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Obama Proposes Tough New Restrictions for Nation’s Top Banks
On the heels of a stinging defeat in the Massachusetts Senatorial race that dealt a major blow to passage of health care legislation, President Obama abruptly pivoted yesterday to …
Social Media and the Caste System in India
Ancient, meet the modern. How are India's complex social interactions playing out across social media? Mumbai, India - A man who goes by “hemant” types out a question: "Are …
Clinton Bluntly Condemns China on Internet Censorship
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered blunt condemnation of strict Internet censorship in China and pledged to help Chinese citizens jump the “Great Fire Wall.” Beijing - Hillary Clinton’s …
Prolonged Deployment Associated With More Mental Health Problems Among Army Wives
Prolonged deployment was associated with more mental health diagnoses among US Army wives, according to a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. For the study, …
Court Rules Ex-Guantanamo Prosecutor Likely Fired for Speaking Out About Military Commissions
In a final blow to the decision by the Library of Congress to fire the former Guantanamo prosecutor Col. Morris Davis, the 20th Federal Court has ruled Wednesday that …
Who’s Activist Now? The Roberts Court
Washington - The Supreme Court's decision Thursday to lift long-standing limits on corporate campaign spending exalts free speech above fears about political corruption. The 5-4 ruling exposes how the …
Will Democrats Heed Call From Left, Unions for Populist Agenda?
From union leaders like the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka to progressive advocates at the Campaign for America's Future, the lessons from the Massachusetts shellacking are crystal clear: the need to …
Supreme Court Shreds Campaign-Finance Laws, Lifts Corporate Spending Restrictions
In a sweeping 5-4 ruling, the US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down several longstanding prohibitions on corporate political contributions, saying legislative measures to control such spending infringed upon …
Roe v. Wade 30 Years Later: The Science on “Fetal Personhood” Hasn’t Changed
According to PersonhoodUSA, one of the reasons Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided is that the Court did not have available to it the “well-known facts of fetal development.” …
Time for a Change?
Barack Obama was preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of his presidency with relative confidence and the feeling of a job fulfilled. Specifically, he was counting on getting the …