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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.

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

(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.

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.

Michael was a human being. This is a simple truth, Michael’s humanity. Yet it is also implicitly a fragile insight, one that the police indifference to the dignity of his corpse and to the sentiments of his gathering neighbors suggests that many officers failed to grasp.

The response to Michael Brown's death is coalescing around a call for an end to the military-police complex, and President Obama has ordered a review of police militarization. But why does this complex exist in the first place? 

For a moment, Monday’s funeral for Michael Brown, the young black man shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, pulled our attention away from the protests and militarized police response and back to the body on the street. The police left Michael there in the middle of the road, under the midday sky, for over four hours, blood seeping from his head in a drying rivulet on the asphalt. “To have that boy lying there, like nobody cared about him.

Police brutality and racialized violence have been at the forefront of many conversations in the aftermath of the death of Michael Brown.