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Larry Bossidy, former Honeywell chairman and CEO, today pointed out the under-appreciated predicament facing not only the finance industry but also the

Yup, that’s what Jane Mayer told Alternet’s Liliana Segura: the Defense Department actually hid prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross when

If Michigan lawmakers are in the mood to offer reforms that could appease parts of the Occupy Wall St. movement — though there’s no indication that they are — beefing up the the state’s rules for campaign finance disclosure might make a good start. Michigan is notorious for the huge role that secret cash plays in elections, and the top item on the list of grievances and demands produced by Occupy Detroit is controlling money in politics

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said today that Iowa has been fortunate that emergency funding for highways is soon to arrive, while additional funds for

In some corners, the anger over the AIG bonuses has turned into mindless populism that serves no purpose. That’s the viewpoint of The Washington Post, which

At least 200 people — men and women, young and old, white, black, Latino, married couples and singles — met in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Saturday evening in the first Occupy Fort Lauderdale general assembly , to voice their ideas and hopes as well as frustration and anger with corporate greed and the two-party system. Occupy Fort Lauderdale followed a very simple format: In order to have people meet and socialize, they were asked to come up front and tell their story. One meeting coordinator said, “You have grievances with the system right now; we want to hear from as many people as possible so we can make a decision on how to move forward.” Then he read the “Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.” “The big thing that we can focus on are issues of economic class,” Evan Rowe, another meeting coordinator, said

The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Rosenberg (with aid from Yochi Dreazen) has a piece that I can’t recommend strongly enough: a profile of Gul Agha Shirzai, the

Public protections against fraud hang in the balance over the upcoming SEC budget battle.

UPDATE: The survey is here. Kathie Durbin reports on the 2009 Future of American Health Survey sent out by the Republican National Committee. It’s this

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So reports Mike Allen. I’m not really sure how many minds this will actually change. Will’s never been much of a hawk, though he does represent something of a

According to the AP, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy commander and military leader, was captured in Pakistan ten days ago, which would be on or

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) has spent several months trying to draw attention to the issue of whether the census will be fair -- that is, whether it will

The company tasked with guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul stands accused of defrauding the State Department, hiring non-English speaking guards and involvement in prostitution.

The very unamused people at the Project on Government Oversight, which broke the story of ArmorGroup’s out-of-control security guards at the U.S. embassy in

Yesterday, reports emerged that liberal Democrats won’t push too hard to assist illegal immigrants under health care reform as long as the White House commits

There’s going to be a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and, for once, it won’t involve the tea parties. The Washington Post reports that

The Supreme Court ruled today that the federal government can hold some sex offenders indefinitely. Voters return to the Democratic fold, albeit narrowly, in

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) wanted to know why Gen. Stanley McChrystal was giving speeches in London -- a speech seen as detrimental and even divisive -- and 60