What Coakley’s Defeat Means for Healthcare Reform What Coakley’s Defeat Means for Healthcare Reform
Healthcare is in jeopardy, but it's not dead--especially if Democrats drag their feet on swearing in Brown.
Jan 20, 2010 / Feature / Lindsay Beyerstein
What Massachusetts Got Right What Massachusetts Got Right
Obama's opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our healthcare concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.
Jan 20, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer
How to Help Haiti? Send in the Nurses How to Help Haiti? Send in the Nurses
If Haitians are ever going to recover from the crisis caused by the massive earthquake that very nearly leveled the capital city of Port-au-Prince, they are going to need nurses.
Jan 18, 2010 / John Nichols
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Economics: Through Jobs, Freedom Dr. Martin Luther King’s Economics: Through Jobs, Freedom
How would Dr. King have responded to the current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure?
Jan 15, 2010 / Feature / Mark Engler
The Breakdown: A Healthcare Timeline The Breakdown: A Healthcare Timeline
Even if healthcare reform passes in 2010, many of its programs will only go into effect in two or three years. Why? Christopher Hayes says it's all an accounting trick.
Jan 15, 2010 / Chris Hayes
The Decade in Feminism, Continued The Decade in Feminism, Continued
Surveying a decade of feminism in 1000 words was clearly beyond my powers of compression even after I'd jettisoned the whole world outside the United States. Several people wr...
Jan 15, 2010 / Katha Pollitt
For Prop 8 Trial, Supreme Court Banishes Cameras For Prop 8 Trial, Supreme Court Banishes Cameras
Had the Supreme Court not kicked video cameras out of the courtroom, the Prop 8 trial may have enabled Americans to see how a controversial court decision is born.
Jan 14, 2010 / Feature / Linda Hirshman
Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your Healthcare Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your Healthcare
Here are some ways to cut costs and improve outcomes no matter what happens to healthcare reform in Washington.
Jan 14, 2010 / The Nation
Protection for Haitian Refugees Protection for Haitian Refugees
Crises like the Haiti earthquake serve as reminders of why refugee treatment must be part of immigration reform.
Jan 14, 2010 / Nezua
What Would Molly Say? What Would Molly Say?
As we observe the third anniversary of Molly Ivins's death, we are ever more the lesser for her loss.
Jan 14, 2010 / Column / Eric Alterman