NewsJustice, World Bauer, Fattal to Face Trial in Iran Cindy Hickey, the mother of Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, told the AP today that Bauer and Josh Fattal, his hiking companion, will stand trial in Tehran on November 6… Esther KaplanOctober 19, 2010
InvestigationWorld Aftermath Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World Nir RosenNation BooksOctober 15, 2010
InvestigationBusiness The BofA Mortgage Settlement Fiasco The “biggest loan modification in American history,” announced in October 2008, has done more to protect Bank of America than to compensate victims of predatory lending. Alex UlamThe NationOctober 15, 2010
InvestigationJustice The Most Wanted Surrogates in the World Cash-strapped and alone on the home front, military wives are being targeted as potential surrogate mothers because of their economic vulnerability — and excellent health benefits Habiba Nosheen & Hilke SchellmannGlamourOctober 12, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Politics, World Deportation Horror: From Texas to Bangladesh Texan Shahed Hossain, a US green card holder, was deported to Bangladesh just for telling a border guard that he was a citizen. He’s but one casualty of President Obama’s policy of mass deportations. Brian Palmer & Seth Freed WesslerColorlines.comOctober 10, 2010
AnalysisImmigration Diary of a Dobbs Story Gone Viral Our Twitter feed has gone crazy. Romenesko, Olbermann, and David Carr are all tweeting it. The Huffingon Post has it front-paged; Politico calls it a “PR bomb” for Dobbs; Salon gleefully announces that Isabel Macdonald “nails [Dobbs] to the wall”… Esther KaplanOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Labor Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite While he railed against “illegal aliens” and their “illegal employers,” undocumented immigrants tended to Lou Dobbs’ estates and prize horses. Isabel MacdonaldThe NationOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationImmigration, Labor Indocumentados trabajaron para Dobbs Lou Dobbs regularmente arremetía contra los “empleadores de ilegales.” Sin embargo, el propio Dobbs utilizó mano de obra de indocumentados para que trabajaran en sus propiedades multimillonarias y que atendieran los caballos que le tiene a su hija Hillary. Isabel MacdonaldEl DiarioOctober 7, 2010
InvestigationBusiness Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis Long-term unemployment has risen to historic levels, producing a devastating effect on the hearts and minds of jobless Americans — and particularly on hard-hit older workers. Andy KrollTomDispatchOctober 5, 2010
NewsWorld Cost of Dissent for Iranian Journalists Though we are all too familiar with the repression reporters increasingly face in Iran, we were extremely troubled this week to hear that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian blogger, has been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison for his… Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 30, 2010