By Thursday, the US government will have voted to give the MPAA and itself broad powers to block any site. SOPA would not only hurt free speech, it will choke off the internet workforce and its readers by taking down entire websites. People can kill it off entirely this week --...

This Wednesday, Congress is considering a law that gives the US government (and any private corporation) the power to block any website, remove it from search engines, and cut off its sources of funding.

Leading civil liberties and tech policy organizations are organizing an internet-wide day of protest in response,...

By Ruth Robertson, ANWF Organizer

A New Way Forward launched call-in days last week to do two things: push for structural reforms that address root causes of the crisis and dig out the backroom information that, when hidden in the dark, work all too well to kill good reforms. The

The next few weeks will culminate into a defining moment in American history and lay the course for our economic future. After two years of being asleep at the switch, Congress is finally stepping up and taking action on financial reform. The resulting bill will be a clear indication and...

The Brown-Kaufman SAFE Banking amendment has become the single most important amendment to the financial reform bill to end bailouts. It is the most transformative bill because it addresses the problem that too big to fail banks are too big to regulate properly and are able to capture votes...

Senate Republicans say they're against both the bailouts and the Democrats' proposed legislation to end them. They say that Sen. Dodd's bill would "actually guarantees future bailouts." It's time for the Republicans to put up or shut up. Will they make Dodd's bill better by breaking up the too...

Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has spent her career serving students in higher education. She has also spent the past decade serving on the Board of Wall Street bank-holding company Goldman Sachs. If she truly cares about helping people obtain an education, it makes sense that she should step...