Anger as the Ship Goes Down (tags)
Obama's proposed banking reforms are likely to face insurmountable opposition from Congress, where lobby interests have become all-powerful. Worse still, writes George Blecher, the proposals themselves don't go far enough.
The True Cost of the War (tags)
To avert Republican gains in November, Obama must create jobs that pay into social security, reduce crippling state debts and end the lie that Afghanistan is a necessary and just war. Peace and resistance are part of our nature as antibodies are part of our bodies.