Like many members of Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been a fierce critic of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, blaming the government-backed loan programs for excesses that helped create the financial meltdown in 2008 ( Read more... )

was a .pdf, so now that I've had a chance to read this article from back in 2000, before things worsened, I've decided to copy it all in. Entirely too many examples of people dying for lack of health insurance.

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such as the weather service. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's polar weather satellite is in trouble. NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco recently spoke with me and some other Post editors, explaining that funding to replace the orbiting instrument was lost in the confusion of the last-minute 2011 budget negotiations between ( Read more... )

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The President needs to remind us that as members of the same society we have obligations to one another - that the wealthiest among us must pay their fair share of taxes, that any of us who loses our jobs or homes or gets terribly sick can ( Read more... )

NYTimes Food Writer Mark Bittman on Why he's fasting.

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When Congress can seriously debate cutting food aid to pregnant women and children while giving tax breaks to billionaires-and the only question the media asks is whether the cuts are big enough-we have a crisis ( Read more... )