In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming In the Next Round of Budget Talks, Big Cuts for Health Research Are Coming
One of the agencies hardest hit by Congress’s 2011 appropriations bill is likely to be the world’s largest investor in biomedical research, the National Institutes of H...
Apr 11, 2011 / Rachel Riederer
Paul Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare Paul Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare
The threatened government shutdown was averted, but Democrats agreed to $38 billion in budget cuts. Here's what we'll see in the next negotiations.
Apr 7, 2011 / The Editors
Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List? Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List?
If Democrats engage with Republicans on their absurd proposition to cut Medicare, then we will have a real problem.
Apr 5, 2011 / Press Room
Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List? Is Medicare Next on the GOP’s Hit List?
If Democrats engage with Republicans on their absurd proposition to cut Medicare, then we will have a real problem.
Apr 5, 2011 / The Rachel Maddow Show
Big Pharma Strikes Again Big Pharma Strikes Again
Republicans often bemoan what they view as the heavy burden of government regulation. But the absence of such regulation, combined with the prevalence of industry-bought loopholes,...
Mar 29, 2011 / Ari Berman
Wish of an NFL Wife Wish of an NFL Wife
Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita has been through the physical and mental wringer in twenty years of playing the game of football. His partner, Jaclyn Fujita, wants the nex...
Mar 21, 2011 / Dave Zirin
Georgia Bill Would Allow Wrongful Death Suits on Behalf of Fetuses Georgia Bill Would Allow Wrongful Death Suits on Behalf of Fetuses
Stacey Abrams fights the antiabortion wackos so you don’t have to.
Mar 16, 2011 / Sharon Lerner
Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand Burying Our Heads in Radioactive Sand
Is Earth becoming Easter Island?
Mar 15, 2011 / Leslie Savan
Republicans Push the Mississippi Model Republicans Push the Mississippi Model
Looking at an unhappy future shaped by family planning cuts.
Mar 15, 2011 / Sharon Lerner
Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here? Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here?
The US has twenty-three reactors of the same design as the Fukushima No. 1 reactor that is now in partial meltdown, and our federal regulators are captives of the nuclear industry.
Mar 14, 2011 / Christian Parenti