President Obama got his second chance to nominate a Supreme Court justice not even a year after the first one with the retirement of John Paul Stevens, the Court's oldest member and its liberal backbone. He has nominated Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General and the former Dean of Harvard Law School, but many progressives are unhappy with the choice, wishing that Obama had instead chosen a staunch liberal who would not run the risk of moving the Court to the right.

Across the U.S., in virtually all states and localities, government is on the verge of, or has already, stopped providing essential services. The public coffers are empty. In Arizona, the state sold off its Capitol building. In New York City, one thousand transit workers were given pink slips last week.

Immigration reform is on everyone's mind after the recent passage of SB 1070 in Arizona recently, but one of the bills being considered in Congress has its own downside. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act--the DREAM Act--is a bipartisan bill offering a road to citizenship for undocumented minors who attend college or join the military. But our guests today found out that more and more, what seems like an opportunity winds up pushing youth into military service--and not guaranteeing their reward on the other end.

The big economic news this morning was that 16 countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund to support the euro and keep the problems in Greece from spreading. Here in the US, the Dow might be climbing, but people are still struggling to find employment and recovery, Dean Baker reminds us, is still a long way off.

The big economic news this morning was that 16 countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund to support the euro and keep the problems in Greece from spreading. Here in the U.S., the Dow might be climbing, but people are still struggling to find employment and recovery, Dean Baker reminds us, is still a long way off. Meanwhile, the people who created the crisis are trying to use the deficits they caused to force cuts in social spending--here and around the world.

It was in 1933 that Newsweek magazine got its start pitted against Henry Luce's Time --and its virulent anti-New Deal politics. This week Newsweek's owner, The Washington Post Company, put it on the block, its ink turned to red and its fiscal outlook poor.

"The problem is us," says Jim Hightower, bestselling author, former editor of the Texas Observer, and America's #1 populist. The problem is progressives, weak-willed Democrats, and others who have forgotten that our politics is meant to serve the people. We've allowed conservative demagogues like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin to seize the title of "populist" from the left.

Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, might have the reputation of being one of the world's glitziest, richest cities, but someone had to build the world's tallest building and the world's first seven-star hotel. Over one million workers have been brought into the city to work, often for less than a dollar an hour.

"The problem is us," says Jim Hightower, bestselling author, former editor of the Texas Observer, and America's #1 populist. The problem is progressives, weak-willed Democrats, and others who have forgotten that our politics is meant to serve the people. We've allowed conservative demagogues like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin to seize the title of "populist" from the left.

Will Goldman Sachs be charged with committing crimes? The government is now debating this very question, asking the Justice Department prepare a criminal referral, the first step in any prosecution.