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- U.S. Charges 530 in Mortgage Probe With $1 Billion in Losses
- Mitt Romney Abortion Stance Changes, As Candidate Says He Won't Push To Restrict Access
- Romney's "47 Percent" Blunder Reveals the Hidden Heart of His Agenda
- Mitt Romney and the Pretense of Truth -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Romney’s Oil Plans: A Global Warming Threat to America’s Agricultural Businesses -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Five Financial Reasons Republicans Will Turn Middle Class Into Indentured Servants -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- U.S. Files Civil Mortgage Fraud Suit Against Wells Fargo
- Make the Case in the Next Debate, Mr. President
- Occupy Atlanta Joins Forces With Police to Save Retired Detective's Home
- What Romney Does Not Want Discussed (He would rather the media keep covering last weeks debate)
- Dem Pollster Delivers Wake Up Call to Obama
- Mexico Confirms It Killed Gang Kingpin; Gunmen Steal Body
- Billionaire CEO Threatens To Fire Employees If Obama Wins
- Should Obama Supporters Start Freaking Out?
- Still Classified: Terror Suspects’ Own Accounts of Their Abuse
- Potentially Ominous Sign For Romney In Today's Gallup Numbers
- Stop Reading The Polls. Start Reading The Debate Transcript.
- VIDEO: Soledad O’Brien Grills Romney Adviser over "Completely Contradictory" Foreign Policy
- "Massachusetts activists have announced plans to sue the owners of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for what they say is the continuous pollution of Cape Cod Bay over the last 16 years."
- Supreme Court Refuses to Block Chevron's $18.2 Billion Verdict for Pollution in Ecuador
- 10 Things You Should Know About the Post-Debate Polls
- Desperate Greeks Greet Germany's Merkel with Anti-Austerity Message
- Why Political Moods Matter
- VIDEO: NYPD Arrests Veterans Reading the Names of Afghan War Dead
- Ohio Secretary Of State To Appeal Early Voting Decision
- Mitt Romney Lies to the World
- Netanyahu Announces Early Elections
- Did Obama Just Throw The Entire Election Away?
- Former GE CEO Jack Welch Can't Take the Heat, Quits Fortune Magazine After Taking Flak for Jobs-Numbers Conspiracy Talk
- Disaster on Autopilot
- Supreme Court Lets Stand Telecom Immunity In Wiretap Case
- The Book On Mitt Romney: Here Is John McCain's Entire Opposition Research File
- Costa Rica to Ban Hunting for Sport
- Arkansas State Rep: "If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?"
- Walmart Strikes Spread to More States: The first-ever walkouts by warehouse workers and store employees are a game-changer
- Don’t Let Voters Forget Romney’s "47 Percent" Comments
- Sioux Racing to Find Millions to Buy Sacred Land in Black Hills
- Arkansas Republican Party Pulls Funding for Candidates Who Praised Slavery
- High Court Won't Hear Case Against Halliburton
- Walmart Warehouse Workers Declare Victory
- Despite Court Order, At Least Five Pennsylvania Counties Still Telling Voters They Need ID To Vote
- VIDEO: Paul Krugman Blasts Media Over Presidential Debate: Press Can't "Handle Flat-Out Untruths"
- Deadly Meningitis Outbreak Highlights The Need For Strengthened FDA Regulations
- Schumer To Dems: Abandon Simpson-Bowles Tax Model
- Jerry Sandusky Sentenced to At Least 30 Years
- "Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted forbids boards of elections from calling/emailing voters about absentee ballot mistakes"
- Go For the Jugular: What a principled counterattack campaign against the GOP would look like.
- Ex-Powell Aide on Romney's Foreign Policy Team: "These People Make Me Sick"
- Democrats Shift Money in House Races as Map Evolves
- Romney's Stake in Chinese Stocks
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart Mocks Claim That Obama "Cooked" Jobs Numbers: 7.8 Percent Is "A Sh**ty Recipe"
- Why Harry Reid Hates Mitt Romney
- GOP: Gays Out Of the Party
- Another Post-Debate Poll Shows Romney With A National Lead
- VIDEO: Colbert: Jobless Rate "A Little Too Barely Better To Be True"
- Big Gaps in Romney Plan on Pre-Existing Conditions
- Scott Brown Retakes Lead from Elizabeth Warren in New Poll
- One in Five Americans Reports No Religious Affiliation, Double the Number Since 1990
- How to Know Whether Romney has Really Changed the Race: Ohio
- The “Saturday Night Live” Version of the First Presidential Debate
- Ryan Trash-Talks Biden Before Debate
- WI Gov. Scott Walker Subpoenaed in Former Staffer’s Trial
- Penn State’s Sandusky to Be Sentenced Today
- "Susceptibility to brainwashing is apparently an inherited trait. If brainwashing accounts for a change in position, George’s son Mitt has had his gray matter cleansed more often than most people shampoo their hair."
- Tax Him: Megachurch Pastor Uses Sermon to "Endorse Jesus" but Encourages Voting for Romney
- VIDEO: Paul Ryan Walks Out On Local Reporter For Pressing Him On Taxes
- Four Ways Ohio and Others Have Toughened Voting Rules
- Limerick: Ode To “Tough Guy” Romney
- Mexican Navy Says It May Have Killed Wanted Drug Lord
- California Gas Prices Prompt Calls For Investigation From Sen. Dianne Feinstein
- Mexico: Failed State or Economic Giant? (Video)
- SATIRE: In Bold Foreign Policy Speech, Romney Proposes a ‘Two-Mitt’ Solution
- Illinois Wal-Mart Supply Workers Win Pledges, Back Pay
- No, this isn't a headline from "The Onion": Charlie Fuqua, Arkansas Legislative Candidate, Endorses Death Penalty for Rebellious Children in Book
- 'I can't afford to live like this': VA weeks, months late paying student veterans
- Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon supports non-existent federal law protecting marriage equality
- Bill Moyers | The Rise of Hispanic America
- A New Evangelical Scam to Invade Public Schools
- How to Avoid Genetically Modified Food
- The Battle for Ohio: Can Obama Keep His Lead?
- The greenest mile: Chicago pushes the limits on sustainable streets
- E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Campaign’s Moral Hole
- Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border: A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
- Backed by court, East Jerusalem settlement expands into Palestinian home
- Dutch court rejects Shell bid to ban Greenpeace protests
- Beneath Their Judicial Robes: Who are the men and women who preside over America's highest court?
- Assange Cash Backers Ordered to Pay £93,000
- Mitt Romney Calls for Arming of Syrian Rebels
- Veterans and Allies Arrested in New York as Afghanistan War Enters Year 12
- California's Not-So-Public Higher Ed
- Michele Bachmann Shows Up at Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Strategy Session
- Four Cynical Ad Campaigns by Corporations Desperate to Persuade Us That They're Not Evil
- Paul Krugman | Truth About Jobs
- 12 Questions in 2012 Election
- Did Mitt cheat? Sure looks like it...
- More Evidence That Fracking Waste Is Poorly Regulated
- Hidden Rival of Charter School Growth: Home-Schooling
- US Runs Out of Funds to Battle Wildfires
- New McCaskill Ad Slams Akin on "Legitimate Rape" (Video)
- Will SCOTUS make it illegal to resell your stuff?
- Five Practical Reasons Not to Vote Republican
- Wall Street’s War Against the Cities
- The Unbelievable Ways Schools Are Now Monitoring Children - Even What They're Eating
- 10 Conspiracy Theories Hatched by Conservative Fearmongers as Election Day Nears
- Controversial New Verizon Contract Divides Union
- Watch: Jon Stewart Debates "Mayor of Bullsh*t Mountain" Bill O’Reilly
- Debunking Columbus Day: A Legacy Of Greed, Slavery and Genocide
- Walker-Related "John Doe" Trials Get Underway This Fall
- Big donors give far and wide, influence out-of-state races, issues
- Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box: Labor flexes its political muscle in the Midwest
- Michigan Landowners Quietly Rack Up Court Victories in Pipeline Fight With Enbridge
- Could Washington state elect the greenest governor in the nation?
- Barack Obama: The $1 Billion Candidate
- Election Countdown 2012: Elizabeth Warren Still Ahead of Scott Brown in Poll of Likely Voters, and More
- Glenn Greenwald | The US Presidential Debates' Illusion of Political Choice
- Obama swings through Calif., Ohio, Va.
- Movements Need Politicians - and Vice Versa
- Sharing Medical Records With Patients
- Howard Zinn | A People's History of the United States - Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
- Mitt Romney Debates Himself (Video)
- How Netanyahu's "Bomb Iran" Ploy Failed
- Charters Do Not Outperform Unionized Schools
- Composer, Musician and Beat Movement Pioneer David Amram
- Chávez Re-Election Continues Trend of Left Governments Re-elected in South America
- Was Jesus Married? A Religion Scholar Decodes the Clues
- No surprise here: Congress members back legislation that could benefit themselves, relatives
- Dean Baker | Social Security: President Obama's Biggest Failure in Last Week's Debate
- Arkansas GOP calls candidates' statements 'offensive'
- "The President Was Warned Security Was Lacking, and Did Nothing."
- What Didn't Get Debated Last Week
- Coal Workers Say Murray Energy "Coerces" Them to Make GOP Donations
- As Governor, Romney Disapproved of Funding Multiple Sclerosis Services
- Chris Hedges: The Maimed Amongst Us
- Disturbing News: Exit Polling to Be Scrapped in Some 19 States, Allowing for Much Easier Manipulation of Election Results
- Reflections on "Columbus" Day
- Does Your Vote Count?
- Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit
- Gray Panthers, Raging Grannies and savvy seniors
- Europe Still at Odds Over the Workings of Its Bailout Fund
- E. J. Dionne Jr. | Romney's Personality Shift
- Chavez Wins New Term in Venezuela
- Virginia Voters Warm To Romney After Debate, But Race in State Hardly Changes
- As Military Suicides Rise, Focus Is on Private Guns
- Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution on the Line in Crucial Election -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Obama in the First Debate: Terrible Performance or Political Rope-a-Dope? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- With 19 States Deprived of Exit Polls, the Blind are Even Blinder -- Jonathan Simon for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Mitt Romney's Debate Strategy: The Audacity of Mendacity -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How the G.O.P. Became the Anti-Urban Party
- Maher VIDEO: Hey climate change deniers: “What are we gonna develop that replaces Iowa?” Oceans, marine life, seafood industry now at risk.
- Jerry Sandusky's victim have chance to address him at sentencing hearing
- Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister on Romney: “What I see is ignorance of what is reality.”
- Has Romney Caught up With Obama in Wisconsin?
- Capitol Assets: Congress’s wealthiest mostly shielded from effects of deep recession
- Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly rumble, and zingers fly
- Tea Party Voter Suppression Group Under Investigation for Possible "Criminal Conspiracy"
- Wealthy Congress Did Well During the Recession
- Michigan CEO "Tells" Employees to Vote for Romney or Else
- Romney's Attack on Big Bird Was Calculated
- Walmart Warehouse Strikers to Return to Work with Full Back Pay
- "The Measure of a Nation" Challenges Illusions of American Superiority
- Newt Gingrich: Romney ‘Changed’ On Taxes
- Paul Krugman: The Press Doesn’t Know How To Handle Political Lies
- 30 Days Out: Fundamentals Still Favor Obama
- Paul Ryan: "Let's Make This Country a Tax Shelter" (VIDEO)
- Some in G.O.P. Choose to Return to Akin’s Corner
- Congressman opens voting rights probe of tea party group
- WHEN THE POLITICAL PENDULUM SWINGS
- Joseph Stiglitz tells jobs ‘truthers’ the idea of a conspiracy is ‘literally absurd’
- Could the Western Sahara Blow Up?
- Senate battle hits Big Sky country
- Scant Oversight of Drug Maker Leads to Fatal Meningitis Outbreak
- The Emperor's New Hump The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election
- Phoenix City Council Considering Local ID for Undocumented Immigrants
- The BLS jobs numbers the GOP won't talk about
- Americans donate $7 million toward $16-trillion U.S. debt
- Guy Ryder: Teaching is a profession under siege
- Eight of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s Wildest Comments
- Advertising on Television Rockets, as Super PACs Pour in the Dough: Total Spending $5 Billion
- Crackdown on medical marijuana
- Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: the Mystery of the Stranger on the Stage
- Best Line of the Debate
- Murder of Miami’s ‘Cocaine Queen’ Offers Teaching Moment
- Living in Some Parts of Chicago Can Take More Than a Decade Off Your Life
- Are Liberals Really ’50-50′ Over The Jon Stewart-Bill O’Reilly Rumble
- Manila and Rebel Group Take Step Toward Peace Plan
- Police officer fatally shoots naked student at University of South Alabama
- MIRROR IMAGES: ISLAMISM AND CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
- Gingrich Admits Romney Wasn’t Honest About Tax Plan During Debate
- Republican says evolution, Big Bang theory 'lies straight from the pit of hell'
- Life in Waziristan, 2012 “AD” | Truthout