For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s -- when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" -- but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of …
President Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today, was previously a top executive at financial firm J.P.
A Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect’s car to track his public movements for two months. The ruling, upholding federal theft and other charges, is one in a string of decisions nationwide sup …
As 2011 ends, the arc of the moral universe appears to be bending in the direction of justice. Developments in immigration, criminal justice and labor policy point to shifts in the discourse that give communities of color some new leverage.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday that he would veto legislation that would allow certain illegal residents to become American citizens. "The answer is yes," Romney said during a campaign stop here in western Iowa, when h …
Do you want to take this country back to the time when we built the interstate system, put a man on the moon, and had a world class education system?
After the experience of the past five years, it certainly seems like John Maynard Keynes was right, doesn't it? It seems hard to conclude anything else.
A billionaire named Nick Hanauer recently wrote an editorial for Bloomberg in which he destroyed the argument that the jobs in America are created by rich entrepreneurs and investors. As both political parties try to blame each other for our economic mess, this argument has be …
Summary of the Summary The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment.
OK, ready for this? I used to be a teacher. Yes, I did. It was crazy. I'm not teacher material (meaning I don't enjoy 14-hour work days, not sure who does...) so I only lasted a couple years, but it was an invaluable experience for a variety of reasons.
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