InvestigationEnvironment, Politics Against the Grain President Obama supports billions of dollars in ethanol subsidies, arguing in part that it boosts rural economies. But the evidence shows it only benefits large-scale industrial production and cornbelt politicians — not local American farmers. Heather RogersWashington MonthlyOctober 26, 2010
InvestigationPolitics The Right’s Civil War Nationwide, Republicans are courting Tea Partiers hard. But in Florida, the GOP has sued to keep them off the ballot. Tristram KortenAlterNetOctober 26, 2010
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
NewsWorld Wikileaks Confirms: US Hikers, Detained by Iran, Were Arrested in Iraq Wikileaks today made public a classified American military report that confirms that the American hikers detained by Iran were arrested in Iraq Esther KaplanOctober 22, 2010
NewsJustice, World Bauer, Fattal to Face Trial in Iran Cindy Hickey, the mother of Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, told the AP today that Bauer and Josh Fattal, his hiking companion, will stand trial in Tehran on November 6… Esther KaplanOctober 19, 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
AnalysisImmigration Diary of a Dobbs Story Gone Viral Our Twitter feed has gone crazy. Romenesko, Olbermann, and David Carr are all tweeting it. The Huffingon Post has it front-paged; Politico calls it a “PR bomb” for Dobbs; Salon gleefully announces that Isabel Macdonald “nails [Dobbs] to the wall”… Esther KaplanOctober 7, 2010