- Krugman: A War on the Poor—"What happened to the Republican Party? It's almost as if the party is solely focused on its hostility to the less fortunate." NYT
- Our family will lose $44 in food stamps—"Several families told CNNMoney their food stamps usually don't last a full month. They eat a lot of rice, beans and pasta."
- Oh SNAP, veterans get dissed by the GOP—"Remember how the likes of Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin railed against President Obama for the cuts to veterans' benefits that resulted from the Cruz-caused shutdown?" WaPo
- Sen. Sanders: The right way to make a federal budget
- Congratulations, America! Your deficit fell 37 percent in 2013 WaPo
- Time to Jail the Banksters—"Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine, joins Thom Hartmann. It didn't take Wall Street's allies in the financial media long to start whining about JPMorgan's $13 billion settlement with the federal government. But is that record fine really as bad as the people on CNBC say it is?"
- U.S. senators Menendez, Warren press SEC over political spending—"Our collective job is to urge them. Push them. Harass them until they do the right thing."
- JPMorgan settlement is justice, not a shakedown—Will it stop them from doing more financial manipulations? WaPo
- Barclays suspends currency traders—"UK bank Barclays has suspended six traders as part of a probe into suggestions that currency markets could have been rigged, the BBC has learnt."
- Fannie Mae sues nine banks for rigging Libor
- House Passes Deregulation Bill Written by Citigroup
- Billionaire Steven Cohen's hedge fund could pay $1B fine in fraud case: sources
- Lloyds head Antonio Horta-Osório to see £2.5m bonus at bailed-out bank
- Alan Greenspan owes America an apology—"The former Fed chair is promoting his new book. He should admit his role in the housing crisis, not insult our intelligence."
- Ariz. man arrested for selling someone else's home
- Special Report: U.S. builders hoard mineral rights under new homes
- Voters' Anger Over Shutdown Is Inspiring Democrats to Run—"Previously reluctant Democrats in places like Arkansas, Florida, Nebraska and New Jersey are suddenly deciding to challenge Republicans for House seats." NYT
- Florida's Former G.O.P. Governor to Run for Job as Democrat—"Charlie Crist has filed paperwork to run for his old job with his new party." Center-right is the new left. NYT
- GOP 'extremist movement' prompts NC candidate to switch to Democrat
- Romney Donors Back Democrat Over Tea Party in Georgia
- Wendy Davis Hits Cruz On Role In Shutdown
- McDaniel Now Says He Only Attended One Neo-Confederate Event
- Ted Cruz's Dad: I'd Like To See Obama Go 'Back To Kenya'—Él es un racista loco.
- Poll: Growing Number of Republicans Dislike GOP WSJ
- Opponents Score A Victory Against Arizona Voting Restrictions
- The Right to Vote—"Shelby County v. Holder; which eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, is leading to a new era of voter suppression that parallels the pre-1960s era."
- Everything That's Happened Since Supreme Court Ruled on Voting Rights Act
- George Will: Who Cares About Corruption? Citizens United Is "Excellent"
- The U.S. Needs a Constitutional Right to Vote—At the least, election day should be a federal holiday.
- The Lies That Will Kill America—"The fawning coverage of crony capitalists by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. does America a disservice."
- The Daily Show: Wit Happens—"The media uses Jon's lampooning of the Affordable Care Act as evidence of its impotence."
- Media mayhem divides and misleads us—"CNN, MSNBC, Fox, they're all responsible."
- Star Benghazi "Witness" May Not Have Been an Actual Witness—"For weeks, it seems, Jones tried to profit off his brush with disaster. In a Fox News report on Monday, reporter Adam Housley said his source relationship with Jones ended after he insisted upon receiving money." Foreign Policy
- David Brock Calls On CBS To Retract Faulty Benghazi Story
- First on CNN: US commandos were poised for raid to capture Benghazi suspect
- NSA Files: Decoded—"What the revelations mean for you."
- Snowden Asks U.S. to Stop Treating Him Like a Traitor—"In a letter handed to a German politician, the former intelligence contractor says that 'my government continues to treat dissent as defection.'" NYT
- GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance—"Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies."
- Senate Intelligence Committee passes NSA bill critics say doesn't go far enough
- EFF: being forced to decrypt your files violates the Fifth
