Richard (RJ) Eskow: Now that Larry Summers is leaving, the president has a decision to make that will send a signal about the next two years of economic policy. That signal can restore consumer confidence and reinvigorate the electorate, or it can lead to even more discouragement and despair. This week unnamed administration officials floated the idea of naming a corporate executive to the position. That's a trial balloon that should be punctured immediately. Click here to read more.
Wall Street starts a worldwide recession and donors are contributing less money than ever to the ambitious UN plan to slash poverty. But the world body nonetheless believes it can garner a startling $40 billion in new money.
A crackdown on the scoundrels behind Medicare and Medicaid fraud will help cover the costs of health reform, allowing us to keep the services so many American rely on and reduce the deficit.
In this age of 'can you top this?' gorefests and remakes of '80s horror classics, Devil is a genuinely original scary movie that startles rather than repulses.
Obama had absolutely nothing to do with the causes of the financial meltdown, but he wasted two precious years being misled by Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner as to how to respond to it.
Sometimes being a person of faith--being a person in general--means putting the needs of another before one's own. Christopher Hitchens neither wants nor needs our prayers. This is hateful to him. The rest is commentary. Go and learn it.
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