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Presidents serve the institutional interests of the corporations behind them. A President McCain may have at least triggered a true progressive fight.

A coalition of 295 legal scholars from universities around the world have signed a letter protesting the torture of Bradley Manning, and published this week in the New York Review of Books. Composed and drafted by Bruce Ackerman, of Yale Law School, and Yochai Benkler, of Harvard, the letter details his treatment, and points out that it is a violation of both the Eighth and Fifth Amendments. "If continued," the letter states, "it may well amount to a violation of the criminal statute against torture, defined as, among other things, 'the administration or application…of… procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality.'"

Once again, many liberals have bought into American power as a force for good. But it's just another ugly, expensive war we now own

The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping amounts of deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) and human rights abuses.

Wall Street has been caught laundering massive amounts of drug money. So why isn't anybody being punished?

The economy is crumbling and consumers are in trouble. So banks are hitting them with $38 billion a year in deceptive fees.

"American Citizen detained and threatened with deportation for being brown"