Consumer Financial Protection Bureau considering repeal of payday lending rule
What could go wrong here???-OEN NEW YORK --- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has decided to reconsider a key set of rules enacted last year that would have protected consumers…
Thought Police for the 21st Century
DETROIT---The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the…
Voucher Schools Are Teaching Kids What Can Only Be Described as Right-Wing Propaganda
The number of private schools that get taxpayer funds via school vouchers or tax credit scholarships is rising rapidly, but few states keep tabs on what these schools are actually…
What Spielberg’s The Post — and Our Textbooks — Leave Out
As I came out of the theater this week after watching Steven Spielberg's The Post, I overheard a 60-something man --- like me --- say to his companions: "Young…
Republican Rigging Part 24: Six Million U.S. Citizens Are Prohibited from Registering to Vote
Written by Robert Warden Thank you to my friend Bruce Kunkel, as well as Robert Reich, for pointing out this issue recently. You are probably aware of the fact that…