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ForeclosureGate: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks?
Looming losses from ForeclosureGate qualify as the sort of systemic risk warranting the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks under the new financial reform bill. The new Financial Stability Oversight …
Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Felons’ Voting Rights Challenge
Washington - Massachusetts prison inmates have lost a bid to regain their voting rights after claiming that a state referendum diluted black and Hispanic political clout because of the …
UN Urged to Confront Rising Tide of Homophobia
United Nations - Nearly than two years after the Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity was proposed to the United Nations General Assembly, many civil society groups say …
Supreme Court to Hear Ashcroft Appeal of US Muslim’s Detention
Washington - The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the detention and interrogation of an …
Ecuador After the Financial Crisis: Room for Internal or External Policy Space?
Paul Krugman has drawn attention to the plight of Ecuador, noting that, since the country does not have an exchange rate policy (and hence a monetary policy), it stood …
Tom Engelhardt | A World Made by War
When you look at me, you can’t mistake the fact that I’m of a certain age. But just for a moment, think of me as nine years old. You …
Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidence
Washington - New information on the Central Intelligence Agency's campaign of drone strikes in northwest Pakistan directly contradicts the image the Barack Obama administration and the CIA have sought …
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Think
Psychoanalysis enables us to point to some trace or other of a homosexual object-choice in everyone. … It can be traced back to the constitutional bisexuality of all human …
From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards
For almost three decades I’ve been studying nudibranchs in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. Nudibranchs are beautiful and brightly colored sea slugs that thrive on healthy coral reefs. …
Shouts Banish Doubts
New research suggests one reason our political discourse is so loud and angry: Planting seeds of doubt leads people to more vigorously advocate for their cherished beliefs.