On Wednesday, the president will unveil his foreclosure relief plan. Which is a very good thing, because if you were to make a pie chart showing the amount of attention given to the banking part of the financial crisis -- both by the government and by the media -- and the amount of attention given to the foreclosure part, the catastrophe being faced by millions of American homeowners would barely rate a sliver. But we are facing nothing less than a national emergency, with 10,000 Americans going into foreclosure every day and 2.3 million homeowners having faced foreclosure proceedings in 2008. "The banks are too big to fail" has been the mantra we've been hearing since September. But when you consider the millions of American homeowners facing foreclosure, aren't they also too big to be allowed to fail?
During trying economic times, the brands that endure are those that that adapt to the changing needs of their customers, without forsaking their core values.
Showing unidentified flag-draped coffins coming into Dover (or any other ports of entry) is an unfortunate part of war that the public has a right to see.
It's becoming clearer and clearer that official acts of cruelty had little to do, either in intent or effect, with enhancing national security or producing reliable intelligence.
As a J-school student, I ask myself: is it crazy to pay for an education in a profession that refuses to charge for its services? Giving away news for free was a terrible folly. It's time now to move on and cough up.
The banking industry has continued a massive anti-consumer lobbying campaign, even as it took hundreds of billions of dollars in TARP funds to stave off insolvency.
There appears to be a pretty big gap between what DC journalists think Americans think, and what Americans actually think. Look at the DC media's "winners" and "losers" in the wake of the stimulus bill.
If the day ever comes when the Republicans stop playing "Back in the Saddle" and start playing "Working Class Hero," the Democrats may find themselves facing the music.
A new Global AIDS Coordinator can make real change in the field of HIV/AIDS health care delivery. Despite Bush successes, its outcomes have been inhibited by conservative ideology.
8) People say I use too much business jargon when I frame strategy fundamentals trend paradigm.
9) I have two beautiful sons and their names are Prioritize and Skill Set.
As W. is released on DVD and Bush is in Crawford, Texas, still regularly excoriated in the press for his role in the financial meltdown, Stone spoke to me about the film, and his empathy for its subject.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has long coveted the prize that now puts him in the company of endlessly "election"-holding paragons such as Robert Mugabe, Alexander Lukashenko and Kim Jong-Il.
How do you lure such big names to an NBC News lair for their ambush interview? You simply invite them.
We're facing more regulation of everything from high finance to the ordinary workplace. The Democrats are expanding Medicaid to crowd out private insurance. And we're talking about mice?
Ben Folds and I recorded a tongue-in-cheek, ironic, up-tempo pop song about a girl who got drunk, date raped, and had an abortion, and now no one will play the video.
From the commentariat to the White House chief of staff, the lesson to be learned from the last two weeks, we are told, is that the Obama administration let the Republicans frame the debate over the stimulus.
Of all the changes impacting the worlds of daughters and dads, few rival the growing trend of daughters not just joining the family business, but taking them over.
It should be a simple question, right? How bad is the credit crunch for small business?
Is Prop 8, which passed by a slim majority in November, an amendment to the constitution or is it a revision?
