| BLOG POSTS  | Howard Fineman: Obama Letter Sale: A Plan To Fix The Foreclosure Crisis
I am bad at math, even worse at macroeconomics. In other words, I am your standard political reporter. So take this for what it is worth, but I have an idea for how President Obama can solve the nation's never-ending mortgage foreclosure crisis. He needs to write a lot of letters. Specifically, by my count, 286,572 of them. I got this idea from the news out of Indiana today: Destiny Mathis, a 26-year-old single mother of three, is thinking of selling a handwritten letter she got from President Obama to get the cash she needs to avoid being evicted from her apartment. |  | Dylan Ratigan: America for Sale: Is Goldman Sachs Buying Your City?
In an era of increasingly stretched local and state budgets, privatization of public assets may be so tempting to local politicians that the trend seems unstoppable. What would it be like to have a government that is for-profit rather than For the People? |  | Dr. Peggy Drexler: Fathers and Familiar Strangers: Who Is This Man in Your Life?
From the broadest demographics to the workings of a single household, it's hard to find relationships that have changed more than in the worlds of fathers and daughters. A pressing new question is: How well do you know your father? |  | Dr. Jon LaPook: Laura Ziskin: Remembering A Pioneer In Fighting Cancer
Laura Ziskin's fierce, brave fight with breast cancer is over but she battles on through the organization she co-founded, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C.) |  | J. L. Morin: Modern Day Slavery 101: Losing Control All Over the World
What most people don't know is that there are about 27 million slaves -- real slaves -- in the world today. That's more than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1700's. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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