InvestigationPolitics Tea Party, Inc. The Tea Party is widely seen as a grassroots movement, but powerful corporate players are pulling the strings. A guide to the monied infrastructure behind the right wing’s latest uprising. Adele M StanAlterNetOctober 25, 2010
InvestigationWorld Aftermath Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World Nir RosenNation BooksOctober 15, 2010
InvestigationBusiness The BofA Mortgage Settlement Fiasco The “biggest loan modification in American history,” announced in October 2008, has done more to protect Bank of America than to compensate victims of predatory lending. Alex UlamThe NationOctober 15, 2010
InvestigationJustice The Most Wanted Surrogates in the World Cash-strapped and alone on the home front, military wives are being targeted as potential surrogate mothers because of their economic vulnerability — and excellent health benefits Habiba Nosheen & Hilke SchellmannGlamourOctober 12, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Politics, World Deportation Horror: From Texas to Bangladesh Texan Shahed Hossain, a US green card holder, was deported to Bangladesh just for telling a border guard that he was a citizen. He’s but one casualty of President Obama’s policy of mass deportations. Brian Palmer & Seth Freed WesslerColorlines.comOctober 10, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Labor Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite While he railed against “illegal aliens” and their “illegal employers,” undocumented immigrants tended to Lou Dobbs’ estates and prize horses. Isabel MacdonaldThe NationOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Labor Indocumentados trabajaron para Dobbs Lou Dobbs regularmente arremetía contra los “empleadores de ilegales.” Sin embargo, el propio Dobbs utilizó mano de obra de indocumentados para que trabajaran en sus propiedades multimillonarias y que atendieran los caballos que le tiene a su hija Hillary. Isabel MacdonaldEl DiarioOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationBusiness Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis Long-term unemployment has risen to historic levels, producing a devastating effect on the hearts and minds of jobless Americans — and particularly on hard-hit older workers. Andy KrollTomDispatchOctober 5, 2010
InvestigationBusiness, World An Ugly Exploration The BP spill raised the stakes for offshore oil exploration. So will oil companies regain an appetite for drilling in conflict zones? A close look at Ethiopia, where several foreign oil companies are implicated in human rights violations. Jonathan EwingThe World Policy JournalSeptember 30, 2010
InvestigationJustice, World Dangerous Liaisons American evangelicals are losing ground at home in the culture war against homosexuality, but they’ve exported their hate politics to Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and beyond. Jeff SharletAdvocateSeptember 29, 2010