Supreme Court on Voting Rights Act

The conservative majority's [in Supreme Court] tortured logic relied on statistical evidence of reduced inequities between whites and minorities in voter-registration rates ... more >>

The Roberts Court, October 2010

As if state controlled

Snowden Coverage: If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
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What protests in Turkey and Brazil have in common?

Add Iran, and the best description would be Revolt of the global middle class 
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Standing man

To Ecuador?

The government of Ecuador has received an asylum request from Edward Snowden, according to an official from the country.

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Colorado Amendment 64

Colorado (and Washington) Was Just the Beginning ... more>>

Before I die I want to ...

TED talk by Candy Chang

What about the ratings agencies?

'What about the ratings agencies?

That's what "they" always say about the financial crisis and the teeming rat's nest of corruption it left behind. Everybody else got plenty of blame: the greed-fattened banks, the sleeping regulators, the unscrupulous mortgage hucksters like spray-tanned Countrywide ex-CEO Angelo Mozilo.

But what about the ratings agencies? Isn't it true that almost none of the fraud that's swallowed Wall Street in the past decade could have taken place without companies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's rubber-stamping it? Aren't they guilty, too?

Man, are they ever. And a lot more than even the least generous of us suspected.'

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