Society

It’s Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids It’s Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids

Americans will spend $9.8 billion on pet healthcare this year. Why is the President so insistent that we can't provide health coverage to poor children?

Jul 26, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

All Rupert, All the Time All Rupert, All the Time

Will Rupert Murdoch's play to own and operate the Wall Street Journal have a silver lining for liberals?

Jul 26, 2007 / Column / Eric Alterman

Dangerous Privilege Dangerous Privilege

We need a law to define and limit the President's claim of executive privilege, and should set a process for Congress to overcome it.

Jul 26, 2007 / Aziz Huq

Gardening for Change in the City Gardening for Change in the City

Local food projects and community gardens are springing up in urban areas all over the country, cutting a promising new path to empowering the poor.

Jul 23, 2007 / Feature / Sophie Johnson

Who Let the Dogs Out on Michael Vick? Who Let the Dogs Out on Michael Vick?

With the indictment of the Atlanta Falcons quarterback on federal conspiracy charges for running an alleged dogfighting operation, the media went into attack mode.

Jul 19, 2007 / Column / Dave Zirin

The Virginity Mystique The Virginity Mystique

Wendy Shalit's new book pits "good girls" against "girls gone wild." But where's the middle ground?

Jul 19, 2007 / Feature / Nona Willis Aronowitz

What Causes Cancer? Probably Not You What Causes Cancer? Probably Not You

The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or some grave moral failing just took another hit.

Jul 19, 2007 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich

YearlyKos Sticks With the Issues YearlyKos Sticks With the Issues

A netroots political convention in Chicago aims to transcend the horse race and let the people, not the media, frame the questions put to candidates.

Jul 18, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber and Andrea Batista Schlesinger

A Challenge to Progressives on Choice A Challenge to Progressives on Choice

New reproductive technologies that could allow the rich to become genetically richer and the poor even more disadvantaged are challenging progressives to take a fresh look at core ...

Jul 18, 2007 / Samuel Berger

Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later

In the summer of 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, and scores of other US cities exploded in racial violence. Forty years later, the impact is still palpable.

Jul 17, 2007 / Feature / Peter Dreier

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