Are the Tables Tilted Against Women on Wall Street?
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:42 am PDT
 The Atlantic Wire - Why are there so few women in finance and other fields, and how should this best be addressed? The Goldman Sachs class-action gender discrimination lawsuit, filed by three former female employees, is raising these questions amid a larger debate. For many, the firm represents the ultimate in a Wall Street boys club mentality--a place where go-getter networking ability, stereotypically male aggression, and an appreciation of scotch, sports, and sheer stockings might pay off. At the same time, Goldman has been at the forefront of the effort to diversify Wall Street, particularly with regard to gender. Full Story | Top |
How Health Care Will Determine the Midterms
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:01 am PDT
 The Atlantic Wire - Six months to the day after President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats passed health care reform, the policy is returning to the political main stage. Obama and Democrats are seeking to campaign on the sweeping and popular legislation, Republicans are running against it as too costly and are attempting to channel Tea Party challenges to the law's legality. Republicans have long promised to repeal health care reform, several key provisions of which go into effect today. Here's the political battle and what it means the midterms as well as health care. Full Story | Top |
How Likely Is California to Legalize Pot?
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:40 am PDT
 The Atlantic Wire - Marijuana is up for legalization in California this November. Will the measure--Proposition 19--pass? New numbers from Public Policy Polling are favorable: 47% to 38%. But there are a couple of quirks and complicating factors in this vote. Full Story | Top |
Happy Hour Vid: Seinfeld Calls Larry King an 'Annoying Relative'
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:20 pm PDT
The Atlantic Wire - For 25 years on air at CNN, Larry King has never had a reputation for giving "tough" interviews. He butters his guests up, throws them softballs and calls it a night. Almost all of his guests know this but very few acknowledge it--especially to his face. Except of course comedian Jerry Seinfeld. In what will likely be his last appearance on Larry King Live, Seinfeld gave King a pretty wonderful roasting for his somewhat lazy interviewing technique. The clip comes from last night's show: Full Story | Top |
R.I.P. Political Establishment
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - The big story of American politics stretches from the netroots to Barack Obama's victory to the tea party movement. The political establishment's reign has finally ended. Full Story | Top |
The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:50 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, workers' right to form unions, a progressive income tax, a federal minimum wage, old-age insurance, the eight-hour workday and government-subsidized healthcare would be considered an impractical utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Full Story | Top |
A NEW BREED OF FIRST LADY
Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:56 pm PDT
David Shribman - PITTSBURGH -- There were many affecting scenes at this month's ceremony in the Pennsylvania meadow where the 40 men and women who became the heroes of Flight 93 before they became the victims of Flight 93 were commemorated. Full Story | Top |
Does 'Wall Street 2' Have Anything Important to Say About Greed?
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:37 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - Get ready to be tired of the "Greed is good" refrain. Gordon Gekko returning to screens with his ludicrously ambitious (but as we now know, all-too-real) schemes. After nearly a year of delays, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps has finally made its way to theaters, starring Michael Douglas along with newcomer Carey Mulligan (and, yeah, maybe Shia LaBeouf too). Beyond the box office prospects, what is director Oliver Stone--whose last two projects have been explicit message films--trying to say in this sequel? Will there be more than just a superficial take on the 2008 financial crisis, or will his blockbuster sensibilities (nudged, no doubt, by 20th Century Fox) take over? Full Story | Top |
U.S. Still Tops in Increasingly Obese Developed World
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:13 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - The U.S. now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world, 34 percent, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The report compares adult obesity rates across 33 of the world's wealthiest countries. The U.S. is ranked second behind Mexico, with 68 and 70 percent, in the proportion of adults who are overweight. The rapidly increasing U.S. obesity rates have long been cause for concern, especially as health care costs skyrocket. Here's what people have to say about the report. Scientific American also presents A Graphical View of U.S. Obesity. Full Story | Top |
A bold -- and painless -- way to unleash energy innovation and create jobs
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:01 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - The energy crisis from 1973 to 1981 was not a happy period for Americans, but it was also a time when entrepreneurs and engineers formed a huge number of new businesses aimed at producing low-cost solar cells, high-efficiency engines for automobiles, better insulation for our houses, and so on. Full Story | Top |
U.S. Now Most Obese Nation in Developed World
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:58 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - The U.S. now has the highest adult obesity rate in the developed world, 34 percent, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The report compares adult obesity rates across 33 of the world's wealthiest countries. The U.S. is ranked second behind Mexico, with 68 and 70 percent, in the proportion of adults who are overweight. The rapidly increasing U.S. obesity rates have long been cause for concern, especially as health care costs skyrocket. Here's what people have to say about the report. Scientific American also presents A Graphical View of U.S. Obesity. Full Story | Top |
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