A criminal enterprise | Nine stories the press is underreporting -- fraud, fraud and more fraud
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From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers -- a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it from a lot of the media coverage, though. Regulatory hero and criminologist William K. Black helps connect the dots.

Let the punishment suit the crime? | Holding executives accountable for corporate wrongdoing ASK THIS If people, not guns, are responsible for killing people, then aren’t executives, not corporations, responsible when their products kill people? Such as GlaxoSmithKline executives who concealed for years that the drug Avandia increased heart risks, causing thousands of strokes, heart attacks and deaths? And isn't this an issue reporters should deal with?

How many volunteers? | A potent question to ask about your local prisons and jails
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Whether volunteers are welcomed or rebuffed can tell you a lot about whether inmates at your local correctional facility are being treated like human beings or live in fear, says a former inmate turned prison activist.

A letter to the FCC | So Verizon and AT&T are 'very small businesses?'
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Bruce Kushnick says the use of obsolete data costs taxpayers billions, and he spells out how. But regulators don't even respond to his complaints -- not even to tell him he is wrong. Why is that?

How long will allies stay the course? | Afghanistan and the U.S. from afar: Doubts on the rise
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On this 9/11 anniversary, writer Bill Claiborne surveys Australia’s and other small countries’ changing views of the Afghanistan war. One difference: the Vietnam-era word 'quagmire' is being heard more and more.

Relevant reporting wanted | It’s time to do more than just say the economy is the No. 1 issue
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If voters are to go into the midterm elections with any understanding at all, the press needs to get away from he-said, she-said reporting and look into the positions that candidates and the two parties are taking. Martin Lobel offers some vital questions.

Looking for a solution | How severe is the public employee pension problem across the U.S.? (Hint: Is a $3 trillion debt severe?) ASK THIS Columnist and author Steven Greenhut looks at the ongoing pension issue, including abuses of it, and deals with some of the key questions.

Prescription drugs included | For a model health care system, how about Australia's?
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'Medicare for all' isn’t just an expression in Australia, it’s a reality, and there aren’t any death panels or government intervention in the choice of doctors or treatment. Bill Claiborne, a longtime Washington Post reporter now living in Australia, describes the system.

Cui bono? | Six essential questions about the deficit, Wall Street and Washington
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Fiscal expert Stan Collender points out that the bond market is not demanding deficit reduction -- in fact, quite the opposite. So where is the Washington establishment's obsession with the deficit coming from? Whose interests does it serve?

A how-not-to guide | News flash! Journalists prepared to once again utterly misread annual Social Security Trustees report
ASK THIS| August 216, 2010
Thursday's report will once again describe an essential program in admirable fiscal health. But every year, journalists twist the facts to fit a narrative favored by the political elite: that the program is in crisis. Rather than manufacturing a false drama that shakes people's confidence about their future benefits, two Social Security experts write, reporters should stick to the facts.

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