by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
There is some good news in the fight for homeowners and against the big banks. Homeowners who are facing foreclosures because of unfair and often illegal practices by the major financial Goliaths are learning how to organize, how to shame bank executives and how to...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
Appeared in the June 25, 2012 edition of The Nation. Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. This year will feature the most ideologically polarized election since the Reagan-Carter face-off of 1980. A radical-right Republican Party, backed by big-money interests, has...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
Democracy lost in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker kept his job only after outspending the recall movement 8 to 1. And that doesn’t even count the millions spent by secretive third-party groups. Now, they are trying to buy the November elections. To stop them, you need to...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
Ray Bradbury, whose death at the age of 91 was announced today, played an important role for an entire generation of kids like me. Important? You might even call it "lifesaving." When things around us seemed unbearable, or incomprehensible, or soul-killing, his books...
