J. Lester Feder

J. Lester Feder is a freelance journalist based in Washington, DC.

Currently

  • Healthcare Passes, But the Fight Goes On

    December 24, 2009

    Before the healthcare reform bill reaches President Obama's desk, here are the issues that are still worth fighting on to ensure reform helps as many Americans as possible.

  • Healthcare Pressure Points

    December 22, 2009

    How do the House and Senate bills compare on affordability and enforceability?

  • Crafting Health Reform

    October 21, 2009

    Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.

  • Lowballing Health Reform

    September 23, 2009

    Progressives need to be as concerned about insurance coverage affordability as we are about a public option.

  • Healthcare: Heat Is On

    July 15, 2009 Subscribe

    Advocacy groups have helped to keep the public option on the negotiating table, but it may not remain in the final bill.

  • Healthcare Bottom Lines

    May 20, 2009

    A realistic public healthcare plan should rein in costs, fix uncompetitive markets and change the way medicine is practiced.

  • Fighting for Our Health

    April 8, 2009

    Can Washington summon the will to cut costs, raise revenues and cover the uninsured?

  • Newark's Great Green Hope

    January 28, 2009 Subscribe

    Even without an infusion of federal dollars, green jobs are becoming a reality in cities like Newark, New Jersey.

2008

  • Wrong Prescription

    October 8, 2008 Subscribe

    McCain would encourage employers to cut coverage. No joke: that's his plan.

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Blogs

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
8 Comments
Posted at 4:52 PM ET

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
32 Comments
Posted at 1:28 PM ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
25 Comments

» The Beat

John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
107 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
53 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
53 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman