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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

The Surgeon General’s Commissars The Surgeon General’s Commissars

The testimony of three former Surgeons General offers more proof of how the Bush Administration's corps of inept political operatives subverts our system of checks and balances.

Jul 17, 2007 / Stanley I. Kutler

Why Milk Costs More Than Gas Why Milk Costs More Than Gas

America's kids will get less calcium because of our unabated appetite for gas-guzzling cars--and the wrongheaded belief that ethanol is the answer.

Jul 16, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

The Swift-boating of Mitt Romney The Swift-boating of Mitt Romney

Christian conservatives play the porn card in an attempt to discredit Mitt Romney and advance the cause of Fred Thompson.

Jul 16, 2007 / Feature / Max Blumenthal

Harvard’s Humanitarian Hawks Harvard’s Humanitarian Hawks

Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights doesn't officially favor the war in Iraq, so why is it helping Gen. David Petraeus devise a counter-insurgency doctrine?

Jul 14, 2007 / Tom Hayden

A Migrant Summit A Migrant Summit

Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

Jul 13, 2007 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

Healthcare vs. the Profit Principle

Healthcare vs. the Profit Principle Healthcare vs. the Profit Principle

Sure we have a healthcare system in America. The trouble is, it's designed not to make people healthy but to make money.

Jul 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

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