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Breaking Up The Banks I Did It

As the debate heats up over Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I took a step out on my own. I got a divorce. I am no longer a wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank. First Wells Fargo acquired the bank I’d been banking in. Then...

Major Week Of Events To Celebrate One Year Of Health Care Reform

Melinda Gibson is the Operations Manager for Health Care for America Now! The following originally appeared on the HCAN blog. Health Care for America Now (HCAN), the nationwide coalition that led the successful fight for health reform, is hosting more than 75...

Merchants of Danger

Fukushima is "a very huge disaster that has caused very large damage at a nuclear power generation plant on a scale that we had not expected," according to the deputy director general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. But the risk of disaster was easily...

Looking For Jobs at CPAC

No, I'm not jumping ship or anything like that. I'm just at CPAC looking for something, anything about how conservatives plan to create jobs. Let's just say I'm still looking. Today, I'm attending (and covering) the Conservative Political Action Conference (a.k.a...

We Cant Let an Amateur Right-Wing Smear Campaign Destroy NPR

with Michael Winship There’s no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow – that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public...

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