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Matt Taibbi has a good piece on the important and public resignation of a former Goldman executive, Greg Smith. The essence of Smith’s piece is …

I generally don’t bother reading Thomas Friedman. A good friend gave me a copy of The World Is Flat, and I started reading it. Somewhere in the first one …

An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahead of clients. Greg …

Pueblo, Colorado - For many years, and multiple election cycles, Republicans talked about the growing Hispanic vote in America like moonstruck, misunderstood boys at a high school dance. They …

Extended federal unemployment benefits are being phased out for almost 80,000 jobless workers in South Carolina despite the state’s high 9.3 percent jobless rate. About 6,500 people will lose …

(Photo: Mike Fleshman / Flickr) “What's going on today, guys?” asked Detective Rick Lee, or, as he's more widely known, Hipster Cop. I was standing outside the …

“Parody is one of the few weapons that labor people are still allowed to use,” Madison-based labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki recently told me. But members of Wisconsin Gov. Scott …

The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in February—the largest such gain since last April. Over the last three months, the CPI has averaged an annualized rate of …

By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith, a former Goldman …

Washington - For more than two years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the …