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It seems, on the face of it, a theory too absurd to even be taken seriously: A ragtag band of anti-poverty activists pushes the White House into forcing lenders to make bad loans to poor and minority borrowers, setting off a subprime loan crisis that puts the entire global economy at risk. Yet in the […]
You’re a politician who’s just been exposed for cheating on your spouse. Your political career is over, right? These days, that might depend on your politics—and your relationship with a certain right-wing cable news show. After revelations of an affair with an aide during the 2008 primaries, John Edwards’ career fell off the face of […]
During the week of September 15, the country’s economic leaders did a quick 180-degree turn: They went from assuring us that the economy was just fine to telling us that the bottom was about to fall out and a second Great Depression loomed just over the horizon. The one hope was a massive $700 billion […]
“The start of a new year is a good time to take stock,” wrote the Washington Post on January 3, 2007, “and there are few better indicators of our long-term economic prospects—and also our prospects for political and social peace—than productivity.” Yet while productivity, or output per hour, rose an average 2.5 percent annually between […]
With Sen. Hillary Clinton’s historic bid for the presidency and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s subsequent VP nomination on the GOP ticket, women were in the national spotlight in the 2008 election as never before. But while Clinton and Palin generated a good deal of media discussion around the problems facing female candidates, coverage of women […]
When a Mandate Isn’t a Mandate Columnist Robert Novak (Chicago Sun-Times, 11/5/08) wrote that Barack Obama’s victory didn’t measure up to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first re-election in 1936, when “the defeated Republican candidate, Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, won only two states, Maine and Vermont, and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress by wide margins.” […]
Frightened and Sickened by Islamophobia Just had to contact you after reading both “Smearcasting” (Extra!, 11-12/08) as well as your article in Friday’s Huffington Post (10/10/08)—great job! I only wish you had included Ayan Hirsi Ali, author of Infidel, in your list of Islamophobes—I think she’s single-handedly smeared Islam among so many average American women […]
