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Predatory lending with a smiley face
Alyssa Katz
Obama is banking on "loan modifications" to help struggling homeowners -- but mortgage brokers are the real winners.
So you still want to date a banker?
Rebecca Traister
In this sinking economy, the media trots out icky cliches about spoiled women and emasculated men -- maybe because the reality is so much messier.
Salon Radio: Lanny Davis on Accountability Now and primary challenges
Glenn Greenwald
The former Clinton aide and close Lieberman ally defends his critique of primary challenges as a means to keep incumbents accountable.
Defending gay marriage
Judy Berman
A Massachusetts legal advocacy group sues to secure some of the federal rights for same-sex couples denied by DOMA.
The death throes of my newspaper
Nancy Mitchell
Before the Rocky Mountain News expired Friday, management asked staffers like me to do some strange things to keep it alive. We kept doing journalism anyway.
AIG gets $30 billion more from government
Alex Koppelman
The company just reported its bigest quarterly loss ever -- $62 billion -- but it will receive additional taxpayer money.
Dow industrials fall below 7,000
Tim Paradis
Stock market at lowest point since 1997 over bank fears.
Class warfare? Bring it on
Joan Walsh
Obama tells plutocrats ready to fight over his plans: "So am I." Plus: Will Maureen Dowd ever let Obama be a man?
Is Obama embracing the lawless, omnipotent executive?
Glenn Greenwald
To prevent a ruling on whether Bush's NSA program was illegal, the Obama DOJ is on the verge of defying a court order, and justifying its defiance with Cheney/Addington theories of executive power.
Free the chimps!
David Stipp
Our primate cousins have just had their worst week ever. But they have a lot to teach Wall Street and Obama about setting our country right.
Making every stimulus dollar work
Angela Glover Blackwell
It's not just conservatives who want to ensure money isn't wasted. Taxpayers on the ground need to be involved in picking projects that get the most bang for every buck.
William F. Buckley’s bar mitzvah speech
Mike Madden
Welcome to CPAC 2009, truly the home of the weird.
Dobson resigns as chairman of Focus on the Family
Vincent Rossmeier
The move by the 72-year-old founder of the conservative Christian group is reportedly part of a succession plan.
Women of Wall Street, on the street
Kate Harding
Forbes looks into the disproportionate number of females losing jobs in the financial industry.
This is not George Bush’s budget
Mike Madden
Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
Wherein I break one of my rules
Joe Conason
For a lot of reasons I never endorse candidates, but I'm backing Tom Geoghegan for Rahm Emanuel's old House seat in Chicago.
Bomb the middle class
Andrew O'Hehir
In an era of wealth and excess, 19th century French anarchists introduced terrorism as we know it. Can a fascinating new history help us understand our own violent times?
Lily Allen doesn’t want to grow up
Stephanie Zacharek
On her gleeful new album, the British pop star defends her right to have good sex and be just a girl -- in the best possible way.
The dark lesson of Bernie Madoff
Robert Burton
The financier ripped off his lifelong friends and clients with callous precision. He should be a case study of human cruelty.
We’re on the brink of disaster
Michael Klare
Violent protests and riots are breaking out everywhere as economies collapse and governments fail. War is bound to follow.
States of panic
Mark Schone
There's fiscal chaos in capitals coast to coast and the stimulus didn't stop it. A tour of the mayhem, from the nearly bankrupt, like California, to the flush.
Small crack appears in House GOP wall
Alex Koppelman
The House passed an omnibus spending bill on Wednesday with 16 Republican votes, which isn't many, but it's something.
Bowing down to the Taliban
Susanne Koelbl
Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the Islamists plan to introduce Sharia law.
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