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To much fanfare, Fannie and Freddie Mac recently announced that they would put a moratorium on foreclosures through the holiday season. But for some 765,000 homeowners already in foreclosure, like Julio Angulo of suburban Virginia, even temporary relief isn’t necessarily coming.
TWI economics reporter Mary Kane attended Angulo’s eviction on Monday morning with video producer Garland [...]

I’m very excited to announce a new member of our team, Ana Marie Cox! Ana joins us for the home stretch of the presidential campaign. She has hit the trail and will be sending us dispatches on Sen. John McCain’s last push.
Ana is the founding editor of Wonkette and author of the novel “Dog Days.”
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Economics reporter Mary Kane reports today on how the $700 billion bailout plan won’t actually help out homeowners facing foreclosure. And, thanks to our partners at the American News Project, there’s a great video story too.

Anyone sitting in a newsroom right now is about to slip into a jealous rage. Why? The Center for Independent Media is growing! And — big news here — today I get to welcome our newest reporter, Jonathan E. Kaplan. Kaplan will be working the Congress beat for our network of sites in battleground states [...]

TWI’s national security reporter Spencer Ackerman filed some video from his trip through Kabul, Afghanistan, on his way to Bagram Airfield, a major U.S. transit hub. Here’s what he saw.

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman has been filing gripping dispatches all week from Afghanistan, where he is reporting on the state of the war. Be sure to check out all of his work. Today I posted some video he filed from Eastern Afghanistan, a violent region of the country twelve miles from the porous Pakistan [...]

TWI’s finance reporter Mary Kane reports today on the simmering anger amongst housing advocates who think the government ought to step in and take the lead on the mortgage crisis.

TWI politics reporter Sridhar Pappu spent yesterday morning with Lynn Forester de Rothschild to get the long-time Democratic donor and ardent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter’s take on the convention and her party’s chances in the Fall. Miffed by Obama’s decision to forego Clinton as a running-mate, here’s what she had to say:
“It feels like [...]

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman has a sobering piece up today on how U.S. intelligence collection in Iraq has lead to the unnecessary detention of an untold number of Iraqis, according to an Army interrogator once stationed at Abu Ghraib.

In honor of the Democratic convention (and then next week’s Republican convention) economics expert Charles Morris has written two pieces on what a Democratic or Republican president would mean for the U.S. economy. Here are his thoughts on an Obama White House.