The latest overreach from the theocratic right concerns their bid to get advertisers to dump their support of a television show on TLC called All-American Muslim. The eight-episode series follows the lives of families in Dearborn, Michigan, home to the highest concentration of Muslim-Americans in the US. And it’s a pretty mundane rendering of the [...]

The new employment numbers for May come out on Friday, but a preview of private employment statistics from the firm ADP is not encouraging. They show that private employment only increased by 39,000 in May, off from an expected 178,000. Since public-sector jobs have consistently shrunk throughout this period of budget-cutting, if this ADP data [...]

Karen Tumulty and Michael Scherer wrote a very depressing story about how the pharmaceutical industry got its way in the health care debate. While the public has focused on the insurance industry’s fight against reform, the drugmakers have actually spent more (about $600,000 a day), and gotten more for their money. Their deal with the [...]