As Democrats and Republicans struggle to agree on which bills to pass in Congress’ crowded lame-duck session, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers may find themselves struggling just to make ends meet. That’s because Congress has not passed an extension for long-term unemployment benefits, the payments the federal government sends to laid-off workers who have [...]
The New York attorney general-elect, Eric T. Schneiderman, will have a big role in policing Wall Street, and on Tuesday he tapped several prominent Wall Street lawyers and senior aides of predecessors to help him find staff lawyers to do the job. At a news conference at New York University’s School of Law, Mr. Schneiderman [...]
Keith Olbermann will return to his MSNBC program “Countdown” on Tuesday and his suspension will be lifted, NBC announced Sunday night. Olbermann, an avowed liberal, was suspended on Friday for an indefinite period of time without pay after reports surfaced that he had made political contributions of $2,400 each to three candidates in the 2010 [...]
I was talking to a former Clinton White House aide shortly after Tuesday night’s debacle-for-Democrats, and he told me had a brilliant idea for the Dems: elect Michele Bachmann speaker of the House. He explained it was possible. If the 190 or so House Democrats in the incoming Congress would support her, then Bachmann, the [...]
“Tribute to Her,” uploaded to the Internet on Nov. 7, 2008, is a slideshow of Election Day photographs. YouTube member SailorBrownie described her post as a “dedication to all those Black Americans who went out on Tuesday and voted. We made history.” While it’s not altogether clear who is the “Her” in the title of [...]
Lately, it seems like the president might be taking a page from the Todd “Ladies Love Cool” James (a.k.a. LL Cool J) playbook: He’s been courting women voters with a zeal unmatched by any administration in recent memory. On some level, the president’s adulation by and appreciation for the fairer sex comes as little surprise. [...]
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