Kara Brandeisky Posts

Obama's new initiative to commute the sentences of long term non-violent prisoners, mostly drug offenders, has some glaring holes. It doesn't address George W. Bush's pardon attorney's glaring ethical lapses, nor does it attack racial disparities in any meaningful way.

For the first time, the U.S. Labor Department has gotten involved in a high-profile lawsuit brought by unpaid interns. On Friday, the federal agency filed an amicus brief in support of eight former interns suing Hearst Corporation for back wages.

After troves of documents regarding the National Security Agency's indiscriminate domestic data collection came to light, public outcry was such that something had to be done. President Obama has made some positive steps, and more legislation is coming, but there are some glaring loopholes, as well as some big questions that still need to be answered.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to pay more than $27.6 million to settle state and federal allegations that it induced Chicago psychiatrist Michael Reinstein to overprescribe clozapine, a powerful antipsychotic drug.

President Obama has sought to reassure the country that warrantless surveillance by the NSA has been measured and discretely implemented. Compare his statements to court testimony, though, and a broader picture of malfeasance, or at least more indiscriminate wiretapping, begins to take shape.