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…standard is required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the BIS-based global regulator agreed to by the G20 leaders in 2009. The Basel III Accords set by the…

It’s long, long, LONG past time for Congress to restructure the Judicial Misconduct Complaint mechanism so that it’s no longer a comically flagrant sham designed and controlled completely by members of the federal judiciary. Really. It’s long, long, long, long past time.

Committee, but which was a bipartisan effort—the Supreme Court justices cry: “Oh, my! The loss of judicial independence! Oh, no!”. Surprise! Works every time! The Sensenbrenner proposal would have done…

There are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 primary contest with Obama and Sanders’s primary contest now with her. Clinton doesn’t get that. But she needs to figure it out because the differences matter.

…ActBlue’s solicitations for contributions to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. We’ll click the buttons and fill in the blanks, like we have done for…