Friday's Daily Brief: Colorado Theater Shooting Kills 12

Friday, July 20, 2012 Colorado Theater Shooting Leaves 12 Dead POLITICS Mitt Romney Juggled Stock To Avoid Major Tax Hit BUSINESS Half Of American Households Hold 1 Percent Of Its Wealth POLITICS More Republicans Speak Out Against Bachmann Attacks CELEBRITY 'Anchorman' Actor Caught With Pants Down, Arrested TV Aaron Sorkin Dumps 'Newsroom' Writing Staff BLOG POSTS Arianna Huffington: She Was Right In 1962, Rachel Carson began sounding the alarm about the dangers of exposure to chemicals and the failure of the industry and regulators to protect people from those dangers. Fifty years later, Lynne Peeples's anniversary feature in Huffington is a reminder that we have failed to heed many of Carson's warnings, especially when it comes to protecting our most precious resource, our children. Menachem Rosensaft: Reclaiming What It Means to Be an American I was born in the Displaced Persons camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany in 1948. From the day I became a naturalized US citizen, I have been as much an American as anyone. It is depressingly disconcerting, therefore, to hear the cacophony of voices accusing the President of the United States of not being "American," of being somehow foreign. Richard N. Haass: Syria: Beyond the UN Veto The failure to renew the diplomatic mission being led by Kofi Annan (with its associated group of observers) is no great loss. The peace plan under which Annan was operating had and has no chance of being accepted. Navi Pillay: Time to Change Our Response to HIV HIV is no longer the certain death sentence it once was. And yet, the stigma and discrimination faced by HIV-positive people remains high, in every region of the world. Mohamed Nasheed: The Maldives' Political Tailspin And The Future Of Our Democracy I face prison again. But I fear that the consequences for democracy in the Maldives will be worse than for me personally.

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