SEC Accuses Billionaire Investor Brothers Of $550 MILLION Worth Of Insider Trading, Fraud
While this week's document dump from WikiLeaks on the war in Afghanistan may objectively contain no blockbuster -- game-changing disclosures in the form of any single document, it still manages to create something extraordinary: an extended period of time in which the media rushed to the cameras to insist that the big story is that there is no big story at all.
Although Western liberalism may retain considerable appeal, the Western way of war has run its course.
In Time's mission to really "illuminate what is actually happening on the ground" has it ever put on its cover close-up images of a badly wounded or dead U.S. soldier or an Afghan killed in a NATO missile strike?
We now know that the NRA will be joining Beck and Palin for Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th Anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Is it possible to imagine a greater offense to the legacy of Dr. King?
I was on rotation, and a couple came in after a botched attempt at a home delivery. One by one, the baby's systems shut down. As instructed, I just kept adding stuff to keep him alive. Nothing was working. I was 26, depressed, and started to cry.
WikiLeaks is a declared combatant in information warfare: high-tech, good-government vigilantes. The group acts as the consummate outsider, a crucial role in the shadow elite era.
The commentary is that the decision the Court handed Obama's Justice Department on the Arizona immigration law, will be bad for swing Democrats. But there are two reasons why that that kind of knee-jerk response is just wrong.
Dating at 40-something. I never thought I would be here, but after the demise of two long-term relationships over the past 20 years I now found myself struggling to make my way through the dating world, once again.
The banking industry mentality is deeply conservative -- not the kind that makes sure that loans are collateralized and deposits protected. Rather, it is a mentality produced by an out-of-date understanding of the world.
In perhaps the most extreme step yet, Republicans in Colorado are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency never regulate fracking, "no matter what a two-year EPA study of the process reveals."
The steady erosion of American productivity may not just be unfortunate happenstance, but a premeditated effort to reap reward from failure. The culprit is, of course, the corporate mentality.
Unless Democrats take the discourse by the horns and fight, Republicans will balloon the deficit and undermine the economic recovery in order to give more handouts to the super rich. And the middle class will be an accomplice in its own homicide.
Forget about the alarmism over what Facebook is doing to old ideas of privacy, or to our free time, or to how we get bombarded by ads. What does it mean for the social connections that help us live long lives?
Angelie, age 14, poses for a portrait in Port-au-Prince. She was raped by four men and two women, all of whom she knew.
Gov. Christie vetoed a bill to restore $7.5 million in funding for state family planning services. The funding would have provided lifesaving preventive health care like cancer screenings to women who otherwise cannot afford it.
Hayward misbehaved by saying what he felt. But is there any reason to believe he is worse as an executive than any of his colleagues? He did spend nearly 30 years rising steadily through the ranks at BP, and he was the guy who reached the top.
Researchers in Sweden, writing in the journal Pathophysiology, suggest a surprising explanation for the prevalence of left-sided cancers that may change your sleeping habits.
Now the dilemma is, without proper clarity, without language and argot that clearly defines what Goldman has brewed in the way of financial engineering for the less wary to gobble up, how will they communicate with their trading desks?
"Jerk Chicken" arrayed Jamaican-style pieces of poultry around a portrait of Mel Gibson, and several representations of the BP oil spill had molasses and mole standing in for Gulf-despoiling crude.
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In true incrementalist fashion, Democrats have now made things slightly less unfair, but fell far short of actual fairness. It's as if, right after the Civil War, Congress announced that black people would now count as four-fifths of a person.
Congress finally addresses a double standard that has caused myriad problems, including perpetuating racial disparities, wasting taxpayer money, and targeting low-level offenders instead of dangerous criminals.
Our national security, our economic recovery and the future of the United States of America depends on our country taking a leadership role on climate change. And that, in turn, depends on the United States Senate acting.
Regardless of what cut of steak you cook, there are some basic tips and techniques that can raise your game, and when you master them, you will have your guests reeling in deliria.
Why has the story of the UN never made it into the cinematic arena? For all of its notoriety, few people know where the organization came from, how it was born, and why it grew into so influential a body.
The will of the American people is being subordinated to the demands of giant money-making machines called global corporations that can now spend or threaten to spend unlimited amounts of money in support of any politician.
