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Not Content With Ads, U.S. Chamber Investing in Making the News Too

By | 10.22.10 | 3:39 pm

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t just using its cash to flood the airwaves, reports the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard this afternoon; it’s also been investing in its own publishing platform, running both a national site and a network of local publications that focus on legal issues (like More…

Harold Koh Confirms That He’s Not Against Mother’s Day and Wouldn’t Impose Sharia Law

By | 04.28.09 | 5:13 pm

Despite some of the more extreme attacks on Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Obama’s nominee for counsel to the State Department, Koh skillfully defended himself at a remarkably respectful hearing on his nomination before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

Although he faced tough questions on More…