenda that seems aimed at hurting their community more than helping it." 
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North Carolina Claims It Repealed HB 2, but LGBTQ Activists Say New Law May Be Just as Dangerous 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Last week, North Carolina lawmakers repealed the anti-LGBT law HB 2, known as the "bathroom bill." But the new law that replaces HB 2 is facing widespread criticism from LGBT activists." 
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Big Pharma's Anti-Marijuana Stance Aims to Squash the Competition, Activists Say 
Sam Levin, Guardian UK 
Levin writes: "Pharmaceutical company Insys has now received approval from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to develop its own synthetic marijuana-a new case of Big Pharma battling small cannabis growers." 
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Mexico Newspaper Closes in Protest of Violence Against Journalists 
Al Jazeera 
Excerpt: "A Mexican newspaper has announced it will no longer publish after 27 years in existence because of increasing insecurity along the border with the United States." 
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What Happens if the EPA Is Stripped of Its Power to Fight Climate Change? 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House. Bills stripping the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases - bills that might have been written off as dead on arrival months ago - carry a new weight in a government marked by unprecedented antagonism towards the mission of the EPA." 
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