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Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money
Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke took another swing at Social Security and Medicare today, saying yet again that they'll need to be cut to protect our nation's financial health. …
A Costly and Brutal Anniversary (Video)
Hungary Toxic Sludge Could Cause Long-Term Environmental Damage
Kolontár, Hungary - Workers with red-stained hands covered this town and others in southwest Hungary on Wednesday, cleaning the toxic sludge that remains from the wave of red mud …
News in Brief: White House Tries to Ease Tensions Between Pakistan and Coalition, and More
White House Tries to Ease Tensions Between Pakistan and Coalition
Robert Reich | The Emerging Anti-Trade Coalition, And Its Dangers
Smoot-Hawley here we come. Willis Hawley and Reed Smoot, you may recall, sponsored the Tariff Act of 1930 that raised tariffs to record levels on more than 20,000 imported …
Froma Harrop | Terrorism of a Personal Kind
The schoolyard bully used to work his fists. His target might go home with a black eye, but the bruise would eventually go away. Later in life, victim and …
David Sirota | The Real Democratic Whiners (2)
The way Democratic leaders tell it, their party's current “enthusiasm gap” comes from rank-and-file voters who are irrational and pessimistic complainers.
Foreclosuregate and Obama’s “Pocket Veto“
Amid a snowballing foreclosure fraud crisis, President Obama today blocked legislation that critics say could have made it more difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosure proceedings against them. The …
The Millennium Development Goals: A Check-Up on Latin America’s Progress
With much to deliberate since their last meeting in 2005, 140 leaders from across the globe came together in New York for the Assembly of the United Nations September …
Democrats Come Alive!
Friends, Ok! We're halfway through the week and we're off to a great start. Last week I gave the spineless Dems five friendly suggestions for things they could do …