(Fortune) -- Elizabeth Warren, who came to Washington in 2008 with the task of keeping tabs on the financial bailout, today faces the unthinkable: business as usual for the Wall Street firms whose dealings plunged the country into the most severe recession in almost 80 years . …
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today called Senate legislation unveiled this week to rewrite rules governing financial institutions a step forward, but said "much more needs to be done to regulate Wall Street to prevent another severe financial crisis from happening again."
CIA drones are killing terrorists -- and civilians -- in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaida and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are incalculable.
Troops caught near a roadside blast will be pulled out of combat for 24 hours and checked for a mild traumatic brain injury, even if they appear unhurt or say they are fine, according to a new treatment policy the Pentagon is planning to release.
As a kid, military veterans from WWII assured this columnist, in the Fifties, that America would never commit war crimes similar to the ones Germany and Japan had racked up in World War II.
Imagine if in 2010 we did not spend one more borrowed penny to manufacture new weapons, occupy new lands, or recruit new mercenaries. Going cold turkey on military spending would wipe out nearly $1 trillion of our 1.6 trillion dollar deficit.
The new White House strategy is to show how Republicans are the party of no, by showcasing their answers and comments on poll-friendly issues. This is not going to work.
A profile of Attorney General Eric Holder in the current issue of The New Yorker contains a quote from Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that should be troubling to all citizens who care about justice issues. It should be particularly troubling for those ......
Doris Miller was below deck collecting laundry when the alarm sounded. The day was Dec. 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor was under attack. Miller was a mess attendant aboard the battleship West Virginia......
Heads of NATO member states are fond of talking about when the alliance might begin to withdraw from Afghanistan. But a draft communiqué ahead of the conference in London makes it clear: NATO will stay in the war-torn country for years to come.
"The ruling is going to open the flood gates for the largest corporations to spend unlimited resources electing those candidates who represent their interests. The ruling will........
In the wake of reports last night that Republican Scott Brown had won Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, several TV talking heads traced the upset to Democratic Party wrangling in December over health-care reform.
The media punditry, corn-fed on conventional wisdom, are all atwitter about the looming Democratic debacle in Massachusetts, saying that win or lose, the poor showing by the Democratic candidate for the late Sen.
Editor's note: In the following interview Bill Moyers and Thomas Frank, author of "What's the Matter With Kansas" and "The Wrecking Crew," talk about why conservatives can get away with blaming Obama for the past decade of conservative failures.
Gross injustices were done at Guantanamo Bay to the men rounded up in Afghanistan and beyond, usually because they happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time while America was looking for vengeance and warlords were looking for easy bounties.
Whenever I write about U.S. politics, people ask me "Don't you have any good news?" … But I do have good news, boatloads of good news, if Americans want to hear it.
If you want to see the unvarnished, true nature of our president, you need look no farther than two issues: whether to tax health plans that are deemed "too generous" and whether or how to tax the banks that brought about the financial crisis.
This is the time of year when everyone is making their New Year's resolutions. As far as I can tell, the White House has not released President Obama's list of resolutions for 2010. So I offer the following resolutions for him to consider, unlikely as they are to be adopted :
Had he not proven incompetent to detonate his lap bomb, Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab would have carried off an air massacre to rival Lockerbie. We would all have ended Christmas day watching TV footage of 300 mangled bodies being picked up around Detroit.
House Democrat Michael Capuano shocked House Democrats at their weekly Caucus meeting recently when he flatly told them they're screwed. Capuano was being charitable. They aren't screwed. They screwed themselves.
"It took a lot of courage on Kennedy's part to defy the Pentagon, defy the military—and do the right thing," said Col. Larry Wilkerson, USA (ret.), according to Robert Dreyfuss in his recent Rolling Stone article "The Generals' Revolt."
...Having surrounded himself with the very Wall Street con men who set up the crooked game that led to the current financial crisis and economic collapse, and finding that the lousy advice they have been giving him since last January has left the country still mired in deepening …
The 50th anniversary of the U.S. ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Torture passed last week with little fanfare and virtually no press attention from the mainstream media here.
I like to believe that, despite studying Guantánamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama's own party) voted for an idiotic, paranoid, and unjust moti …
The U.S. has made significant strides in its efforts to bring vulnerable Iraqi refugees to safety.
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