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 Alexander Cockburn, Op-Ed: There was the disaster when Obama said most young illegal immigrants brought to the United States as kids will not be deported. They do have to fit certain criteria. They must be under the age of 30, have been in the U.S. for at least five years, and they must also be in school, the military or have earned a high school diploma. They also cannot have a criminal record. |
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 Pat Garofalo, News Report: Just ten days ago, the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee admitted that Wall Street regulators do not have the resources necessary to do what Congress has asked of them. However, House Republicans have not acted to rectify the situation, instead bringing to the House floor a bill that would simply exacerbate the problem. |
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 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: If there is karma—a concept Haidt mistakenly equates with Social Darwinism to argue that the poor, or "slackers" and "cheaters," get what they deserve—Haidt will return in another life to the streets of Bhubaneswar as an "Untouchable." He might think a bit differently about what constitutes the moral life if he has to survive in Bhubaneswar on the bottom rung rather than the top. |
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 Toni Miles, News Analysis: Within health care spending, long-term care and health care for families facing chronic illness, disability or frailty in old age are significant competing needs. If seniors are our past and children our future, states must be free to honor one and protect the other. Medicaid is the public health insurance that supports both seniors and dependent children. |
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 Phil Rockstroh, Op-Ed: The combination of these two principles have engendered a series of generations of consumers (the practice of citizenship barely exists, at present) for whom the concept of civil engagement is so obscure that, for these sorts, sharing a city sidewalk seems a task too complicated to envisage. Individually and en masse, U.S. citizens are checked-out, lost, possessed by inertia or manic jags of distraction, feelings of hopelessness and powerless rage, and are desperate for some kind of quick fix…as if that were even possible. |
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 Peter Maass, News Investigation: Nearly every day, and often several times a day, there is fresh news of privacy invasions as companies hone their ability to imperceptibly assemble a vast amount of data about anyone with a smartphone, laptop or credit card. Retailers, search engines, social media sites, news organizations — all want to know as much as they can about their visitors and users so that ads can be targeted as precisely as possible. |
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 Mark Engler, Op-Ed: The "free trade" elite have become particularly upset about the administration's focus on go-it-alone nationalism and its disregard for multilateral means of securing influence. This belligerent approach to foreign affairs, they believe, has thwarted the advance of corporate globalization. In an April 2006 column in the Washington Post, globalist cheerleader Sebastian Mallaby laid blame for "why globalization has stalled" at the feet of the Bush administration. |
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 Fred Schulte and Michael Beckel, News Report: Prior to his nomination, Broas had raised more than $500,000 for Obama's re-election efforts. He is one of only 117 bundlers to raise at least a half-million dollars for Obama, the Democratic National Committee and Democratic parties in battleground states. During the president's campaign four years ago, he also raised between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama. |
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 Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 286 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." |
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 Robert Weissman, Op-Ed: The improved Medicare-for-All approach would eliminate the greatest waste in the health care system: the needless costs imposed by private health insurers. These firms impose hundreds of billions of dollars of excess cost on us via excessive profit-taking and executive compensation, marketing expenses, vast bureaucracies devoted to denying care, and imposition of massive paper-pushing obligations on actual health care providers. |
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 Mike Sandmel , News Report: However, of the more than 40,000 civil society representatives in Brazil last week, most had been following the preparatory talks for months with increasing frustration. They'd watched as negotiators bracketed and deleted any and all proposals that might have challenged the global status quo. Some groups had set their sights on smaller but still significant victories like the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies or the creation of a World Environment Organization on equal footing with bodies like the WHO. |
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