Nation Topics - Countrywide Financial | The Nation

Corporate whistleblowers get the silent treatment from Washington.

Angelo Mozilo, former CEO of Countrywide Financial, has just agreed to pay $67.5 million SEC fine. But the landmark 2008 settlement with Bank of America, which had acquired Countrywide that year, has done little to help defrauded homeowners.

Was Wall Street short-sighted—or did it know full well the financial crisis was coming?

The unregulated hedge fund calls the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program--snapping up bad loans some of its execs originally marketed.

Activists demand a foreclosure freeze, renegotiated loans and a bailout for all.

Barack Obama may yet become the reform President who rearranges power on behalf of the people. But he'll need to resist the brotherhood of cozy insiders.

Dennis Kucinich's impeachment play; architects of the subprime mortgage disaster; sexism and the Clinton campaign.