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Two years ago when he signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act President Barack Obama bragged that he'd dealt a crushing blow to the extravagant financial corruption that had caused the global economic crash in 2008 "These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history" the...

In a new video campaign "Voices Against Amendment One" Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould and Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat Fugazi Dischord Records) speak out against North Carolina's Amendment One a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage as well as civil unions and domestic partnerships...

President Barack Obama wowed an audience at a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in New York back in January by singing the opening line from Al Green's classic "Let's Stay Together" A clip from the event immediately went viral and it was soon released as a free ringtone on the...

Back in Febuary Mick Jagger led a blues performance at the White House featuring Jeff Beck Buddy Guy Booker T Jones and other musicians What President Obama enjoyed almost as much as the show itself was watching Jagger rehearsing the night before "It was really nice to watch him just...

We arrived at the White House on Easter Monday the South Lawn overrun by children and their parents enjoying the annual Easter Egg Roll This was the fourth time in the past four years that we had sat down for an extensive interview with Barack Obama but the tenor and...

One day in late November an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran The drone's mission to spy on Tehran's nuclear program as well as any insurgent activities the Iranians might be supporting in Afghanistan With an...

Pass through security into the headquarters of Obama 2012 and the effect is like stepping into the world's most high-tech dorm room Spanning the entire floor of a Chicago skyscraper the campaign's nerve center boasts a ping-pong table a staff of 300 and a life-size cardboard cutout of the president...

At least Bank of America got its name right The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time Did you hear about the plot to rig global...

Aubrey McClendon America's second-largest producer of natural gas has never been afraid of a fight He has become a billionaire by directing his company Chesapeake Energy to blast apart gas-soaked rocks a mile underground and pump the fuel to the surface "We're the biggest frackers in the world" he declares...

Back when he was running for president in 2008 Barack Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue" he vowed promising an end to...

Howard Stern took to the airwaves on Monday morning to rail against anti-gay politicians like Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann and to praise Sabrina Rubin Erdely's recent story about the war on gay teens in Minnesota "I'm a huge fan of Rolling Stone magazine" Stern told his listeners in this...

Every morning Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School her nerves already on high alert bracing for the inevitable "Dyke" Pretending not to hear Brittany would walk briskly to her locker past the sixth- seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs "Whore" Like...

This story is from the May 19 2005 issue of Rolling Stone Pul-e-Charkhi Prison a vast crumbling Afghan fortress twenty miles outside of Kabul is not an easy place for an American to wind up Its dank cellblocks house scores of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters Pul-e-Charkhi is also home to...

They may be shit for choosing a good candidate for the presidency but say this for the Republican primaries They're fast turning into the most luridly entertaining political spectacle of our time In an inherently conservative bottomlessly moneyed scrupulously stage-managed electoral system designed to preclude chance or weirdness from playing...