Robbing Us and Paying Out Robbing Us and Paying Out
The results of the Treasury Department's touted "stress tests" are out – and so far the result is a call for massive new capital for banks. It adds up to a ...
May 12, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Kai Wright: Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis Kai Wright: Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis
The foreclosure crisis is far from being resolved. Wright says that banks are still pursuing even those who have already given up their homes.
May 12, 2009 / GRITtv
L’Affaire Edwards: To Sabotage or Not? L’Affaire Edwards: To Sabotage or Not?
On the heels of Elizabeth Edwards' revelation in her new book that she wanted her husband to drop out of the race for the presidency after having an affair with videographer Rielle...
May 12, 2009 / Ari Berman
New US General Vs. Taliban, Pashtuns New US General Vs. Taliban, Pashtuns
The war in Afghanistan has been overshadowed in recent weeks by the crisis next door in Pakistan, but no more. Secretary of Defense Gates has fired the US commander there, General...
May 12, 2009 / Bob Dreyfuss
Credit Card Holders Have Rights Too Credit Card Holders Have Rights Too
Momentum is shifting in Washington to to protect consumers from arbitrary rate hikes and other unfair and deceptive credit card practices.
May 12, 2009 / Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney
The Politics of Escalation The Politics of Escalation
Democrats in Congress are quashing criticism of military escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
May 12, 2009 / Tom Hayden and Joseph Gerson
Hex Mex Hex Mex
Amid the anti-Mexican media hysteria festering since the outbreak of swine flu, Dave Letterman's portrayal last week of potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a hot-blo...
May 12, 2009 / Leslie Savan
Road to Ruin: Mortgage Fraud Scandal Brewing Road to Ruin: Mortgage Fraud Scandal Brewing
Former loan officers from lending firms step forward to point out the systemic fraud that created the subprime mortgage housing crisis.
May 11, 2009 / American News Project
Lobbying for Autocrats Lobbying for Autocrats
A senator and congressman argue that free trade is the best way to improve US relations with Russia and Georgia. What's in it for us?
Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture
I.F. Stone used to joke that what passed for investigative journalism in Washington was actually just the restating of what was already in the public record at the appropriate tim...
May 11, 2009 / John Nichols