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 |
Pastor's Sex Scandal Rocks Black Evangelical Church
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:12 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - Bishop Eddie Long, leader of a 25,000-member megachurch in Atlanta, faces accusation of sexual coercion from four men, former parishioners. Long denied the allegations from the pulpit this morning, saying he felt "like David against Goliath...but I've got five rocks and I haven't thrown one yet." The scandal has reverberated in the black church community in which Long stands as a prominent figure. A fierce critic of homosexuality, Long's case has prompted reflections on the conflicted relationship between black church culture, which tends toward theological conservatism, and gays. 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 |
Morning Vid: O'Reilly Considers Whether Colbert Should Pay Him
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:58 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - If you can't beat the satire, join it. That seems to have been the mantra guiding Glenn Beck Friday night. In an interview with Bill O'Reilly, Beck said he was "totally cool" with the dueling Restoring Sanity rallies organized by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in imitation and mockery of Beck's Restoring Honor event a few weeks back. Full Story | Top |
How China-Japan Spat Reshaped Asia
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:10 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - Japanese officials have announced they will release the Chinese fishing boat captain whose two weeks of detention had sparked an increasingly volatile diplomatic fight between the two nations. When China retaliated by blocking the export of rare-earth minerals to Japan, it raised concerns in the U.S. about how far China was willing to take its fight against America's closest ally in East Asia. Will Japan's release of the captain resolve tensions or is it too late? The row over the detained fisherman is widely seen as an expression of deep and complicated Sino-Japanese hostility, so there's no easy solution. Here's what people have to say. 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 |
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 |
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