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Mortgage Investors Join Outcry Against Banks
Homeowners, and at times the government, have long complained that banks and other companies that service mortgages aren’t good at their job of collecting monthly payments, modifying loans and …
Leave ‘Em in the Locker Room: Pro Athletes Make Lousy Public Officials
Old sportswriters are always being asked for tips on big games. Here’s one for the biggest game on the schedule: never vote for a jock.
Koch-Funded Americans for Prosperity Push Proposition 23 at Official RNC Rally in California
On Saturday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) held a large “Victory Rally,” which ThinkProgress attended, just outside Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was the highlight …
A Stieg Larsson Nightmare: Sweden Lurches to the Right
The Sweden Democrats, a 20-plus-year-old, right-wing political party steeped in racism and Islamophobia, won 20 seats in Sweden's Parliament in the country's mid-September election. How the Tea Party movement's …
Why Christine O
Drawing on her experience as an “itinerant feminist organizer,” WMC Progressive Women’s Voices alumna Shelby Knox explains why the seemingly fringe views of Delaware’s GOP Senate candidate are no …
Public Opinion Snapshot: The Public’s Lack of Enthusiasm for Cutting Government
If you listened to conservatives and some media accounts you’d think there was an enormous public groundswell to reduce the size of government as rapidly as possible. But that …
Lawyers for Guantanamo Detainee Omar Khadr Still Negotiating Plea Deal
Lawyers for Omar Khadr are negotiating a plea deal that would sentence him to eight years in prison for several charges, including attempted murder, conspiracy and material support of …
Economics vs. Fakeonomics
We skeptics of free trade are used to being told, “You don't understand economics.” In fact, one major reason I wrote the book “Free Trade Doesn't Work” was simply …
Seeds of Change in Little Havana: Fresh Perspectives Eventually Emerge in the Cuban Exile Community
Havana, Miami, Washington: A Love/Hate Triangle
If Proposition 23 Passes, Will Other Greenhouse-Gas Laws Fall?
California's 2008 law to limit greenhouse-gas emissions is seen as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's biggest achievement. If it is undone by Proposition 23, other similar laws could follow, experts say. …