News Analysis

The Obama administration’s mortgage modification program is more than two years old. From the beginning, it’s been apparent that the participating banks and mortgage servicers were breaking the program’s …

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(Photo: Oregonmetro.gov) 2011 marks the year for redistricting – the once-in-a-decade process to draw boundaries that determine your elected officials from local school boards and city councils …

(Photo: dignidadrebelde / Flickr) If you think that “double Irish” and “Dutch sandwich” are schoolyard jump rope games girls play, think again. These are the nefarious, but …

One great irony of the youth-led revolt in the Arab world is that the two shining successes, Tunisia and Egypt, were previously stellar examples of neoliberal policy. …

Humala Narrowly Edges out Fujimori

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia). (Photo: republicanconference / Flickr) On June 1, Kathy Hochul (D-New York) was sworn in as the newest member of Congress. She …

When reviewing a story about a recent deal between the government and Indians regarding multinational oil companies in the Peruvian Amazon, the editor of an important national news magazine …

Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of Kazakstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev. (Photo: Evstafiev / Wikimedia) It has all the twists of a Hollywood blockbuster: shadowy international figures, a …

(Photo: Scott Robinson / Flickr) Introduction Although the credit crunch has pushed the issue of the global food crisis to the background, it is …