Tim Fernholz

The man on the left above, Christopher Lockwood, is a suspect in the assassination of a top Hamas leader in Dubai last January. On the right is man named Yehuda Lustig, who supposedly died in the Yom Kippur War. Or are they the same person? That’s the question Chip Cummins and Alistair MacDonald try to […]

September’s unemployment data is out today, and it’s no good. The private sector gained 64,000 jobs, about the same as August, but that growth was off-set by a drop of 159,000 government jobs, mainly census workers and laid-offs in local government. Unemployment remained steady at 9.6 percent, but worryingly, the best measure, graphed above, of […]

Matt Miller has a provocative column today on an old tension within the left: What’s more important, supporting workers and economic justice here at home, or around the world? To put it more starkly, look at China, where an export-driven economic strategy has lifted some 300 million people out of poverty — nearly the entire […]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee has put out a new ad going after West Virginia’s Democratic governor, Joe Manchin, who is seeking the Senate seat vacated after Robert Byrd passed away. A couple of good ol’ boys talk about him: “Joe’s not bad as governor, but when he’s with Obama … ” one says. “He […]

There’s been a fair amount of discussion on whether we should measure the success of financial reform by bank profits. While that may be one useful metric, it shouldn’t be the only — or even the pre-eminent way — we evaluate the Dodd-Frank bill, given that the primary goal of of the bill wasn’t to […]

Kevin Drum catches Stephen Spruiell misunderstanding the point of health-care reform. The 3M company has decided that it will phase out its retirement health-care plan because its retirees can get cheaper, better care on the private market through exchanges. The ACA doesn’t even affect 3M’s existing plans — it’s just made the competition more effective. […]