Government

CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts

CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts

Members of Business Roundtable, a corporate lobby advocating for cuts to retirees’ benefts, have retirement acounts more than 1,200 times the size of the median American work...

Nov 19, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

These Lawmakers Have a Plan to Rein In NSA Spying

These Lawmakers Have a Plan to Rein In NSA Spying These Lawmakers Have a Plan to Rein In NSA Spying

And it’s a bipartisan effort.

Nov 19, 2013 / Robert Scheer

Witnesses to Hunger (and Poverty) on the Hill

Witnesses to Hunger (and Poverty) on the Hill Witnesses to Hunger (and Poverty) on the Hill

Five Witnesses to Hunger came to Capitol Hill to talk poverty and hunger with Congress.

Nov 19, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

Military Stifling Support for Sexual Assault Reforms, High-Ranking Officer Says

Military Stifling Support for Sexual Assault Reforms, High-Ranking Officer Says Military Stifling Support for Sexual Assault Reforms, High-Ranking Officer Says

Commanders are also encouraging service members to lobby against Senator Gillibrand’s bill. 

Nov 15, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Rand Paul Plagiarism Revealed Rand Paul Plagiarism Revealed

The news that Paul swipes others’ words Has left observers shaken. Could being Libertarian Mean liberties are taken?

Nov 13, 2013 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 2)

Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 2) Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 2)

Big business used to buy into the center-left consensus. Then, suddenly, it didn’t. 

Nov 13, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

Elizabeth Warren to Regulators, Congress: End ‘Too Big to Fail’

Elizabeth Warren to Regulators, Congress: End ‘Too Big to Fail’ Elizabeth Warren to Regulators, Congress: End ‘Too Big to Fail’

In a speech Tuesday the Massachusetts senator offered an indictment of the enforcers and lawmakers who have failed to rein in the financial system. 

Nov 13, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 1)

Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 1) Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance (Part 1)

Despite some stutter steps backward, the relationship between business and the modern right has always advanced in the exact same basic direction: toward romance.

Nov 12, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

The True Patriots in Congress Are Trying to End NSA Tyranny

The True Patriots in Congress Are Trying to End NSA Tyranny The True Patriots in Congress Are Trying to End NSA Tyranny

A bipartisan bill would end the NSA’s bulk data collection as we know it.

Nov 12, 2013 / Robert Scheer

Survey: 81 Percent of Universities Say Sequester Has Directly Affected Research Activities

Survey: 81 Percent of Universities Say Sequester Has Directly Affected Research Activities Survey: 81 Percent of Universities Say Sequester Has Directly Affected Research Activities

According to a new survery, 81 percent of participating universities say the sequester, or federal budget cuts, has directly affected their research activities.

Nov 12, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny

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