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A tool that will clarify and measure the way policy reinforces racial disparities.

In a record-breaking demonstration of support, over one million commenters have submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling on the agency to take immediate steps to require publicly traded corporations to disclose their use of corporate resources for political purposes to their shareholders. 

“You know who talks about race? Racists!” That was a Fox commentator, unintentionally providing a pithy summary of the conservative reaction to the national conversation surrounding the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting. To note that the officer is white and the victim black — well, that’s just needlessly injecting race into an already volatile situation, right-wing pundits repeatedly charged.

Jon Stewart, in a biting Daily Show segment last week, skewered this rhetoric, asking incredulously of Fox, “did you just ‘he-who-smelt-it-dealt-it’ racism?”

This fall, I’ll be teaching some of the most financially distressed students in America.

This year, Labor Day came on the heels of the annual Jackson Hole conclave of central bankers.

The City of Detroit’s groundbreaking bankruptcy proceeding enters what may be its final phase this week. The court will conduct hearings over the next month or so to decide whether to approve the plan for exiting bankruptcy presented by the emergency appointed by the Michigan Governor under the state's draconian municipal take over law. And, as of September 27th, the city's elected officials are entitled under the law to reclaim at least some semblance of governance from the emergency manager.

(New York, New York) – Almost five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC granted new rights to business corporations to spend unlimited corporate resources to influence elections, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yet to act to require disclosure of political spending.

More than $11 million in McCutcheon Money has already flowed into this year's mid-term congressional elections.

When you find a leak, do you jump up and point at it? Yell about it? What if the leak is part of a massive flood? Do you call up your friends and make plans to build a dam? What if the leak comes at you when you’ve been trapped in a basement with floodwater rising up to your neck? 

Early Wednesday morning, many media outlets were buzzing with news of a leak.