Healthcare Surrender Monkeys

America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Richardson Surge

Bill Richardson's edgy, opinionated and sometimes risky campaign is clicking because of his exit-now strategy from Iraq.

John Nichols

Let the CHIPs Fall…

Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.

Trudy Lieberman

Politicize the War

By sending Petraeus to Capitol Hill, the White House tried to smuggle in a radical war agenda under the mantle of an outstanding soldier. And people fell for it.

Chris Hayes

Taking Power

America is sleepwalking into one-man rule. What can the Democrats do about it?

Jonathan Schell

Biden One-Ups Bush

Instead of spending even more money armoring soldiers' vehicles, he should work harder at trying to end the war.

Robert Scheer

The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe

What, exactly, is the interest-rate cut going to fix?

Nicholas von Hoffman

Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health

With the exception of John Edwards's plan to eradicate poverty, the concerns of the poor seem to have fallen off the progressive agenda for 2008.

Katha Pollitt

Fidel, You Got the Wrong Conspiracy

Forget 9/11. Alan Greenspan escapes vilification for his role in a plot against America's economic security.

Alexander Cockburn

Bush on Iraq

Calvin Trillin

‘Jena Is America’

Jena, Louisiana, has become a national symbol of racial injustice, as civil rights activists converge on the town to protest a miscarriage of justice against six black teens.

Gary Younge

Letters

Readers write back about Bob Moser's report on a grassroots revolution in Kentucky and Liza Featherstone's coverage the Service Employees International Union. Plus, an exchange wit...

Our Readers and Jonah Raskin