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The Fight Over Transparency in the Meat Industry Inside the effort to pry open the meat industry.

The Fight Over Transparency in the Meat Industry

The Article of the day for October 10, 2016 is Wendell Willkie . Wendell Willkie (1892–1944) was an American corporate executive and the 1940 Republican candidate for president. In 1933 he became president of Commonwealth & Southern Corporation (C&S), a utility holding company. He fought against President Franklin Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a publicly owned competitor of C&S; though unsuccessful, he sold C&S's property to the TVA for a good price, and gained public esteem. A longtime Democratic activist, Willkie changed his party registration to Republican in late 1939. He did not run in the 1940 presidential primaries, but positioned himself as an acceptable choice for a deadlocked convention. As Hitler rampaged through Western Europe in the spring of 1940, many Republicans did not wish to nominate an isolationist like Thomas E. Dewey, and turned to Willkie, who was nominated on the sixth ballot. His support for aid to Britain paralleled Roo...

Donald Trump Addresses His Gross Leaked Tapes From 2005 On 'SNL'

Donald Trump Addresses His Gross Leaked Tapes From 2005 On 'SNL' Even in a week when it should be mocking the vice presidential noms, "Saturday Night Live" found more than a few reasons to completely crush Donald Trump. October 9, 2016 at 02:48PM

Word of the day is biannual : Occurring twice a year; semiannual. (proscribed, through conflation with biennial) Occurring once every two years; biennial.

Comeback or Train Wreck? Why the Town Hall Format Is So Perilous for Trump The format of tonight's debate — a town hall meeting where an audience of undecided voters asks the questions — poses the distinct possibility of a full-blown train wreck.