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The American Legislative Exchange Council: Who Is ALEC?
Florida and 24 other states have adopted "Stand Your Ground" laws thanks to a shadowy organization of state legislators and lobbyists. We hear the pros and cons of ALEC.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenFlorida and 24 other states have adopted "Stand Your Ground" laws thanks to a shadowy organization of state legislators and lobbyists. We hear the pros and cons of the group called ALEC. Also, India tests a nuclear missile, and without a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, what are readers — and publishers — going to do?
Banner image: Protesters gather outside the American Legislative Exchange Council's headquarters to protest against the laws protecting the 'justifiable homicide' passed in more than half of the US states. Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images
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Less than a week since North Korea's spectacular failure , India said today it successfully launched a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon 3100 miles in any director. Bruce Riedel is a former CIA officer, now senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Read the story7 minA New Look at the Sausage Factory Where Laws Are Made
The Trayvon Martin killing has sparked a national firestorm over Florida's " Stand Your Ground " law. Now it turns out that 24 other states have similar laws because of a little known group called the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Read the story36 minPulitzer Board Snubs Fiction
Nothing sells fiction like the Pulitzer Prize, but this year — for the first time since 1977 — no fiction prize was awarded . Every year a jury of over-worked readers struggles through hundreds of novels to come up with three books to recommend to the Pulitzer board.
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