Opinion

Chicago is in Cook County, and starting tomorrow, the Cook County Sheriff will not evict people because of foreclosure.

Israel and Egypt have closed all borders with the Gaza strip because Hamas controls Gaza. Smugglers have dug hundreds of tunnels under the border to bring in food, fuel, supplies, and weapons. Hamas, as the only government in the Gaza strip, has started to regulate the tunnels. Forty-five workers have died in the tunnels this … Read more

In each country, a central bank sets the interest rate that banks use to lend each other money. The US central bank, the Fed, issued an emergency rate cut today, and so did most other central banks around the world.

Documents prove that the Bush administration detained US citizens for years, in solitary confinement, without access to sunlight, without books, and without charges. Are you a US citizen?

Kashmir militants have fought against Indian rule for twenty years, with more than 43,000 dead. Pakistan has implicitly supported the Muslim fighters, but Pakistan’s president said that they are terrorists.

A Fox News anchor said, “facts…unlike science…the facts are not irrefutable.”

Many people are trying to blame the mortgage meltdown on “minority” borrowers and the Community Reinvestment Act. The truth is that the major players–investment banks and mortgage brokers–were not regulated by the CRA.

The Bush administration has been holding Chinese Uighurs at Gitmo even though they were cleared of all charges in 2004. A federal judge ordered them released.

The Federal Reserve Bank will provide short-term loans to companies in the form of “commercial paper.”

Pakistan will deport all 50,000 Afghani refugees from the Bajur tribal region in an effort to deport Afghani militants.