Just like last year and the year before, my home state of Kentucky failed to pass a cap on the interest payday lenders can charge their prey. A bill was proposed to put a 36% cap on the amount of interest that payday lenders could charge. It’s identical to the cap that the federal government [...]

Last night Tony Blair was in conversation with Katie Couric at the 92nd St Y. I happened to be in town for a board meeting so headed over to a sold-out house to see if I could get in. Luck was with me as I got a ticket about 13 rows from his chair on [...]

The Pentagon’s public relations machine is working overtime these days trying to sell a theme of “progress” in Afghanistan to push back against calls to end the war. The message machine behind this push is gargantuan, costing $547 million and employing more than 27,000 people. But, as our latest Rethink Afghanistan video shows, all that [...]