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The Terror Con

The FBI May Have Finally Found Jimmy Hoffa

Say Hello to the 'Super Rich'

This Will Not End Well

The Making of a Global Security State

REPORTS

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

The Making of a Global Security State
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Climate Change Puts Lake Life at Risk
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The Terror Con
By Robert Scheer

Ear to the ground

Bill Ayers: Try Obama, Bush for War Crimes

Experts Don’t Buy Claim Syria Used Chemical Weapons

Brazil Erupts in Protest Over Services and Soccer Costs (Video)

New Iranian President Wants to Heal ‘Old Wound’ With U.S.

The FBI May Have Finally Found Jimmy Hoffa

Controversial Voting Law Struck Down, Snowden ‘Honored’ by Cheney, and More

A/V Booth

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Did Progress Leave Christians Behind?

Watch: Rick Perry Blunders Jab at Obama’s Benghazi Reaction

Arts & Culture

Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

Digs

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

By Peter Richardson

Tag: Schapiro

AP photo / Gerald Herbert

Tough Road Ahead for New Economic Appointees

On Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama introduced three top financial appointees who will help him with the unenviable task of revamping the government’s economic regulatory system and “crack[ing] down on this culture of greed and scheming that has led us to this day of reckoning,” as Obama put it.