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Daniel Luzer

news editor

Daniel Luzer -- News Editor. Daniel previously worked as the Web editor at the Washington Monthly and as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. His work has appeared at Mother Jones, Salon, Pacific Standard, the Washington Monthly and Columbia Journalism Review.

(It's pronounced Loot-zer.)

Dan Schwartz, Nevada's state Republican party finance chairman, explaining why the his state's GOP removed any mention of abortion or gay marriage from its platform.
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Decline in black enrollment at the University of Michigan between 2006, when the state's affirmative action ban went into effect, and 2012.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, explaining that his latest budget cuts funding for the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in part because of the high cost of public pensions.
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Ounces of marijuana left so far in "amnesty boxes" at the City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport in 2014.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, reacting to Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, on why the Supreme Court should allow Hobby Lobby to eliminate the morning-after pill from its employee health care plan.
Sinnott Murphy and Stephanie Pincetl, authors of a recent research paper, which finds that while many states have recycling goals to divert waste from landfills and have pursued extended producer-responsibility policies to try to reduce the more-toxic elements of the waste stream, these policies are too small to have a meaningful impact.
Amount paid by the Illinois Medicaid program for medical services for people who had already died.
A recap of what got done — and didn't — in the 2014 legislative session.
On almost 20 percent his trips, taxpayers covered all or part of the travel as Emanuel met with political donors or raised campaign cash.
Portland, Ore., Water Administrator David Shaff, on why the city drained 38 million gallons of water from a public reservoir after videotape surveillance caught a man urinating in it early one morning.