1. The Lady Between the Queen and the Tribe
(Newsletter)

...2008 Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has nominated Bill Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, as his secretary of commerce. CONTINUE... ...

2. Obama's Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill
(Opinions/op-ed)

...or a designated number of allowances at an agreed on price for a specified date.According to Robert Shapiro, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration: "We are on the verge ...

3. The Best Cabinet Money Can't Buy
(Opinions/Humor)

...g the people who are in charge of vetting your appointments. Or you could even… nah, that should be good enough. Two Secretary of Commerce nominees have slunk away like hyenas chastised from a zeb...

4. Was Getting Rid of Saddam Worth It?
(Opinions/Politic)

...t now come Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has co-authored a book with Linda Bilmes, former assistant secretary of commerce, entitled The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of...

5. GM Radio
(Opinions/op-ed)

...maybe there is a distinction between what is unlawful and what is unethical. In any event, the FCC needs to investigate. Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, later to become President in the ninetee...

6. Google 'investigating' China block
(Archived/News/S+T)

Search engine giant Google has said it is investigating why Chinese authorities temporarily blocked access to its website.

7. Obama names Richardson to cabinet
(Archived/News/Global)

Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has nominated Bill Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, as his secretary of commerce.

8. Clinton 'to be secretary of state'
(Archived/News/Global)

Hillary Clinton, the former Democratic presidential rival of Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has accepted his offer to become secretary of state in his new administration, US media has reported.

9. US takes WTO action against China
(Archived/News/Economy)

The US has begun legal action against China over subsidies it says violate world trade rules after efforts to resolve the issue bilaterally failed.

10. Germ Boys and Yes Men
(Archived/Opinions/Daily)

How White House Cronyism and the Push to Invade Iraq Hampers the Country's Ability to Handle a Bioterror Attack In a major expose in the upcoming issue of The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jere