Category: people

Digby: This is what all the politicians are pussyfooting around right now. Both presidential candidates are on the populist field but they are playing different...

I just heard part of Terri Gross’ interview with Maher Arar, the Canadian who was kidnapped by the U.S. (our public servants) and dropped off in Jordan / ...

Wow: More than a billion AIG shares changed hands, a record for the company that was also nearly 30 times the daily average activity so far this year. The AIG a...

The final graph of an epic article: Outside the public eye, Fed officials had acquired much more information since March about the interconnections and cross-ex...

a few weeks ago i wondered if the Olympics would be the environmentalist blockbuster of the summer. a blockbuster? without a doubt. environmentalist? sorta. las...

There are 1,321,851,888 Chinese and one Premier. There are 301,139,947 Americans and one President. The Chinese political system has to endure over four times t...

Jane Mayer in the The New York Review of Books: …at almost every turn along the way, the Bush administration was warned that whatever the short-term benef...

New York Magazine via Josh Marshall: The alternative, of course, is to get on offense, to batter McCain for his gaffes and incoherence, hammer him for his flip-...

This is what happens when you have a real opposition party: Over the last ten days or so, the President and the McCain campaign (who are clearly working in coor...

This is cursory judgment but no less informed than much of what I hear from pundits on television. According to this book review, cited by Matthew Yglesias, the...

Ouch: Yet, now that he is the presumptive nominee, Obama is standing not with Feingold, but with Bush and the special interests Obama once denounced. He says he...