Tuesday's Daily Brief

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Arianna Huffington: Lessons From Spain: "Los Indignados," Occupy Wall Street, and the Failure of the Status Quo Arianna Huffington: I was in Spain on October 15th when half a million took to the streets of Madrid to voice their frustration with a political system that has failed the people of Spain -- in the same way our own "Los Indignados" (Spanish for "The Outraged") are voicing their anger and frustration at a system that has failed the "99 percent" here in America. I was struck by how family-oriented the protests were. But when I looked at how the media covered them, instead of the thousands of families and children and retirees who marched in towns all across Spain, what dominated the airwaves were burning cars from the protest in Rome -- which was hijacked by a coterie of masked anarchists. Just as solutions to the problems facing Europe and America are not going to be found in traditional political ways, the truth of what's happening is not going to be found in traditional media coverage either. POLITICS President Obama Outlines New Plan To Help Underwater Homeowners POLITICS Rick Perry Unveils New Grand Plan MEDIA NPR Host To Step Aside Over Ethical Complications TECHNOLOGY Netflix Loses Another 800,000 Subscribers CHICAGO Jailed Occupy Chicago Protesters Describe Harsh Treatment By Police, Plan To Picket Rahm Emanuel's Office BLOG POSTS Alec Baldwin: California: The Next Dealth Penalty Battleground What passes for fairness in parts of this country, and make no mistake, we're talking about "parts of this country," is the issue. Keli Goff: Has the Time Come to End Affirmative Action? If there is one flaw in affirmative action as it stands now, it's not that it benefits too many racial minorities. It's that it doesn't benefit enough other people from non-privileged backgrounds. Rick Sanchez: Marco Rubio's Memory Problem Marco Rubio owes an apology to my parents and the hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans who actually did experience the hardships of being political refugees. Unlike Rubio, their stories are real. Sari Eckler Cooper: Does Sexual Dysfunction Lead to Divorce? When we hear about celebrity couples splitting up, it's often due to infidelity -- or so we're told by the gossip magazines. What is never reported are the couples who divorce due to one or the other having a sexual dysfunction. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks "We are caught in the perennial tension between the drive to good, and instinct to self-preservation that sees everyone as a means to our ends."

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