Ruth Calvo

A fight to keep the present, taxpayer supported, system deprived of regulations that provide transparency to all potential investors, and regulators, is now going on almost unnoticed. The beneficiaries of ending regulations on the financial system will themselves be worse off if they succeed.

Join me in ending pollution of paid space by protest against Fox in places you pay for.

Rates of death in childbirth are out of line with picture of health care exccellence.

Counsel moving on to spend more time with family? The president makes a promising move toward justice in ending crimes of Gitmo.

Visits on the Hill show Republicans aren't listening - can't we do something about that?

As the U.S. returns to functional relationships with the rest of the world, I see a great value to be gained from participation in thinking, sound consideration of alternatives to the way things got so badly damaged. A revocation of the policies of recidivism and refusal to learn from their mistakes could take serious bolstering from shared experience and expertise among all nations that includes this one as it rapidly regains ground.

What is required to sell the right wing product is dissociation from pride, dedication to overlook criteria about actual value, and the personal need to make it in a bewilderingly complex world where you are responsible for untold distress but have to pretend that repeating your mistakes will solve the immense damage you have done.

Pro-business policies have been fought and defeated by the Chamber of Commerce on the grounds that they know business needs. That has been proved horribly wrong. Progressives have policies that actually do benefit our business community.

Rational economics rears its head as the ethical actions of some top earners tips the scale.

H1N1 is providing yet another playground for the winger snake oil salesmen. Fear of the government is more than just a peculiarity of the ignorant, it's a cash cow for health industry outliers who prey on those fears.