If you knew where to look, you could find a healthy debate about today’s announcement of the government-sponsored killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen. Over at Wired there’s a debate about the Constitutionality of the drone strike, between law professors Charlie Dunlap and Mary Ellen O’Connell, who says that “The United States is not [...]

Here we have a country, just through a revolution, a transition in power, holding the sinners of the past accountable for their crimes, no matter how powerful or influential. They are not concerned with healing or looking forward instead of backward. They seek justice. I’m not talking about the United States, obviously. I’m talking about [...]

The Egyptian resolution has brought Hosni Mubarak to his knees. Literally, according to Al Arabiya. Former president Hosni Mubarak is to apologize to the nation and plead for amnesty, three months after he was overthrown by a popular uprising, the country’s military leader called on his people to help improve internal security and work for [...]

The Justice Department has been enforcing the laws on abortion access with more frequency in recent years than its predecessors. The shift from an anti-choice to a pro-choice executive branch should make this obvious, but nonetheless it’s welcome news. Since Obama’s inauguration, federal lawsuits have been filed against a woman who blocked a car from [...]

Earlier today, Al Franken said he inquired to Ally Financial about their robo-signing difficulties and got a form letter for his trouble. “It’s nice to see,” Franken quipped, “that Ally doesn’t treat homeowners any worse than they treat a Senator.” Franken could just read the paper today and find out that Ally went and fixed [...]

Marcy’s right; you cannot write the story of the economy without writing about housing and foreclosures, and the fact that Peter Baker thinks he can is an indictment of economic literacy in the media. It’s just obvious that continued slack in the housing market threatens any type of recovery, but precious few people in positions [...]

A group of homeowners and community activists from 12 states will meet tomorrow with the lead Attorney General in the foreclosure fraud case tomorrow, making a strong set of asks to Iowa’s Tom Miller and the other AGs on how to conduct the case. These are homeowners who are in danger of losing their homes [...]

Business Week has a long piece about the foreclosure mess, and it approaches the subject from exactly the right angle. At the root, this is about who will have to eat Big Shitpile, the phase lovingly coined by Atrios to explain the mass of toxic mortgages written at the height of the housing bubble. Business [...]

Lost in the frenzy surrounding a potential foreclosure moratorium is the fact that foreclosures just hummed along at a record clip in September, before the “troubles” began. Foreclosure filings were reported on 347,420 U.S. properties in September, an increase of nearly 3 percent from the previous month and an increase of 1 percent from September [...]

When talk of a joint investigation by state Attorneys General began, the thinking was that 40 states would be involved in the probe. Now, we’ve learned that every state but Alabama will be involved in the investigation, and even they’re sending a financial regulatory to participate in it, along with regulators from 38 other states. [...]