Does fiscal or monetary stimulus work?
Jim Wallis | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business
Before any deals are made to end government (read: taxpayer) control of AIG, we should demand answers to questions such as: Who knew what, and when? Who benefited, and by exactly how much?
Mark Drapeau | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
Recently, I wrote a post about Government 2.0 predictions for 2010-12, and one of them was that government would "always be on-the-record."
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics
This is a despicable health care bill, a stain on the soul of anyone who has worked on it, who supports it, who believes they have done anything right in birthing it. Nonetheless, it should be passed.
Saul Segan | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics
The Obama Administration continues to self-destruct and to take us along with it. The health care debacle shows the absolute heartlessness of the lawmakers and their incapacity for logical thinking.
Paul David Walker | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
Many point out that without special interest groups, "bribing" our elected officials is the main problem. Bribery is one of the "high crimes" mentioned in Article 2, Section 4 of our constitution.
AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University's law school will stop offering a year of free tuition to students who go into public service law after gr...
Lisa Guest | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living
He's had epilepsy for over fifteen years. He lost his license and his job fifteen years ago. Medicare says he's not "disabled enough."
Huff Radio | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
Are moneyed and special interests so entrenched that we cannot govern of, for and by the people? Is history made by great men and women? Or is it the reverse: Does the moment make the man/woman?
Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living
To save money the UC System was about to raise undergraduate tuition by 32 percent, in addition to hiking fees for professional degrees.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
The broken nature of America's immigration system is deeply felt during the holidays by millions in the United States who long to be reunited with their loved ones.
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
Peer-to-peer software, by itself, did not cause the confidential Congressional document to be leaked to the press. Certainly people are not perfect and some data breaches will still occur even with better policies and technology.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
Development and humanitarian assistance can no longer be an afterthought; they must be central to any strategy the U.S. government puts forward in Afghanistan.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Have you had enough of Democrats that you elect selling you down the river? Are you angry enough?
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
In looking at Obama's first year, we must not fall into the typical trap that pits idealism against pragmatism, where the virtuous line up against the effective, and the purists fight the negotiators.
David Jones | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
It seems to me that a whole generation of elected black officials is under scrutiny for financial improprieties and missteps. Woven into some of these attacks is a much less savory motivation of moneyed elites.
Ashley Koff | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
In spite of their pledges to reduce unhealthy marketing to children, the large cereal companies continue to target children with their least healthy products.
Mira Veda | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Perhaps, in a few years when he's proven he has the character everyone admired in him in the first place he can jump into another race in politics.
Chantal Unfug | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver
At the discussion about the Byers Library, or the session about Lake Middle School, the anger was the same, the distrust of the bureaucracy was the same, and the total exasperation was the same.
Gary Hart | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.
Jason Mannino | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
We still live in a world where too many LGBT people have unconsciously held onto the poisonous, negative beliefs about sexual orientation that our society, churches, and government still force feed us.
Halle Tecco | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Here's a question to the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world: how do we turn tax-consuming inmates into tax paying, law-abiding citizens?
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
The question is not why did we bail out the banks. The question is why did we give the banks billions so they could buy assets by the trillions and keep the profits?
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
We don't want a government commandeered by those in our banking system who have failed and been passed over by technological advancements, innovation and flat-out smarts. But right now, that's what we've got.
Edward Harrison | Posted 12.24.2009 | Business