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Sound, Fury and the IRS Mess

Sound, Fury and the IRS Mess

May 22, 2013 6:00 am
by Richard Tofel ProPublica ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but sometimes we find an article of ours to be itself a subject of...

Business & Economy»

Global Capital and the Nation State

Global Capital and the Nation State

May 21, 2013 5:42 pm
Congress exempts itself from a number of laws that apply to the private sector and the executive branch. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) by Robert Reich As global capital becomes...

Sustainability»

The Climate of Capitalism

The Climate of Capitalism

May 5, 2013 6:10 pm
by Robert L. Hunziker Capitalism, as a socio-economic system, has lifted the standard of living for untold millions of people all across the globe. It is the nuts and bolts...

Media/Tech»

Woolwich Attacks: Twitter=Real Time News

Woolwich Attacks: Twitter=Real Time News

May 22, 2013 8:00 pm
by Dario Llinares Once again, for immediate authentic news information Twitter proves to be an interesting first port of call. Working from home yesterday I took a break around...

Reflections On»

Tankers! – For God’s Sake

Tankers! – For God’s Sake

May 22, 2013 6:00 pm
by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall Three Observations: 1. In 1992 I formed The Renaissance Institute of American Churches and applied to the IRS for designation as a Tax...

Recent Articles

IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups

by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott ProPublica The same IRS office that deliberatelytargeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year. The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications [...]

Working Mother’s Day

by Robert Reich My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work. For the few with four-year [...]

The 182% Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt

by Paul Kiel ProPublica This story was co-produced with Marketplace. Listen to their coverage. One day late last year, Katrina Sutton stood at a gas pump outside Atlanta and swiped her debit card. Insufficient funds. But that couldn’t be. She’d been careful to wait until her $270 paycheck from Walmart had hit her account. The money wasn’t there? [...]

Heritage Foundation, a Harvard Conservative, and the Conservative Crackup

by Brent Budowsky It was a terrible week for the right. In my column about The GOP’s Hillary problem, I suggested why the latest attempt of the GOP to exploit the death of Americans at Benghazi will probably drive Hillary Clinton’s favorable ratings from 67 percent to 66 percent while favorable ratings of House Republicans may [...]

Where’s the Passion to Courageously Serve and Lead?

This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Watching the ginned up GOP/Republican/Tea Party ‘scandal’ over the Obama Administration’s handling of the Benghazi attack where Ambassador Stevens and three others lost their lives on September 11th of last year, has filled me with a level of personal disgust and outrage that feels unhealthy. I’m outraged [...]

Op-Ed: Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spotlights Obama’s Cruelty

By Sherwood Ross May 17th will mark the 100th day more than 100 of Guantanamo’s 166 remaining prisoners will have refused food. Their determined hunger strike may be generating global headlines but it has not moved President Obama to release this mainly Yemeni group of prisoners whose innocence is attested to by the fact that [...]

Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What’s the Matter With the Military?

by Robert Reich After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults — and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so — a Defense Department study released Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the last fiscal year, up [...]

Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on Trial

by Raymond Bonner Special to ProPublica For 30 years, Ken Anderson was the face of law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas, first as a bearded district attorney asking the court for tough sentences, and for the last 10 years handing those kinds of sentences out as a judge. Earlier this month, his beard gone, his [...]

Kansas Governor Insists it’s OK to Ignore Federal Gun Laws

by Lois Beckett ProPublica Dozens of states are considering bills that attempt to nullify federal gun laws. One such bill became a law last month in Kansas. It exempts “Made in Kansas” guns from federal regulation and makes it a crime for federal agents to enforce federal law. Attorney General Eric Holder recently wrote to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, saying [...]