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Obama calls Arizona immigration bill “misguided.” The Washington Post reports that President Obama urged Congress today to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, saying that inaction would lead to "misguided …

For a number of years, the running joke about me among my friends was that, because I write for a living, I'm a bum. They didn't really mean it, …

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Perhaps I'm biased. I bought $25,000 of stock in a corporation that I thought had a good idea. Little did I know that the CEO also had a second …

Washington - The politics of financial regulatory reform are simple. After the meltdown and the bailout, many Americans — perhaps most Americans — are inclined to see Wall Street …

A discussion with Charles Bowden on what's driving the so-called “war on drugs” and who's benefiting from it? …

2048: Humanity's Agreement to Live Together by J. Kirk Boyd Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2010 The first time I heard John Lennon's “Imagine,” I was a high school kid with …

Moyers and economists James Kwak and Simon Johnson wonder whether the financial powers are more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever.

As Tiger Woods returns to golf, not all his affairs are salacious headlines. In Dubai, the Tiger Woods Golf Course in Dubai is costing $100 million to build. Dubai …

Washington - Sen. Arlen Specter said Thursday that he'd hold a hearing next month to examine Wall Street firms' potential conflicts of interest when they secretly bet against products …