Does it seem right to you that a state's ability to stay afloat should be the stuff of secretive betting pools? No? Well that's just what's going on.

This Monday, suicide bombings rocked two stations in the Moscow Metro, killing 39 people. This is only the latest in a series of attacks on Russian civilians, stemming from the conflict over the Russian occupation of Chechnya.

This week in Washington, D.C., the Haiti Donors Conference will discuss rebuilding and continued aid to the earthquake-ravaged nation. Health advocate Marie St. Cyr just returned from Haiti, where she has family, andcame into our studio before the conference to discuss what Haiti really needs from those donors.

Kate Clinton signs up in solidarity with Catholic nuns: not only did they take on Bart Stupak and anti-health-care Republicans, they also aren't afraid of the Pope.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann has publicly stated that she will not fill out her census form completely, expressing concerns about the census being part of a larger effort at voter fraud led by, you guessed it, ACORN. Of course, there are other communities who have long had reasons to distrust government officials asking for their information.

In addition to joining our census conversation today, Baratunde Thurston gave us this video interview with Robin Stanback Stevens, a friend of his, who discusses five concrete benefits she's seen since the inauguration of Barack Obama.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann has publicly stated that she will not fill out her census form completely, expressing concerns about the census being part of a larger effort at voter fraud led by, you guessed it, ACORN. Of course, there are other communities who have long had reasons to distrust government officials asking for their information.

So maybe they're not so against stimulus after all. In fact, the Republican National Committee has been giving a little stimulus of their own to an overlooked demographic group: strippers.

Max Rameau is a longtime activist for land rights and housing, and with mortgages, foreclosures, gentrification and construction playing such a huge role in New York's response to the economic crisis, who better to take us on a walk around the Lower East Side?

Richard Kim joins us in studio to explain where the tea party movement's latest bogeyman came from, and how it plays into larger threads within the rise of the organized, angry right under the Obama administration.