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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Story Dan Loeb, an activist investor who came to the fore with his shake-up of Yahoo, sent an e-mail to friends in late 2010 with the subject heading battered wives. In the tongue-in-cheek text, he accused the President of treating his supporters on...
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Reuters
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama points to the crowd as he arrives for a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio October 25, 2012. President Barack Obama said on Friday a bipartisan panel's deficit reduction recommendation went too far on spending cuts, especially...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney seized upon new numbers showing modest economic growth to argue Friday that President Obama 's policies have been a failure. Today we received, by the way, the latest round of discouraging economic news...After the stimulus was passed,...
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
Why The Economy Won't Help Obama Or Romney October 26, 2012 4:02 PM The U.S. economy remains in a gray area, so it's no wonder that the presidential race is essentially tied. Gross domestic product grew at a 2 percent annual rate between June and...
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Chicago Tribune
| 7 months ago
Minutes before 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 2008, a 158-year-old investment bank obscure to most Americans -- Lehman Brothers -- became the biggest company ever to file for bankruptcy. In succeeding days, then weeks, then months, the panic-inducing phrase...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Scrap the electoral college For all the follies of first-past-the-post, by imagining a general election as 650 entirely separate constituency ballots you at least see how it might once have made sense Editorial Heaven knows the British are poorly...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney does not come close to measuring up to him as an honest, forthright and compassionate leader...Bush's legacy, which got us into two wars and the worst economic crisis in 80 years. The president has repaired some of the damage; 5 million...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama intends to use the fiscal cliff to his advantage. Much of what has been discussed -- aside from Romney's base-pleasing vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill -- has come in the form of...
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Associated Press
| 7 months ago
It's the defining ritual of American democracy: the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Though the outcome of the White House race is still days away, planning for the transfer is well under way. As Republican Mitt Romney leapfrogs from swing...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
The poll to elect the joint council of the Russian opposition had to be prolonged for one day due to hacker attacks on the polling website, say the organizers of the unprecedented political event...Image from gumelection.com) While many look to...