Carmen Russell-Sluchansky is a multimedia and investigative journalist based in Washington, DC, formerly for MintPress, and several other news agencies including National Geographic. Prior to joining Mint Press, for three years, he hosted daily international radio news show Due Diligence during which he covered national politics including all major policy debates, the 2012 presidential election and significant Supreme Court and appellate cases. Prior to that, he primarily reported from abroad including China, Japan, the Middle East, Haiti, Central America and Southeast Asia primarily focusing on development and human rights issues. He has also reported from the United Nations and World Trade Organization and his acclaimed documentary work on Haiti has reached millions of viewers internationally having been broadcast on major networks such as PBS, ABC News and Nippon TV. His work has also appeared on MSNBC.com and the BBC and in Asia! Magazine, The China Post, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel. He holds degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Georgetown University Law Center
Four homeless men warm themselves on a steam grate by the Federal Trade Commission, blocks from the Capitol, during frigid temperatures in Washington, Saturday, January 4, 2014. A winter storm that swept across the Midwest this week blew through the Northeast on Friday, leaving bone-chilling cold in its wake. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Z
“It’s Republicans against Democrats, and they’re not looking out for the good of the economy.”
WASHINGTON--More than 1.7 million people have lost their unemployment benefits since Congress failed to pass an extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation last month. That number is expected to triple in the coming months meaning more and more people will lose their only income during an unforgiving economy. The issue stems from a
The U.S. tendency to ignore international treaties puts Americans abroad in danger.
Edgar Tamayo Arias was strapped in the reclining execution chair of the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville on Wednesday night, Jan. 22. The warden asked if Tamayo had any last words, but the convicted cop-killer simply mumbled “no.” It was the last thing the 46-year-old Mexican national ever said before a regimen of drugs designed to end his
