- Senate extends unemployment insurance. Why such a tough sell in the House?
- Getting Walmart Workers Off Food Stamps Would Cost Customers Barely Anything
- Reich: Why the Minimum Wage Should Really Be Raised to $15 an Hour
- SeaTac, Wash., fast becoming epicenter of 'livable wage' debate
- Work-life balance: what changes could help improve yours?—"New labour laws in France protect workers from responding to emails after 6pm, and a trial in Sweden is reducing work hours to just 30 hours a week. Do these initiatives sound like a good idea to you? Or what changes could help improve your work-life balance?"
- How America is rigged for the rich—"Eric Liu says Paul Ryan gets it very wrong: The U.S.'s problem is not a culture of poverty, it is a culture of wealth destroying the value linking work to reward."
- Alabama Passes 4 Bills Restricting Welfare
- Why Is Georgia About to Pass a Law That Will Make It Easier to Send Poor People to Prison?—"After extensive lobbying, the private probation industry is poised to wield ever more power over Georgia's debtors."
- Drum: Nobody Cares What You Think Unless You're Rich
- Du Pont heir didn't go to court-ordered clinic—Send him to prison where he belongs.
- Obama blasts 'least productive Congress in modern history'
- Fed-Up Eric Holder Rips Congress: 'Unprecedented, Unwarranted, Ugly and Divisive'
- Sen. Charles Grassley plans new whistleblower-protection caucus WaPo
- Why people are not engaged in politics and policymaking – and how to fix it—"We asked former home secretary David Blunkett and other experts how to involve #peopleinpolitics. Here's what they said."
- CapitolBells.com—Leveraging social media to track bills
- How politics makes us stupid
- Busy Day For House GOP: Blocks Bills On Minimum Wage, Equal Pay, LGBT Rights, Mine Safety
- Darrell Issa Tries Tactic In IRS Probe Last Used In McCarthyism—More circus acts [WaPo] to come.
- Dems seek end to Benghazi probe; GOP presses ahead
- Poll: More than half of N.J. voters say Christie's 'Bridgegate' report was 'whitewash'
- Judge: Key BridgeGate Figures Don't Have To Give Documents To Lawmakers
- Huckabee: Men Hunt Together, Women Go To The Restroom Together—Misogynistic and homophobic Salon.
- Many doubt 1964 Civil Rights Act could pass today
- GOP Senate Candidate: Obama Is Dodging Impeachment Because He Isn't White
- Study: When whites are told they're becoming a minority, they become more conservative
- Jimmy Carter: Southern White Men Turn To The GOP Because Of 'Race'
- The Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act. What Happened Next in These 8 States Will Not Shock You.
- We Should Be in a Rage—"When will we demand the country we deserve? If we don’t like the path we’re on, we can alter it." NYT
- How to reverse a supreme court attack on democracy: fight for voting rights—"John Roberts' wrecking ball got you mad as hell? Don't take his court's electoral destruction for granted anymore."
- Clinton: Voting limits derail civil rights—"President Bill Clinton ripped the Supreme Court's conservative justices and Republicans pushing voter identification laws on Wednesday, accusing them of undermining civil rights." He also urges adding photos to Social Security cards for voter identification WaPo
- Why voting rights is the Democrats' most important project in 2014 WaPo
- Could absentee ballot controversy lead to Ohio voting probe?—"Going after the personal finances of public officials for trying to promote voter participation is unprecedented."
- Voter laws: Imposter anxiety
- Senate sends governor bill banning United Nations election monitors from Tennessee—What a waste of time.
- Wisconsin Had Best-Run Elections in U.S., So Republicans Fixed 'Em
- Report: Florida Voting Wait Times In 2012 Were Worst In the Nation
- New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line
- In the Exciting New World of Campaign Financing, Deceptive Fundraising Websites Are A-OK
- Thought money could buy an American election? You ain't seen nothin' yet—"The supreme court's relaxing of donation rules just made US elections even more undemocratic and corruptible."
- Dionne: Supreme oligarchy—"Combine McCutcheon with the decision in the Citizens United case and you can see that the court is systematically transferring more power to a tiny, privileged sliver of our people." WaPo
- The war against American citizens—"The Supreme Court’s ‘McCutcheon’ decision exemplifies the struggles against average Americans." WaPo
- RNC Chair Complains That The Supreme Court Hasn’t Done Enough To Let Rich Donors Give The GOP Money
- Revealed: Rahm Emanuel's top donor bought stock in Marriott just before it was awarded huge Chicago contract
- Why Obama's Regulators Let Wall Street Bankers Off Easy—"Remember when the economy collapsed because some people were criminally negligent and nobody went to prison?"
- SEC Goldman Lawyer Says Agency Too Timid on Wall Street Misdeeds—"Kidney said his superiors were more focused on getting high-paying jobs after their government service than on bringing difficult cases. The agency's penalties, Kidney said, have become 'at most a tollbooth on the bankster turnpike.'"
- Wall Street's wily front group: Inside story of a rental scheme's secret facelift—"How profit-hungry Wall Street landlords are secretly trying to turn themselves into a modest, lovable trade group." Salon
- Banker Who Helped Crash Housing Market Helped Crafting Mortgage Reform
- Fannie, Freddie shareholders lobby against U.S. housing reform bill
- Bank of America to pay nearly $800 million for deceptive credit card practices WaPo
- Trial of Occupy activist struggles to find jurors impartial to protest movement—"Series of potential jurors voice opposition to protest movement in trial of Cecily McMillan, who faces seven years in prison for assault on police officer."
- Office Of Outgoing JPMorgan Asia CEO Raided By Hong Kong's Commission Against Corruption
- J.P. Morgan Backs Off Russian Payment Halt
- JPMorgan fails to end lawsuit over London Whale losses
- U.S. stock markets are rigged, says author Michael Lewis
- Yes, the stock market is rigged
- The FBI Is Investigating High-Frequency Traders
- In Defense of "Flash Boys"—Felix Salmon: "[T]he big problem with high-frequency trading isn't that small investors get ripped off, it's that the system is so complex that literally no one really understands how it works or what kind of danger it poses."
- Katsuyama vs. O'Brien - who won the fight?
- The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street NYT
- Obamacare: It's Working!—"Once left for dead, the president's signature legislation is hitting its goals. And it's changing the political calculus for November."
- Obamacare Might Be Covering Way More People Than Previously Thought—Good news for those who weren't denied.
- GOP Grapples With The Unsettling Fear That Obamacare May Succeed
- Conservative Health Experts Wonder How To Coexist With Obamacare
- Gov. Rick Scott stands by two misleading campaign ads on Obamacare
- Many Obamacare Critics, Including Koch Brothers, Accepted Its Subsidies
- WSJ Editors To Conservatives: Stop Acting Crazy Over Obamacare
- The Right Searches for Obamacare Replacement, Finds Obamacare
- Forget Obamacare: Vermont wants to bring single payer to America
- This Generation of Med Students Wants a Truly Just Healthcare System for All
- Obamacare's Next Task: Break Our Dependence On The Emergency Room
- The perils of Florida's refusal to expand Medicaid—"Charlene Dill is one of an estimated 2,000 people who expected to face dire health issues due to lack of access to care."
- Maine's GOP Governor Vetoes Medicaid Expansion For Third Time
- Virginia's Medicaid expansion fight: More proof that the Commonwealth is broken
- Court Rejects Louisiana's Bid To Stop Anti-Jindal Pro-Obamacare Billboard
- Boehner Concedes on Sneaky GOP Voice Vote Expanding Obamacare: "It Was a Good Thing"
- $1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system
- Top Medicare Doctor Paid $21 Million in 2012, Data Shows
- Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report
- On Indiegogo, a miracle health device crowdfunds $730k. One problem: it might be total bullshit
- Anti-vaccine movement is giving diseases a 2nd life
- More measles outbreaks in Calif. as debate continues over vaccines
- Chili's cancels fundraiser with National Autism Association—They were planning on donating 10% of their profits to anti-vaccine truthers this month.
- Vaccinations fall, measles rise in Oregon
- Measles In Calgary: Unvaccinated Students Should Stay Home
- Australia: Court grants father right to vaccinate his children
- JHallComics: Vaccine
- Blast from the Past: Penn & Teller's Bullshit - Vaccinations
- My Heart Bleeds for OpenSSL
- Schneier on Heartbleed—"'Catastrophic' is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11."
- The Real Threat From The Heartbleed Security Flaw Is The NSA
- How Companies Are Reacting to the Heartbleed Security Bug
- How to protect yourself from the 'Heartbleed' bug
