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New Data Shows Loan Modification Logjam Continues
New data released Friday shows that the story for the government’s foreclosure prevention program remains the same: Mortgage servicers have delivered relatively few permanent modifications, and hundreds of thousands …

The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay or How the “Lively Arts” Became “the Media“
[This essay appears in the March 2010 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]

Pelosi Under Pressure From Progressives on Public Option
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the public option is dead, but progressive organizations are mounting an aggressive campaign to resurrect it as Democratic lawmakers gear up to pass …

Policy Battle Over Afghan Peace Talks Intensifies
Washington - The struggle within the Barack Obama administration over Afghanistan policy entered a new phase when the president suggested at a meeting of his “war cabinet” Friday that …

Torture and the Imperial Presidency
In an ABC television interview on February 14, 2010, former Vice President Dick Cheney mounted a vigorous attack on the Obama administration's departure from its predecessor's embrace of torture …

Hotlined Senate Bill Weakens Whistleblower Protection
Changes to the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act currently working its way through the Senate would cover up intelligence failures and civil liberties abuses in the Federal Bureau of Investigation …

Refuting Caricatures: An Interview With Gilbert Achcar
In the introduction to your book, you declare that you wrote it in order to “fight the symmetrical caricatures” often heard about Arab attitudes to the Holocaust? What are …

US Consulate Employee Slain in Drug-Ridden Mexican City
Washington - The Mexican government pledged Sunday to investigate the brutal killings of a U.S. consulate employee and two family members of consulate employees in violent, drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez, …

Lehman Brothers Used Accounting Trick Amid Financial Crisis – and Earlier
Failed investment bank Lehman Bros. used an accounting trick at the end of each quarter to make its finances appear less shaky than they really were, says a report …

Cancer Patient Fired by Walmart for Legally Using Medical Marijuana
Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana Joseph Casias, 29, has an inoperable brain tumor. Last November, Walmart fired him after 5 years on the job because …