The Best of the Front Page

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

• 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.