David Freddoso

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Fast food workers have been protesting this summer, demanding higher wages. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann)

Fries with that free lunch? The problem with a $15 fast food wage

David Freddoso · August 11, 2013 4:00 am

What the unemployment numbers don’t tell us

David Freddoso · August 4, 2013 4:00 am

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, left, and emergency manager Kevryn Orr discuss the city's bankruptcy during a July 18, 2013, news conference. (AP Photo)

Anarchists didn’t create Detroit’s anarchy

David Freddoso · July 28, 2013 4:00 am

If thing had turned out differently the night Trayvon Martin was killed, Stand Your Ground might have protected his rights. (AP File)

Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law could have saved Trayvon Martin’s life

David Freddoso · July 26, 2013 4:00 am

A law that forces certain large business in the District of Columbia to pay a higher minimum wage will likely push out several planned Wal-Mart stores. (AP File)

District gives Walmart a dose of its own medicine

David Freddoso · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

The trail of George Zimmerman, charged in the death of Trayvon Martin, has taken precedence over the Egyptian revolution in much of the mainstream media. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool)

George Zimmerman coverage obscures TV editors’ news judgment

David Freddoso · July 12, 2013 4:00 am

Kermit Gosnell's defense attorney argued that because the babies he was convicted of murdering died in utero, he should not be convicted. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)

If only Kermit Gosnell had worn pink sneakers like Wendy Davis

David Freddoso · June 30, 2013 4:00 am

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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is among the many whistleblowers being prosecuted by the Obama administration.

Washington keeps getting worse for whistleblowers

David Freddoso · June 28, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama defended his government's secret surveillance, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the collection of America's phone records and U.S. internet use. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Obama defends surveillance practices he decried as senator

David Freddoso · June 21, 2013 4:00 am

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President Obama now finds himself defending as "a modest encroachment of privacy" the same National Security Agency surveillance practices that he decried when he was a senator and George W. Bush was president.

National Security

Obama defends surveillance that he decried as senator

David Freddoso · June 17, 2013 4:00 am

Liberal Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., alleged that the conservative groups targeted by the IRS were seeking a "subsidy" from taxpayers. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

David Freddoso: The only thing we have to overreach is overreach itself

David Freddoso · June 6, 2013 4:00 am

David Freddoso: No limits on ‘right to gripe’ for people who buy ink by the barrel

David Freddoso · May 30, 2013 4:00 am