The Best of the Front Page

Archives of compelling Front Page stories (as I have the time to list them):

• Why I'm leaving Facebook || The New Yorker
• Mexico's drug war claims 50,000 dead in 6 years || The Atlantic
• The innovation economy and America resegregated || Salon
• Number working past 65 at a record high || NYT
• What Facebook co-founder owes America? (Hint: Nearly everything) || Pando
• How govt. and corporations extract money from the poor || Salon
• Polarization is real and tilted to the right || The Monkey Cage
• Corporate criminals gone wild || Salon
• Federal spending, taxes, deficit lower now than when Obama took office || The Atlantic
• Why the French economy works surprisingly well || Spiegel
• Anxiety economy: Why the future of work will be all about stress || The Atlantic
• Capitalists and other psychopaths || NY Times
• After austerity || Joseph Stiglitz/Project Syndicate
• Krugman: Fixing the economy is easier than you think || Rolling Stone
• Is Wall Street meeting God's expectations? || WSJ
• Should the rich pay more in taxes? || Zero Hedge
• How Apple sidesteps billions in taxes || NY Times
• 'Hard measures' and the legacy of torture || The New Yorker
• GOP extremist Congress: 'Even worse than it looks' || NPR
• Jon Corzine as the original George Zimmerman || Matt Taibbi
• How Apple sidesteps billions in taxes || NY Times
• Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-style scandal? || Washington Post
• TSA waste infographic || Boing Boing
• Facts RIP || The Chicago Tribune
• Why the left misunderstands income inequality || Zero Hedge
• Why austerity is destroying Europe || The Atlantic
• In America, 21st century chain gangs || Salon
• When Mormons were socialists || Salon
• Mid-incomers suffer in polarized U.S. job market || Bloomberg
• China takes aim at profitable heart of U.S. manufacturing || The Atlantic
• How to fix the debt problem without trashing government || Rolling Stone
• How China steals our secrets || NYT
• Welfare limits left poor adrift as Great Recession hit || NYT
• Why Obama's JOBS Act couldn't suck worse || Matt Taibbi
• Paul Ryan's radical budget || The New Yorker
• Keystone, Congress and Big Oil money || Yale Envionment 360
• Actually, the Reagan recovery was all about big government spending || Fiscal Times
• One big chart: There is no Social Security crisis || The Atlantic
• The incredible shrinking U.S. government || The Atlantic
• Think middle-income Americans are overtaxed? Think again || CBPP
• How the U.S. uses sexual humiliation to control the masses || Naomi Wolf
• When corporations abandoned the 99 percent || Salon
• Does anyone at Apple have a soul? || Foreign Policy
• Why are the Fed and SEC covering up for Wall Street || Bloomberg
• It's not your imagination: Republicans really don't like science || Mother Jones
• Heat waves set to intensify from New York to LA || Bloomberg
• Climate change may be close to irreversible || Scientific American
• How Oprah was bad for literature || The New Republic
• Can the world afford 2 billion more cars? || Scientific American
• Understanding the new price of oil || Zero Hedge
• The corrosive effects of a price-tag society || The Atlantic
• Bank of America: Too crooked to fail || Matt Taibbi
• How Stalin invented 'American exceptionalism' || The Atlantic
• American poverty, 50 years later || Tomgram
• Mexico's middle class is becoming its majority || Washington Post
• Average Congress member gets 1,452 percent raise when retiring and turning lobbyist || Boing Boing
• The 'hard times swindle' and other questions for Thomas Frank || Harpers
• Rising sea levels a threat to coastal states || NY Times
• The cost of America's police state || Salon
• Number of hate groups on rise in U.S. || NY Times
• How many Americans do just 10 coal mines kill? (a lot) || TreeHugger
• Big fracking bubble: The scam behind the gas boom || Rolling Stone
• The coming economic growth collapse || New Deal 2.0
• Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France || Wash Post
• Without subsidies, gas would be $15 a gallon || TreeHugger
• How the Internet is making states poor || The Atlantic
• Middle-class welfare state, invisible by design || Ezra Klein/Bloomberg
• Interactive map: Mormons in America || Slate
• Welcome to peak everything || Bloomberg
• Why not frack? || NY Review of Books
• How nanosecond trading could make markets go haywire || Wired
• How CEO pay spun out of control || Nell Minow/TNR
• The startling decline in middle-class incomes || NDN
• Afghan army to cost U.S. billions after withdrawal || Wash Post
• Robo-calling settlement could end up costing taxpayers $40 billion || Zero Hedge
• Why America keeps getting more conservative || The Atlantic
• The Tea Party's war on mass transit || Salon
• The mortgage deal is great for banks and policians — and what it says about the Obama administration || LA Times and Naked Capitalism
• Pivot from Asia to America || Prestowitz/Foreign Policy
• Critics of safety net increasingly depend on it || NY Times
• Hyping technology in classroom helps firms, not students || LA Times
• Inside the new GOP hate || Salon
• Why don't economists get the importance of manufacturing? || Foreign Policy
• State science standards are 'mediocre to awful' || Scientific American
• Blaming the poor: Charles Murray does it again || Salon
• The state of our disunion || Robert Reich
• Nearly 25 percent of Americans in low-wage jobs, higher than other advanced nations || ThinkProgress
• Fukuyama on the financial crisis || The Browser
• Overconsumption won't save America || Salon
• The truth about Obama's defense cuts: They're so modest ||Slate
• Fracking's latest victim is clean energy || Foreign Policy
• Germany has strengths America once had || LA Times
• The human costs of Apple's iPad || NYT
• Apple, America and a squeezed middle class (must-read) || NYT
• The real scandal of private equity || The New Yorker
• Want to get ahead? Move to Denmark || The Guardian
• Everything you need to know about Wall Street in one brief tale || Taibbi
• Trade enforcement: Failing to learn from history || Foreign Policy
• America's dangerously removed elite || Salon
• Fed missed signs as crisis loomed || LA Times
• Non-scary scare stories about Pentagon cuts || The Atlantic
• The myth of Japan's failure || NY Times
• Save the economy, cut defense spending || Foreign Policy
• What the frack: Is there really 100 years worth of natural gas under the United States? || Slate
• Harder for Americans to rise from the lower rungs || NY Times
• The danger in a declining middle class || Washington Post
• How Santorum became a millionaire in six years || Bloomberg
• Behind the scenes of the Gen. McChrystal affair || Rolling Stone
• How small-time house flippers made the bubble much, much worse || Slate
• Austerity, unrest and quantifying chaos || Zero Hedge
• Republicans for revolution || NY Review of Books
• The economy: What's wrong, how to fix it || Rolling Stone
• Deficits of mass destruction || The Nation
• The age of turbo-paralysis || Salon
• Frank Rich: The Molotov party || NY Magazine
• The clerk, RIP — whose job is next? Salon
• Defining issue is not government's size, but what it's for || Robert Reich
• As permafrost melts, climate change will grow || NYT
• The Big Lie that Fannie and Freddie caused the crash lives on || NYT
• Stiglitz: U.S. faces a depression without serious shift || Vanity Fair
• The trade deficit really matters || Foreign Policy
• Big oil and Canada thwarted U.S. carbon standards || Salon
• Myth and facts about Obama's indefinite detention law || Salon
• Analysts offer bleak look at American future || Washington Post
• American whites, living in a world-apart (must read) || Boston Review
• Once again, Fannie and Freddie didn't cause the housing collapse || The Atlantic
• How political extremism has doomed recovery || Talking Points Memo
• For-profit 'universities' used lobbying push to scale back rules || NY Times
• Student debt has ballooned since 1990 || Think Progress
• How the GOP became America's socialist party || New Deal 2.0
• The insane wealth of Wal-Mart's founding family || Salon
• Why school choice fails || NY Times
• Romney's job-creation record at Bain || LA Times
• For jobless, little hope of restoring better days || NY Times
• How the U.S. will become a Third World country || Zero Hedge
• World on track for nearly 11-degree temperature rise || Wash Post
• Ethics and inequality || Boston Review
• MUST-READ: Secret Fed loans helped banks maintain the status quo || Bloomberg
• Find out how companies you buy from lobbied Congress || Boing Boing
• How private interests subvert the public will || Bloomberg
• Ray Kachel's journey from Seattle to Zuccotti Park || The New Yorker
• George Will is confused by numbers at the post office || CPER
• The fracking of Pennsylvania || NY Times Magazine
• Occupy blood, sweat and tears || The Atlantic
• Keystone XL pipe dreams || MSNBC
• Stop the austerity train wreck || Robert Reich/Huff Po
• Scalia and Thomas dine with healthcare law challengers || LA Times
• The American Century is over || Salon
• Crazy talk on torture? Blame Obama || The Atlantic
• How to solve the corporate tax problem || Salon
• Selling the oil illusion, American-style || Zero Hedge
• Koch Brothers connections, an interactive guide || The Guardian
• Will the end of oil mean the end of growth? || GOOD
• Two degrees of disaster || The New Yorker
• How the rich rig the system || Salon
• The increasingly Republican states of America || The Atlantic
• Why Romney's privatization plan is crazy || Taibbi/Rolling Stone
• America's future: The reckoning begins || Foreign Policy
• Hidden toll as states shift to contract workers || NY Times
• Biggest firms paid little in taxes || NY Times
• Are we reaching the 'limits of growth'? || The Oil Drum
• Container traffic: Global treasure chests and danger spots || Wired
• Can we create the next iPad if we can't build it? || The Atlantic
• The Romney economy || NY Magazine
• Top earners doubled share of national income, study finds || NY Times
• The contract is broken || Foreign Affairs
• Our nation of vidiots || Jeffrey Sachs/Project Syndicate
• Social justice index places U.S. near the bottom || Huffington Post
• How big was the world's population when you were born? || The Guardian
• Budget cuts claim hundreds of thousands of county, city jobs || USA Today
• Subsidizing the 1 percent || Dirt Diggers Digest
• A U.S. manufacturing renaissance is possible || Foreign Policy
• Who is waging class warfare? || Daily Kos
• My advice to Occupy Wall Street || Matt Taibbi/Rolling Stone
• Debt deleveraging: The economy's silent assassin || The Atlantic
• Twisted government accounting behind postal service woes || MSNBC
• The risks of creating bio-fuels || GOOD
• The Republican war on science is un-American || Salon
• The Depression: If only things were that good || NY Times
• The most ridiculous thing you'll read about interest rates || Business Insider
• Obama is upside down on trade || Foreign Policy
• Debt and dumb || Vanity Fair
• How we lost our democracy || Rolling Stone
• The coming decline and fall of Big Coal || Rolling Stone
• California and bust || Vanity Fair
• The hardy myth of 'job creators' || Salon
• How companies killed private pensions || Wall Street Journal
• The true cost of carbon: Climate change and food security || The Atlantic
• Once again, Yergin shills for Big Oil, gets it wrong || The Oil Drum
• Getting real about peak oil || Econobrowser
• Doom: Our economic nightmare is just beginning || The New Republic
• Our foreign policy state of denial || Salon
• Some liberals finally on to Obama's betrayal of liberalism || Harpers
• How fast can China go? || Harpers
• The theft of American pensions by big companies || Salon
• Peak oil, peak debt and the concentration of power || The Oil Drum
• Soaring poverty casts shadow on lost decade || NY Times
• Study: Countries that tax the rich more are happier || GOOD
• The Republican war on voting || Rolling Stone
• Globalization and unemployment || Foreign Policy
• Our oil-constrained future || Mother Jones
• Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business || McClatchy
• Reflections of a GOP operative who left the cult || Truthout
• The economy does better when taxes are higher at the top || Daily Kos
• How the Internet is destroying the middle class || Salon
• The scariest jobs chart takes a turn for the worse || Clusterstock
• China rises as America refuses to invest in itself || Salon
• Jump-start jobs with a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan || Mother Jones
• House freshmen push bills that benefit big donors || USA Today
• Why America won't embrace the left || Salon
• Yearly bill for Pentagon's no-bid contracts: $140 billion || Wired
• The black hole of 9/11: Events that mattered more || Foreign Policy
• One billion vehicles on the road; are we ready for two billion? || Washington Post
• The scary continuity between the Bush and Obama administrations || TomDispatch
• Texas the the government are chummier than you think || Christian Science Monitor
• Wall Street elite got $1.2 trillion in secret Fed loans || Bloomberg
• The GOP's new voodoo economics || Washington Post
• Why 'business needs certainty' is destructive || Salon
• Workers' share of national income is collapsing || FrumForum
• What happened to Obama || NY Times
• One more time: How the deficit got this big || NY Times
• Climate change as our biggest national security risk || Foreign Policy
• The Tea Party, debt ceiling and white Southern extremism || Salon
• Grover Norquist: The soul of a new machine || Mother Jones
• Is less defense the best offense? || NY Times
• When did the American empire start to decline? || Foreign Policy
• 44 percent of Tea Partiers are on Medicare || GOOD
• Education takes extra beating this year || LA Times
• In Cantor, hedge funds and private equity have voice at debt-ceiling talks || Washington Post
• The chart that should accompany all discussions of the deficit and debt || The Atlantic
• Why the liberal base has so little leverage with Obama || Salon
• The great consumer collapse || NY Times
• As a watchdog starves, Wall Street is thrown a bone || NY Times
• The rise of waiters and the fall of the middle class || Good
• Where the jobs went || Foreign Policy
• The link between peak oil and peak debt || Our Finite World
• U.S. still can't account for $8.7 billion in Iraq — audit || Reuters
• Getting Fannie's role backward || The American Prospect
• Why Freddie and Fannie are not to blame for the financial crisis || NY Review of Books
• How business bought all the laboratories of democracy || Salon
• Greed, excess and our gaping class divide || Rolling Stone
• Budget cuts wrecking California's once-great universities || NY Times
• Why the Arabic world turned away from science || New Atlantis
• Frank Rich: Barack Obama's original sin || NY Magazine
• Obama's mistake: A too-small stimulus || The Economist
• No trickle down: The final nail in the supply-side coffin || Salon
• How Wall Street won and America lost || Rolling Stone
• My summer at an Indian call center || Mother Jones
• Diagnosing American decline || Foreign Policy
• Those costly social programs (for the rich) || Washington Monthly
• Why the jobs situation is worse than it looks || US News
• BMW layoffs exemplify the evisceration of the middle class || LA Times
• The three fundmentalisms of the American right || Salon
• Gasoline in the U.S. is artifically cheap: What we don't pay at the pump || Center for Investigative Reporting
• Michele Bachmann's holy war || Rolling Stone
• Little house of corporate secrets in Cheyenne || Reuters
• World's oceans in 'shocking' decline || BBC
• Despite historically low tax rates, jobs aren't returning || Daily Beast
• The reality behind the Texas jobs 'miracle' || American Independent
• What a libertarian paradise is like in reality || Mother Jones
• AARP faces backlash for joining the pain coalition, undermining Social Security || TPM
• With executive pay, rich pull away from the rest of America || Washington Post
• Joe Stiglitz: The most misunderstood man in America || Newsweek
• Michele Bachmann's unrivaled extremism || Daily Beast
• Full steam ahead for China's high-speed rail links with Asia || NPR
• Is tort reform really the key to health cost control? || Incidental Economist
• Ranking 37th: Measuring the U.S. health-care system || New England Journal of Medicine.
• How Germany's economy is succeeding || NY Times
• Top five charts on the Bush tax cuts || CBPP
• A warming planet struggles to feed itself || NY Times
• Why this time is different and the economy won't return to normal (prescient 2009 piece worth reading) || Washington Monthly
• Who created the debt mess? Baseline Scenario
• Ten-year wage gains worse than during the Depression || IBD
• Energy industry shapes lessons in public schools || Washington Post
• Think the U.S. can drill its way out of expensive gasoline? Think again || The Atlantic
• Three lies about taxes || Salon
• Where the river ends: The Three Gorges Dam and the worsening Chinese drought || Foreign Policy.
• The truth about Rick Perry's 'Texas miracle' || Salon
• Farm boom missing Main Street || USA Today
• Why Johnny can't innovate || Huffington Post
• How the changed Democratic agenda of the 1970s affected working Americans || Realitybase Journal
• The ever-expanding bi-partisan surveillance state || Salon
• Lead, prisons, crack: Explaining the drop in violent crime || Mother Jones
• There's a secret Patriot Act || Wired
• Sex trafficking of Americans: The girls next door || Vanity Fair
• Why natural gas won't fuel America in the 21st century || The Oil Drum
• Toward a new economy || The Nation
• Why they hate us: How many Muslims has the U.S. killed over the past 30 years? || Foreign Policy
• Is high taxation good or bad for the economy? || Consider the Evidence
• Graphic: How our debt happened || WaPo
• Private prisons offer little cost savings || NYT
• The web of warrantless wiretapping || The New Yorker
• Tom Ricks: Violence, veterans and apple pie. || Foreign Policy
• Texas drought has farmers on the ropes. || LA Times
• The math of heartbreak in Levittown (Your tax cuts at work) || NY Times
• How the Michael Lewis school of revisionism informs the shale-oil debate. || Foreign Policy.
• As military exits Iraq, contractors enter. || NPR
• Health-care costs more than doubled in 9 years. || HuffPo
• The people vs. Goldman Sachs. || Rolling Stone
• In the war of American decline, should we be fighting at home or abroad? || Foreign Policy
• The price of 'free' journalism || LA Times
• Obama's prosperity pledge not squaring with reality. || WaPo
• Yellowstone and climate change: The ghost park. || Men's Journal
• How perpetual war became U.S. ideology. || Foreign Policy
• Social Security: Eight facts and why understanding the program is easy. || WaPo and Mother Jones
• Nine out of 10 scientists denying climate change have money ties to ExxonMobil. || Wired
• Interrogating Saddam Hussein. || Washingtonian via Longreads
• U.S. tax burden at lowest level since 1958. || USAToday
• Climate change wilts farm yields. || Wired
• Asthma rates rise sharply in U.S. || NY Times
• Another housing calamity on the way. || New Urban Network
• The rich don't actually flee high-tax states. || NPR
• U.S. business has high tax rates but pays less. || NY Times
• Ignoring risks to boost profits at U.S. nuke plants. || Rolling Stone
• Graphic: What drives the deficit. || The Big Picture
• Even massive expansion of offshore drilling won't bring cheap gas. || Good
• 10 examples of wishful thinking in American foreign policy. || Foreign Policy
• What America makes will make America. || Foreign Policy
• America's dismal transportation infrastructure. || The Economist
• How to create 18 million new jobs by 2012. || The Nation
• U.S. teachers do more work, make less than peers. || Good
• Costs of the privatization rampage. || Harpers
• A progressive plan to address the deficit. || The Atlantic
• The science-education battlegrounds of 2011.
• What you should know about Medicare.
• Does anyone actually know how to fix the economy?
• Secet memos expose link between oil companies and the Iraq invasion.
• The importance of China's move to electric cars.
• What makes nations thrive: Creativity, money and tolerance.
• Not so smart power: Cutting foreign aid.
• Krugman: Our low, low taxes.
• Hedge-fund gamblers earn as much in one hour as an average family makes in 47 years.
• The 10 cruelest things in the budget deal.
• Border gun scandal: ATF told concerned Ariz. gun dealer to keep selling to cartels.
• College debt without a college degree.
• New Bretton Woods conference paints a grim picture for America.
• Robert Reich: Medicare isn't the problem, it's the solution.
• Nine things the rich don't want you to know about taxes.
• Some parts of the government should be permanently furloughed.
• Who wants a voucher? The GOP health-care fraud.
• The neither brave nor serious Ryan budget proposals.
• Cut taxes? U.S. is already way light on levies among advanced nations.
• What if we focused on the long-term climate gap?
• Tax cuts for the rich, on the backs of the middle class.
• Men, unemployment and disability.
• Inequality a key factor in ending growth cycles.
• Managers reap huge pay even at lagging hedge funds.
• The KSM trial decision: Cowardly, stupid and wrong.
• Why we must tax the rich.
• The top 10 worst tax avoidance corporations. And how GE avoids paying taxes altogether.
• The top 20 lobbying-crazed companies.
• Bought-off watchdogs: The SEC's revolving door.
• The Institute for Liberty: Another big business Tea Party front.
• Your tax cuts at work: China to overtake U.S. in science in two years.
• Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste.
• The great Ogallala aquifer is running dry.
• (Some of) the Pentagon's biggest boondoggles.
• Loss of the middle class: Inequality and the right.
• Chris Christie, liar.
• Inside Asia's environmentally dangerous scrap recycling business.
• China plans strict goals for energy savings.
• Why Washington doesn't care about jobs.
• Gitmo north: Inside secretive U.S. prisons.
• Why are America's largest corporations paying no taxes?
• Business as usual and the next Wall Street collapse.
• Why you should care about the next heavy metals crisis.
• Drug-resistant bacteria: To humans from farms via food.
• Does the U.S. need to give oil and gas companies $41 billion a year?
• Oil: There are no good outcomes
• Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states
• The coming misery that Big Oil discusses behind closed doors
• How the servant became a predator: Finance's five fatal flaws
• Really bas reporting on Wisconsin: Who really 'contributes' to public workers' pensions
• Money won't buy you health insurance
• Robert Reich: Why we should raise taxes on the super-rich.
• What does the Arab world do when its water runs out.
• How $31 in pot gave a mom a ten-year prison sentence.
• The great stagnation and the future of the American middle class.
• Taibbi: Why isn't Wall Street in jail?
• Boomers find 401(k) plans come up short.
• Demographics and Islamic destiny: What the future of the Muslim world looks like.
• No more unions, no more pensions — no wonder Americans can't save.
• The Koch brothers now at the heart of GOP power.
• Einstein was right: Honey bee collapse threatens food security.
• Egypt's democratic mirage: The military is the regime, stupid.
• The Pentagon's planet of bases.
• The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commissions 10 major findings.
• What really happened to 15 million American jobs.
• What sent states' fiscal picture into a tailspin.
• Behind the battle over public pensions.
• American primitivism: The rise of a new Dark Age.
• The tyranny of Defense Inc.
• The battle over the Constitution.
• Robert Bork's influence over antitrust law.
• The crying shame of John Boehner.
• Flash-crash central: High-speed trading remakes the financial landscape.
• Davos Man is different from you and me.
• How Washington learned to stop worrying and learn to love Saudi Arabia again.
• Get the energy sector off the dole.
• A brief history of welfare for middle-class Americans.
• What happens when unemployment benefits run out and people still can't find jobs?
• Warfare and corporate welfare, meet Gen. Warbucks.
• American decline — this time it's for real.
• Bundle u, it's global warming.
• How American companies dodge the repatriation tax.
• Do we want to live in the libertarians' world?
• Rebut a climate-change denier with these simple responses.
• Givers and taker states: Federal money received vs. taxes paid.
• Zombie Social Security lies: Retirement age must be raised because people are living longer.
• A citizen's guide to an oil-free future.
• The dark lord of coal country.
• How the average American consumer spends his or her paychecks.
• Clean energy gets far less subsidies than fossil fuels.
• Let's stop panicking over half-assed terrorists, already.
• Success of Wall Street and corporate looters will lead to inability to support entrepreneurship.
• We lost 8 million jobs — only 1 million came back.
• The new American averagism.
• Will WikiLeaks lead to the licensing of journalists?
• The tax deal in one graph (and remember, Obama wanted the middle-class cut extended).
• Despite fiscal crisis, Spain ramps up investment in high-speed rail.
• Do American CEOs have America's best interests at heart.
• Lifetime job guarantees make a comeback in Germany.
• While whacking critics, Obama gets his Social Security facts wrong.
• Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz's plan to cut the deficit and strengthen the economy.
• NASA maps make it clear: Climate change is happening now.
• How can the economy recover?
• The truth about the federal budget that's no one's willing to discuss.
• 'Uncertainty' isn't the real reason they're not hiring.
• The end of cheap coal.
• The rise of the dangerous American presidency.
• When the rich abandoned America, and what that means for national security.
• After Bush tax cuts, worst economic growth in decades.
• Outrageous corporate subsidies and middle-class wealth destruction.
• The establishment's strange debt fetish.
• Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless.
• The myth of charter schools.
• The return of 'starve the beast' — and why it never works.
• Farm subsidies highlight hypocrisy of 'anti-spending' pols.
• International Energy Agency: Conventional oil production peaked in 2006.
• Pleasing Republicans and bubbaland is necessary for a hit TV show.
• James Fallows: Why we need NPR.
• The Tea Party is Wall Street's best friend.
• Top incomes grew five-fold in 2009, back to boom levels.
• Fraudistan America: Nine stories the media are under-reporting.
• What 'runaway' government spending looks like.
• The American industries dominated by off-shoring and immigrant labor.
• Gore Vidal: Why America is headed for dictatorship.
• The lie behind the meme that Canadians come to the U.S. for health care.
• The dangerous instability of American plutonomy.
• Texas-sized chutzpah: Phil Gramm's revisionist history of the Depression.
• How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster.
• Seven deadly secrets Beijing doesn't want the world to know.
• Post-Katrina reality: Violence by whites against blacks.
• The billionaire Koch brothers' war against Obama.
• Civilian control of the military? Surely you jest.
• Garry Wills on Obama's Afghanistan legacy.
• The BP cover-up.
• What's really driving deficits in the years ahead.
• Fifteen economic statistics that just keep getting worse.
• Fossil fuels still dominate government subsidies.
• U.S. military spends trillions on oil.
• Tea party candidates who got rich off the government.
• The fantasy of the vast upper-middle class.
• Who is behind the 25,000 deaths in Mexico?
• The crisis of middle-class America — Financial Times.
• A food-chain crisis in the world's oceans.
• Boom in for-profit 'colleges' a bust for taxpayers.
• Stats show the severe pressure on the middle class.
• Can the planet support the old model of growth? No.
• Tax increases hurt the economy? History says otherwise.
• Top Secret America: WaPo's investigation of a hidden world beyond control.
• This year alone, China investing $100 billion in high-speed rail.
• How infrastructure investments could help U.S. economy.
• Biomass energy could prove disastrous.
• Canada's economy could teach the U.S. a thing or two.
• The Chinese coal monster.
• Appalling facts about wealth and inequality in America.
• When Washington (really) took on Wall Street.
• Ignorants abroad: Yemen the next Afghanistan and us.
• Under Obama, politics continues to trump science.
• Australia's costly desalination plants bring climate risk.
• No panacea: Electric cars could cause summer power outages.
• The vanishing American consumer and the coming trade war.
• Andy Grove: America's tech jobs machine is broken.
• Another America: The Republican platform of 1956.
• The 'free market' at work: Oil industry fights taxes while it reaps subsidies.
• Post-'00 America faces radical transformation.
• Myth: Unemployment benefits make people lazy.
• 'Profound neglect' of public transportation continues.
• You can't have high-speed rail; your future is tied up in the Fed's purchase of toxic 'assets.'
• Why the budget cutters are wrong.
• In bailout of AIG, forgiveness for big banks.
• Media increasingly fail as government watchdogs, study says.
• Chart: What caused the big deficit.
• Tar sands poised to become next fossil fuels disaster.
• Natural gas: A colossal fracking mess.
• Corporate welfare: A dirty secret of California's budget woes.
• Duh: Study says PCs hurt student grades.
• Net benefits of biomass power under scrutiny.
• The spill, the scandal and the president.
• Nine of ten states with more bloated public sector than Greece: They're red.
• Laid-off workers retrain but end up in the same spot: Jobless.
• The new poor: Blacks in Memphis lose decades of gains.
• One man's crusade against 'Christianizing' the Pentagon.
• Where the green jobs are (hint: Not America).
• Parts of Gulf were already dying before the spill.
• Ten common-sense ways to reduce oil use.
• Oil: Where it comes from, where it goes.
• Private-sector pay shrinks to historic lows.
• Cuts to child-care subsidy thwarts job-seekers.
• The decimation of newspapers and the Rand Paul disaster.
• School for scandal: The Republican class of 1994.
• Crisis actually consolidating power in elite that caused the disaster.
• The case for economic doom and gloom.
• Say goodbye to the house and the car.
• Oil-safety regulators ceded oversight to drillers.
• U.S. exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study.
• Hungry for profits from federal grants, for-profit 'universities' lure homeless, high-school dropouts.
• An economy built on fraud: Confessions of a Wall Street nihilist.
• The cost of the Party of No.
• Subprime education: The for-profit 'university' scam.
• Media laps up war propaganda from Afghanistan.
• Imagine if the Tea Party were black.
• Biggest danger facing America is greed, not 'socialism.'
• Goldman Sachs' best friends in politics.
• Peak phosphorus and why it matters.
• Teacher cuts threaten 'educational catastrophe.'
• The 10 scariest charts of the Great Recession.
• A Wall Street invention let the crisis mutate.
• Peak-oil reports rise even as media ignore them.
• Elizabeth Warren: The woman who stands between us and the next meltdown.
• Mad about taxes? Check the ongoing costs of U.S. wars.
• U.S. military warns of massive oil shortfall by 2015.
• Losing a middle-class life.
• How the financial oligarchy hiked taxes.
• China: The job killer.
• World oil demand will hit record this year.
• In mine safety, a weak watchdog (yet again).
• Don Blankenship's record of profits over safety at deadly coal company.
• China hopes to again drive U.S. rail construction — this time from the top.
• Banks move to mask risk levels.
• Pension plans still waiting for payoff from private equity.
• Jamestown 'socialism': How conservatives want to rewrite history.
• Koch Industries funding of climate-change deniers.
• Tea-party strongholds get most in federal subsidies.
• Palin left Alaska with debt equal to 70 percent of GDP.
• The Southernization of American penal policy.
• UK chief scientist: World oil reserves exaggerated by one-third.
• The myth of European spending on health care.
• The party of George Wallace?
• Al Gore: We can't wish away climate change.
• The new poor: Millions of unemployed face years without jobs.
• Taxes on the richest fell as their incomes soared.
• The big right-wing money and movers behind the 'grass roots' tea parties.
• Hispanics and high crime? It's a myth.
• The new era of joblessness and a transformed America.
• How Goldman Sachs pushed AIG to the edge.
• Toyota's success: Too good to be true.
• Health-care lobby spent $648 m. in 2009 to kill reform.
• A growing underclass with jobs gone forever.
• The sanctity of military spending.
• See who was paid off in the AIG scandal.
• Fallows: How America can rise again.
• Post-peak living and the end of retirement.
• Meet the climate killers: The most influential global warming deniers.
• Highway projects don't help ease unemployment.
• The economic illusions of the Rubin/Summers Democrats.
• U.S. growth prospects seen as bleak in the coming decade.
• Stiglitz: Five lessons we may need to relearn the hard way.
• The torrent of illegal cash along the border.
• Green tech depends on elements mined destructively.
• Banks sold bad bundled securities to clients, bet against them and won.
• Politically connected banks more likely to get bailed out.
• Why can't Americans make things? Two words: business schools.
• Desert vistas vs. solar power.
• How bin Laden escaped our grasp: The definitive account.
• Spending on public transportation creates more jobs faster.
• The inability of Americans to even imagine social democracy.
• Chart: Climate 'skeptics' vs. the scientific consensus.
• The ungreening of America.
• Gangs grow in Indian Country.
• Which countries own America's Treasury debt.
• Matt Taibbi: Obama's big sellout.
• Forget Tiger's love life: Top 10 real news stories you missed in 2009.
• America without a middle class.
• International Energy Agency calls 'peak' on OECD demand.
• Report reveals how Geithner, taxpayers were fleeced by Wall Street.
• Data points on unraveling of American society.
• Who got bailed out with AIG? We still don't really know.
• Peak oil: a primer.
• House builders sneak in a huge bailout for themselves.
• Heck of a job, Larry: A decade without Glass-Steagall.
• How massive defense spending leads to job losses.
• Americans have already suffered through a 'lost decade.'
• Why does Congress work for Wall Street? Ask 237 members who are millionaires.
• America's mass-murder addiction.
• SuperFreakonomics' lies about climate change.
• The New Yorker: Why is America so murderous?
• Will North Dakota's Bakken oil shale save car culture? No.
• Little evidence the high times in finance have translated into prosperity for the rest of us.
• Where we really stand on oil and natural gas supplies.
• Ferguson: U.S. empire in decline; 'there are no solutions'
• Airlines send maintenance overseas, costing U.S. jobs and endangering safety.
• Study: Fossil fuel hidden costs in the billions.
• Companies demanding historic givebacks from American workers.
• What peaked at the same time as oil? Lots of things.
• Paralysis in debt markets continues the credit freeze.
• While America dithers, other nations race to build high-speed rail.
• Financial regulatory reform: The politics of denial.
• Study: Planet is reaching carrying capacity. 
• The hidden challenge for big solar: water.
• The hidden depression of the 2000s.
• 100 to blame for the great crash.
• How Wal-Mart created the low-wage, part-time economy.
• China's economy roars back, complete with new jobs.
• Good money after bad: Where the bank bailout money went.
• Why hasn't the U.S been attacked since 9/11?
• Unchastened by crash, Wall Street cooks up next 'innovation': Bundling 'death bonds.'
• Surge in homeless children strains school districts.
• Taxpayers foot bills for Fannie and Freddie banksters.
• U.S. expands role as world's leading arms supplier.
• Points of comparison: How five capitalist democracies handle healthcare.
• How state budget troubles are working against the stimulus.
• Wages falling, working families forced on food stamps.
• Scenes from the violent twilight of oil.
• How Texas manufactured evidence and executed an innocent man. ("The culture of life.")
• Low-wage workers often cheated, study reports.
• Banks too 'big to fail' have grown even bigger.
• The New York Times continues to deny peak oil. Here are the facts.
• Can California be fixed?
• Real people hurt by healthcare status quo -- they just don't have millions to spend on lobbyists.
• The most outrageous U.S. lies about other nations' healthcare.
• Oil industry memo: Fund Astroturf rallies against climate bill.
• Income inequality hits an all-time high.
• Debunking NYT's high-speed rail "analysis."
• Rove took active role in firing of U.S. Attorneys, emails show.
• Officials see rise in militia groups nationwide.
• 'Death panels' are here -- thanks to the private sector.
• Hawking: I wouldn't be alive today without nationalized healthcare.
• Climate change seen as threat to U.S. security.
• Insurers' role in creating healthcare crisis and throttling reform.
• Bill Moyers Journal: Profits Before Patients.
• New warning on dwindling oil supplies from IEA.
• The excellent government healthcare that lawmakers get.
• What a country: It can take years -- if ever -- for people to bounce back to income they made before layoff.
• New study: World will warm faster than expected over next five years.
• Fear mongers spread lies to seniors to defeat Obama.
• NASA: World will warm faster than predicted over next five years.
• The new (scary) reality of joblessness.
• Blue Dogs heel when lobbyists whistle.
• Dear Mr. President: Don't get between me and my doctor, et al.
• Fifty sick states are killing recovery.
• Insurance industry cherry picks data in fight against public option.
• Under Bush, my taxes went down $250 and my health insurance premiums rose $5,000.
• CDC: Teen pregnancy, SDTs rose sharply during the Bush years.
• Why Washington ignores economic prophet Stiglitz.
• The most taboo topics in American foreign policy.
• Jefferson Beauregard Sessions and the issue of race.
• World hotspots for water conflict -- including Arizona.
• Interactive map: Patchwork nation.
• Blue-Dog Democrat districts need healthcare more than most.
• The C Street club: Jesus, totalitarianism, anything goes for powerful white men.
• China aims for global dominance in 'strategic industry' of renewable energy.
• Why Johnny don't know nothin' about science.
• Europe's 'lost generation' (coming soon to U.S.?)
• The great American bubble machine: Goldman Sachs.
• Healthcare rationing? It's happening now in America.
• Great recession evaporates inheritances for millions of Americans.
• What a 'mere' 5 percent hit to GDP from climate change would really do.
• The Air France mystery and the new crisis in aviation.
• Brokered deposits drive bank failures -- and industry fights to keep them unregulated.
• What America will look like without public option.
• The suppressed fact: Death by U.S. torture.
• Insured but driven bankrupt by health crises.
• Loophole allows GE to benefit from federal bank bailout.
• Aging in the rich world: The end of retirement.
• Shock and audit: The hidden defense budget.
• Why the financial regulatory structure is still broken.
• Ex-insurance executive: We dump sick people.
• From Prop. 13 to term limits, why California can't be governed.
• China quietly adds trade barriers to protect its economy during downturn.
• What the end of the recession looks like: Just the beginning of hard times.
• Reich: Why we need a public healthcare plan.
• Special-interest money means long odds against public healthcare.
• Inconvenient truths about 'energy independence.'
• Primary care doc shortage undermines effort to fix healthcare.
• 'Historic' Obama financial regulations let off the most dangerous risks to the system.
• The anatomy of the 'long war's' failures.
• Bill Maher: 'This is not what I voted for.'
• Barbara Ehrenreich: Too poor to make the news.
• High-speed rail: It's about time.
• Corruptistan: Many in Congress hold stakes in health industry.
• Lender's role for Fed makes economists uneasy.
• Arming up: The world's biggest spenders on weapons.
• Soros: China's influence will grow faster than expected.
• 'Blood wires' over the border keep Mexican cartels going.
• From a failed-growth economy to a steady state economy.
• The phosphorous threat to the food supply.
• Did your car cause the crisis?
• America's super-rich and the "death tax" scam.
• The stars that rose out of the projects in another America.
• Obama-blocked photos show rape, according to general's report. Update on this here.
• New threat to water supplies: Natural gas 'fracking.'
• The seven biggest obstacles to U.S. energy reform.
• Dust storms speed snowmelt in the West.
• No more crowing: U.S. jobless rate set to surpass Europe's.
• Why are Chinese and Arabs secretly buying prime farmland?
• Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient facts.
• Watch: Obama's speech on terror and the Constitution.
• The world's new numbers -- not what you might think.
• Bioweapons labs make bad neighbors, residents say.
• Coal reserves may be vastly overestimated.
• VIDEO: Escape socialism with a regulation vacation.
• The Quiet Coup -- how banks took over the American government.
• Reality bites: U.S. cuts off research for "impractical" hydrogen car dream.
• Shadow government, the top corporate lobbyists.