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Henry Waxman, 2008. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP It is an axiom of public life that if extreme crises bring out the worst in human nature, they also bring to the surface what is best. So it is with the world financial meltdown,...
Here’s another bit of chilling news from the financial follies: Last week, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California warned that the Golden State may ask the feds for an emergency loan of $7 billion. Sacramento has been...
The British comic, in his guise as gay Austrian reporter Brüno, fooled security at a fashion show and almost got arrested in the course of making his new film. Ben Child wonders when people will get wise to him
A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state's prison health care system. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson...
