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The Voter Empowerment Act of 2012

The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin (above, Credit/David A.Grogan) and Jim LaCampJP Morgan Chase’s “terrible, egregious mistake” has touched off a firestorm of utter nonsense, ignited by the Jamie Dimon’s subtle spinning and fanned by the misinformation parroted by the media.

Boston, MA – Citing clear evidence that the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) have violated their federally-mandated responsibilities to offer tens of thousands of public assistance clients opportunities to register to vote, a

The JP Morgan Chase fiasco in which it lost $2 billion (so far) on a “hedge” of the bank’s global exposures to corporate risks bristles with implications for the push to implement the reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act -- and the effort to strangle reform in its crib.

Credit: Helen Slottje for ShaleshockNPR is currently running a series on the fracking boom that highlights the vast landscape of unanswered questions.

The youngsters filed into the large conference room at the Community Service Society in Manhattan. Each picked up a slice of pizza and a can of soda from a small table that had been set up along one wall, then took a seat at the large table in the center of the room. They were from a public school

It’s hard to imagine that an industry that has spent over $28 million on federal and state campaign contributions this election cycle alone would be victimized by government regulation, but that is the cry coming from the oil and gas industry. Well, more accurately, that is the cry coming from

The debate over the NYPD's controversial stop and frisk policy is an important reminder about the unjust reality young male African American men face. Stop and frisk has been thrust back into the media with new findings by the NYCLU that in 2003, the NYPD stopped 266 people for every gun recovered

Hartford, CT. – A coalition of good government groups including Common Cause, Demos, People For the American Way, Public Citizen, Credo Action and others are calling on Connecticut Governor Dannell Malloy to sign H.B. 5556, “Changes to Campaign Finance Laws and other Election Laws,” which just

Mother’s Day won’t arrive until Sunday, but the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is already looking beyond it.