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Severe Beijing Smog Prompts Unusual Transparency

One of Beijing’s worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this time something was different about the murky haze: the government’s transparency in talking about it. While welcomed by residents and …

Delaware Secret Court Arbitration Unconstitutional

A Delaware law allowing Court of Chancery judges to preside over secret arbitration in business disputes is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the Delaware Coalition for Open Government, which argued that …