Poverty is on the retreat. Despite the global economic downturn, the World Bank and UN reported this year that the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped in every region of the world for the first time since record keeping began. Though progress on the UN’s Millennium Devel... Read more...
The second presidential town hall debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama in the run up to the general election in November. Read more...
Two daunting questions hang over "Community." The first is when, if ever, is it going to come back? Its fourth-season premiere was scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Friday until NBC announced that it and second-year sitcom "Whitney" would be postponed so the network can concentrate its October promotional e... Read more...
We’ve written plenty about how the US government has been quite aggressive in spying on Americans. It has been helped along by a court system that doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the 4th Amendment and by the growing ability of private companies to have our data and to then share it w... Read more...
While the 0.4% perfectly unmanipulated and totally coincidental swing in the unemployment rate in an Obama favorable direction one month before the election came at a prime time moment for the market, one hour ahead of the open, setting the market mood for the rest of the day (which despite all be... Read more...