We the Populists: How to Make Taxpayer Funded Bailouts Toxic
Want to join in the fun? Call Goldman's executive offices at (212) 902-1000, and tell them that nobody makes big profits at public expense while 10.2 percent of Americans are unemployed.
Want to join in the fun? Call Goldman's executive offices at (212) 902-1000, and tell them that nobody makes big profits at public expense while 10.2 percent of Americans are unemployed.
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
Geithner's problem is not that he is by nature a corrupt man. It's that he is steeped in the Wall Street way of doing business, which itself is riddled with fraud -- and billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
In light of the Honduran elections, Obama's representative decided that might be a good time to ridicule all the Latin American democracies.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
The deal to reinstate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya unraveled this week, leaving the U.S. as the only government in the western hemisphere willing to let the recent military coup there stand.
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The Republicans are resurgent, at least for now. It's going to be a hard slog in 2010 and 2012 to keep the grassroots fervor alive -- and the funding to sustain it. In Virginia, we are just plain tired.
Salena Tramel | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
Congress--and all Americans for that matter--should welcome each and every investigation of human rights violations, wherever and by whomever they may have been committed.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Now all those disgruntled Episcopalians have a choice to make: stay on the team that accepts openly gay priests, or bolt for another team run by closeted homosexual pedophiles. It's a tough call.
Anthony Papa | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
Having felt the sting of the Rockefeller laws firsthand -- serving 12 years under a 15-years-to-life sentence -- I understand the full meaning of the reforms that went into effect today.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media
I hope that President Obama calling people out on the incivilities will lessen the rewards for acting like a dope. Whether the Kanye comment was leaked or not, we all need to just start calling this behavior for what it is.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Mumbled apologies or standing up in front of everybody for questionable dress downs doesn't really do much for moving forward. It just gets people madder and more resentful.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home
The public option has to be minimized and renamed. Co-op is now a loaded a term; try 'non-profit optional choice for those who have no insurance' instead.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
It is 10:30 AM EDT on Saturday, August 29. As many of you, I am watching the funeral service of Senator Edward Kennedy. I am aware that you and I are also looking at a window of opportunity.
Frank Sharry | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Thanks to Kennedy, passage of comprehensive immigration reform is no longer a matter of if but of when.
Eric Lurio | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Kennedy's last public act before he died was to write the Massachusetts Democratic leadership and plead for the law that forbids a governor from appointing a senator's successor, be changed.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
SuperMoms dressed in red capes are distributing powerful truth flyers to passersby to educate them about what health care reform will really do and how it will help.
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Four months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners wrote a letter to Obama asking for their release. The government censors have only just cleared it and I have reprinted it here.
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy
Obama and Gates drank purely foreign libations while Crowley's choice, Blue Moon, is, like Obama, only half American. Is this really the message we need to convey as our economy struggles to climb out of recession?
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
When President Obama takes his case for health care to the American people tonight, his job is this: re-energize the large base of Americans who were adamant about the issue a year ago.
Martha St Jean | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
One commentator said, " I am tired of the race card being played every time a black person is arrested/questioned or anything else that happens with the police."
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Now that the House members have proposed legislation, it seems fair that I take a few minutes to talk about what they appear to have gotten right.
Anthony Citrano | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Marijuana decriminalization is getting fresh attention due to broad public support of the new AB 390 bill, but only a handful of media outlets, including CNN and CNBC, will air pro-legalization ads.
Aspen Baker | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
A just and lasting peace between pro-choice and pro-life people is possible, but it lies in the history of those who have fought over this issue, not in the tired rhetoric of "common ground."
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business