The Indianapolis Star

Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget, said the focus on cuts is driven in large part by newly elected lawmakers. ...

..."I think the question is, should one drug compound do so much?" said Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.

The markers of a mushrooming student loan scandal are identical to so many of the rest: The Bush administration, determined to turn the federal government into a favor bank for its corporate cronies, ignored every indicator that the $85 billion-a-year student loan industry was rife with corruption...

Never mind, the Bush people said. The lenders could police themselves.

Every day at colleges across the country, financial aid administrators help students navigate the complicated maze of grants and loans they need to finance their educations.

So many took exception when New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo started a probe of the field's practices...

Cuomo's office, with separate research from the Washington-based New America Foundation, have uncovered troubling ties between student loan companies and college financial aid officers, who are supposed to give students unbiased advice on borrowing.