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Rep. Cory Mason, Sarah Schulman & Omar Barghouti, and CEO Pay
April 11, 2011"If people don't have trust and confidence in their elections, it's really hard to have confidence in the democracy writ large," says Wisconsin State Representative Cory Mason, noting the "gross incompetence or malice" involved in the sudden appearance, a day and a half after the polls closed, of 7500 votes for the conservative candidate in his state's Supreme Court race.The F Word: Shareholders Fight Back as Democrats Compromise
April 11, 2011The ink on the compromise that kept the government open—barely--isn't even dry and they're already talking about the next round of cuts in Washington.Micha Kurz, Billy Wimsatt, and Voting on CEO Pay
October 19, 2010Peace talks between Israel and Palestine are "a calming pill. Kind of a time game," according to Micha Kurz, co-director of Grassroots Jerusalem and a founder of Breaking the Silence, an organization of former IDF soldiers speaking out about their experiences in the Occupied Territories. While the talks stall, settlement building continues, and settlement building, Kurz notes, becomes a "fact" that makes the idea of a Palestinian state less viable.The F Word: Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay
October 19, 2010From the file marked "Good but could go bad," there's this news. We already know that CEO pay has spiked alarmingly over the last decade or so, causing dangerous rifts as ordinary working people struggle to get by and watch their jobs go poof.Ed Pilkington, Violent Video Games, and Oklahoma
April 28, 2010TV networks and bloggers alike got some mileage out of the comments in a Goldman Sachs email that an investment was a "sh*tty deal," but Ed Pilkington of the British newspaper The Guardian thinks it's about time that U.S. politics got a little rougher, say, how they've been in the U.K. for a while now. But an import from U.S. electoral politics--a televised debate between the three main candidates for Prime Minister--has shaken up politics in the U.K. and rocketed a former Nation magazine intern, Liberal Democrat candidate Nick Clegg, to fame.The F Word: Good Enough for Oklahoma, How About Goldman?
April 28, 2010Democrats in D.C. are going about this regulation thing all wrong. Want to get Republican buy-in? Give Republicans the kind of regulation they like. As usual in U.S. politics, the states provide the road map.Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Lisa Shannon and Superfront
April 27, 2010Financial reform came up for a test vote this week in the Senate--and the Republican party (plus Ben Nelson) voted to filibuster the bill before even debating the subject. Will GOP political posturing continue to hold progress hostage? What's the point of being the Party of No, and will the Republicans' apparent decision to stick to that line finally push Obama to decide that there's no point in trying to win them over, and lead him to making progressive choices--for the Supreme Court, say?The F Word: More Than Reform For Subprime Hurt
April 27, 2010When the dust settles, the chain of command at Goldman Sachs -- from CEO Lloyd Blankfein, to junior executive Fab Tourre -- who calls himself the "fabulous Fab" -- face no jail time. A battalion of defense lawyers will see to that, and the Securities and Exchange Commission can only go so far, having been asleep at the wheel for years.Dean Baker: Going After Goldman
April 22, 2010Matt Taibbi called Goldman Sachs a "giant vampire squid," and it appears that they've finally overstepped their bounds. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Goldman, accusing it of "Fraud in Structuring and Marketing of CDO Tied to Subprime Mortgages."The F Word: Is the SEC Up to the Job?
April 21, 2010One of the best kept secrets in Washington is the working of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Does it get the job done? Not even close.
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