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Amy Goodman, Op-Ed: Wal-Mart has historically shrouded its business practices by engaging subcontractors to perform tasks like warehousing and delivery. In Elwood, Ill., warehouse workers employed by Wal-Mart subcontractor RoadLink went out on strike immediately after a similar strike in California. According to Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), "warehouse workers labor under extreme temperatures, lifting thousands of boxes that can weigh up to 250lbs each. Workplace injuries are common; workers rarely earn a living wage or have any benefits." 
Mike Spahr, News Report: "The committees rarely discipline their own, instead providing advisory opinions that generally give support and justification to lawmakers who take actions that intersect with their personal financial holdings, according to interviews with nearly a dozen ethics experts and government watchdog groups. And though Congress has required top executive branch officials to divest themselves of assets that may present a conflict, lawmakers have not asked the same of themselves." 
Margaret Dieringer and Thomas Magstadt, Op-Ed: There is no bag lady in the back story and Romney didn't write the poem. Here's what really happened: Willy Mitt found it on the sidewalk in front of his Lake Winnepesaukee vacation home in New Hampshire, threw a wild party with a juice bar that wouldn't quit, and to liven things up produced a poem he said he'd written just that afternoon and read it aloud. But he made the mistake of leaving it on the kitchen counter. 
Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed: "He made Timothy Geithner, who as head of the New York Federal Reserve branch during the Bush administration, had ignored the scandalous derivatives scandals that brought on the financial crash, his Treasury Secretary, and Lawrence Summers, who as Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton, had pushed for the deregulation of derivatives, and for allowing banks to merge with investment banks, and who during the Bush years earned millions as a consultant to the hedge fund industry and from speaking fees provided by Wall Street banks, got the post of head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors." 
Suevon Lee, News Analysis: "Public broadcasting also happens to be a popular target among conservatives, who've long portrayed it as an example of wasteful government spending (in the mid-90s, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed pulling federal funding from the CPB altogether). Romney's no exception on the campaign trail. As ABC News' The Note reports, last week's debate wasn't the first time Romney has suggested Sesame Street seek outside advertisers to earn its keep." 
Infographic: So, we took a closer look at how they earned their degrees, where they started in grade school, and how they managed to afford their educations. It's all right here in an easy-to-read infographic. Apparently, the road to The White House isn't cheap. Both candidates chose pricey private school educations that ended with advanced degrees from Harvard. Can a president educated in an ivory tower understand the stresses of the public school system and the challenges a public school student faces? Whoever wins, we'll soon find out. 
Peter Van Buren, Op-Ed: "It was D.C. on autopilot last week for domestic issues; the next two presidential debates are to be in part or fully on foreign policy challenges (of which there are so many). When it comes to foreign -- that is, military -- policy, the gap between Barack and Mitt is slim to the point of nonexistent on many issues, however much they may badger each other on the subject." 
Anthony Gucciardi, News Report: "In the email, the biotech scientist known as 'Ed' explains how he thinks it's absolutely 'awesome' that GMOs are contributing to infertility, as he believes the world is overpopulated. He also attacks me personally for my work on warning the public over the dangers of GMOs (particularly the latest news over the research linking GMOs to organ failure and tumor development)." 
Isaiah J. Poole, Op-Ed: "At the same time, it would further cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires by lowering the top tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, eliminating the alternative minimum tax that is intended to keep wealthy individuals from piling up exemptions and deductions that cause them to evade paying tax altogether, and keeping in place the lower tax rate on capital gains that has the effect of allowing people like Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to pay a lower tax rate than many of the hourly employees who have worked for him and his businesses." 
Sarah McHaney, News Analysis: "Guatemala, which is particularly dependent on corn imports, paid 28 million dollars in 2010 alone, or more than 10 percent of the Guatemalan government's annual expenditures on agricultural development. That was also six times the amount of U.S. agriculture aid received and almost equalled the amount of food aid that Washington gave to Guatemala. Even developing countries that grow enough corn to export it are feeling the effects of the U.S. biofuel mandates." 
Michael Beckel, News Report: "According to records filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Energy Foundation doled out more than $97 million in grants in 2010 to projects aimed at the adoption of stronger fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, the promotion of renewable energy technologies and the retirement of existing coal-fired power plants, among others. Against that backdrop, the American Action Forum stands out as an unlikely beneficiary." 
Alan Blankstein, Op-Ed: "Collaborative efforts to close the achievement gaps, to effectively use data, to build and network school and district leaders, and join with entire school communities to focus on the whole child. The National Education Association, some three million strong created a separate cadre called the Priority Schools Campaign to help educators, communities, and school districts effectively collaborate on the use of school improvement resources." --
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