Factcheck.org: Distorting McCain's Remarks | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008

Out of Work, Out of Hope
Nancy Cook 7/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
At this point in her life, Kelley Krostoski has a few relatively simple expectations: a successful career as a high tech and management consultant that would easily afford her the ability to pay her two daughters' college tuition, plus enough for a comfortable retirement in her town of Beaverton just outside of Portland, Ore.
Making Sense of Stimulus Spending
6/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
A Republican Party Web site classifies as "fiction" the president's repeated claim that the spending already has "saved or created" a total of 150,000 jobs, and accuses him of "fuzzy math."
BUSINESS
We Are Not In This Together
Zachary Karabell 4/11/2009 12:00:00 AM
More than 4 million Americans have been fired since last fall, and the job losses are far from over. April began with yet another stunningly bad report—663,000 jobs lost. The unemployment rate, now 8.5 percent, is likely to hit double digits over the coming months. Some economists say that even if the economy begins to recover later this year, it may not pick up enough steam to bring down unemployment until well into 2010. Few regions of the county have been spared, and the headlines have been dire. IN EPIDEMIC OF LAYOFFS, NO ONE IS IMMUNE, blared The Philadelphia Inquirer. SILICON VALLEY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE JUMPS TO A FRIGHTENING 9.4 PERCENT, wrote the San Jose Mercury News. Nearly everyone seems to know a horror story—the Wall Street banker abruptly escorted from his office; the small-business owner forced to close her shop on Main Street; the auto worker who spent decades on the same factory floor where his father once worked.
PROJECT GREEN
Why It’s Time for a ‘Green New Deal’
Christopher Dickey 11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
In rented offices on a quiet side street in Paris, not far from the Eiffel Tower, analysts for the International Energy Agency spend long days and nights crunching numbers about oil production and greenhouse-gas emissions. They're the staid, sober global accountants who watch over the power supply for the 30 rich countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and their many reports are dry and technical. But lately, the group's pronouncements have taken on more ominous overtones. With a sense of urgency bordering on desperation, the IEA has begun calling for radical changes in the way the world drives its cars, its factories and, indeed, the global economy. This month the agency will issue a collection of comprehensive reports declaring that "a global revolution is needed in ways that energy is supplied and used."
FACTCHECK.ORG
Distorting the DHL Deal
Joe Miller 8/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
There's at least some truth in both ads: German-based DHL announced a deal that could result in 8,200 lost jobs in Wilmington, Ohio. And McCain did in fact oppose an amendment that would have kept DHL from buying Wilmington-based Airborne Express. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, was also a DHL lobbyist charged with easing the merger through the Senate.
PERISCOPE
Campaign Diplomacy: Why America May Take A Harder Line Against Russia

For seven years George W. Bush heaped praise on Vladimir Putin, saying that he had looked into the Russian president's soul and liked what he saw. That was before clashes over U.S. plans to expand NATO's reach into former Soviet territory put some distance between Bush and his "good friend" and provoked talk of a new cold war. Now, as Bush prepares to step down, all of his potential successors are preparing an even harder line on Putin's Russia.