• Tell The Nation: Voices of the Uninsured

  Various Contributors : Health Insurance

  Uninsured Americans have arguably the highest stake in the outcome of the healthcare debate--so why are they absent from the national conversation over its fate? Posted at 11:03 ET

• Bring on the Filibuster

  Thomas Geoghegan & The Editors : Congress

  Let the Republicans actually filibuster something, hour after excrutiating hour, in real time. The public won't like it.

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  Political Awakenings: An Unpublished Howard Zinn Interview

  Harry Kreisler : Activism & Organizing

  In this unpublished interview from 2001, Howard Zinn talks about his coming-of-age as a radical thinker.

• The Commercials Are the Super Bowl

  Robert Lipsyte : Sports

  The thirty-second spots for chips, beer, babes and flatulent slackers star in the big game.

• Ten Things to Oppose the Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Uganda

  : Ten Things

  Although homosexuality is criminalized in 80 countries, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 is the most outrageous attempt to sanction homophobia and threaten the human rights of all its citizens. Here are ten ways to oppose this legislation and stand up for human rights wherever you are.

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  Slide Show: Is 2010 the Year of Real Immigration Reform?

  : Immigration to the US

  A close look at the chilling conditions immigrants face under Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the policy proposals that could vastly improve them.

• Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry

  D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain

  The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.

• Howard Zinn, 1922-2010

  The Editors : History

  Remembering the pragmatic radical.

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  The Expanding US War in Pakistan

  Jeremy Scahill : US Wars & Military Action

  Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon.

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  The Editors : Political Analysis

  Morton Mintz on what Rehnquist would have thought of Citizens United; John Nichols on net neutrality.

• The Bogus Crime Wave

  Alexander Cockburn : Immigration to the US

  A host of politicians and pundits would have you believe that Hispanic immigrants are to blame for an uptick in urban crime. They're wrong.

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  Scalia v. The World

  Michael O'Donnell : Supreme Court

  Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?

• Transparency Can Curb Corporate Impact on Elections

  Bill de Blasio : Supreme Court

  In the face of a Supreme Court decision that eliminates crucial checks on corporate political spending nationwide, we must demand greater accountability and transparency around how corporations spend money in elections across the country.

• Honor Killing by Any Other Name

  Anna Momigliano : Feminism & Women

  To consider honor killing within Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence perpetrated in the Western world.

• Zinn's Critical History

  Eric Foner : Autobiography & Memoir

  Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s

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