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In a blatant attempt to deliver the upcoming election to Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, more than a dozen Republican-leaning state legislatures have passed voter suppression measures ostensibly meant to fight voter fraud. Unless the Department of Justice successfully challenges these laws in court, hundreds of thousands of voters will be deprived of their rights ...
By JACOB HACKER and NATHANIEL LOEWENTHEIL The political fight over America’s ailing economy is dominated by one word: debt. For most Americans, however, the real problems are jobs and growth — we don’t have enough of either. Yet our political system seems incapable of tackling the true crisis. Republicans, to be sure, have called for ...
Global megabanks have had a tough summer. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase and a vociferous opponent of restrictions on reckless risk-taking by big banks, presided over large losses because of exactly such behavior in the company’s London office. HSBC, which prided itself on a uniquely decentralized management model, was found to have ...
Hundreds of ALEC’s model bills and resolutions bear traces of Koch DNA: raw ideas that were once at the fringes but that have been carved into “mainstream” policy through the wealth and will of Charles and David Koch. Of all the Kochs’ investments in right-wing organizations, ALEC provides some of the best returns: it gives ...
August has been a dangerous month in European history, but this year it could be the turning point for the eurozone – and perhaps for the world economy. On July 26, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, declared that his institution would do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro, and added: “Believe me, it will ...
Many people are following the presidential election closely with the idea that the outcome will have a major impact on national policy. However, according to Steven Pearlstein, a veteran Washington Post columnist and reporter, it may not matter who wins the election. In a column last week, Pearlstein told readers that the top executives of some of the ...
THE 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the presidency—promises to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties, and their core constituents, believe that the stakes are exceptionally high; neither party has much trust in the goodwill or good intentions of the other; and, thanks in part to the Supreme Court, money will ...
The Olympics aren’t the only thing happening across the pond these days. The Bank of England is about to launch a creative “Funding for Lending Scheme” to boost bank lending. Importing this British product to America would require some adaptations to the U.S. system, plus cooperation from the Treasury and maybe even from Congress. (The ...
Eyal Press’ book “Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times” is a stunning, deeply stirring collection of true stories about the most unlikely of heroes: four men and one woman who chose uncomfortable, and in some cases potentially lethal, courses of action because they could envision doing ...
Professor Michael Malbin participates in a panel discussing Citizens United, the effectiveness of increased spending on elections, undisclosed donors, the impact of redistricting on campaign finance, and the McCain-Feingold campaign reform act at the Bipartisan Policy Center on July 31st, 2012. View at CSPAN
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