Fighting for Our Health
J. Lester Feder : Can Washington summon the will to cut costs, raise revenues and cover the uninsured?
Christopher Hayes on the Department of Labor, Calvin Trillin on Rush Limbaugh, Sheryl McCarthy on abortion rights
J. Lester Feder : Can Washington summon the will to cut costs, raise revenues and cover the uninsured?
David U. Himmelstein & Steffie Woolhandler : The Massachusetts healthcare reform model may rest on impeccable political logic, but it's economic and medical nonsense
Sheryl McCarthy
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Reducing unintended pregnancies is an urgent priority for African-Americans.
Tara McKelvey : The privatization of veterans' healthcare limits the government's ability to honor those who serve.
Kate Michelman : In my family, two medical crises have added up to financial disaster.
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Obama's hybrid approach to healthcare reform will succeed if progressives come together to support smart, incremental improvements in public programs.
Christopher Hayes
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For the Labor Department damaged by eight years of Bush neglect, help is finally on the way.
: John Nichols on rainbow pusher Merle Hansen; Richard Kim on April's "queer quake."
Robert Dreyfuss : Is Obama's dialogue with Iran already doomed?
Z.P. Heller : Get involved in the peace movement. Demand oversight hearings. Read up on the war--and more.
Thomas J. Sugrue : FDR's first hundred days were unprecedented in their ambition and scope--and anything but politically coherent.
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the author of The Shipment about American theater, irony and Mariah Carey.
Michael O'Donnell : An outstanding history of women's struggle for equality through the courts and in the legal profession.
Calvin Trillin
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Is that a promise?
Patricia J. Williams : Michelle Obama defies the boxes in which women have been caged, expanding the force field of feminism in ecumenical and unsettling ways.
Eric Alterman : As newspapers become increasingly irrelevant, is making them tax-exempt their last, best hope?
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart draws the distinction between sponsoring and covering the tax day tea parties for Fox News, since they can't do it themselves.
Greg Grandin : On nearly every issue that could either relieve the suffering of Latin Americans or help the US to win back allies, domestic politics will hinder Obama's range of action.
Nathan Gardels & Mike Medavoy : American ideals no longer dominate the global public square. So how do we compete for hearts and minds?
The Daily Show : President Obama has done a fabulous job fulfilling his campaign promise to get his daughters a dog.
GRIT TV : The Nation's Eyal Press and others on the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.
Robert Scheer : GOP "tea-baggers" take note: The Justice Department is closing in on offshore tax cheats. And former Sen. Phil Gramm, their chief enabler, could be caught in the net.
Barbara Crossette : As mob violence and political strife destroy Thailand's reputation as Southeast Asia's magic kingdom, the fortunes of Vietnam and Indonesia are rising.
Media Matters for America : Glenn Beck's symptoms range from conservative paranoia to bad acting.
Nicholas von Hoffman : The rise of blue-water criminals may not be anything to cheer about, but it just might force us to consume less foreign oil.
Nicholas von Hoffman : President Obama needs to ditch the idiot savants of high finance and bring in advisers dedicated to doing something more than gaming the economy.
YouTube : Afghan Star is both the name of the popular American Idol-type Afghani television show and an award-winning film about its embattled contestants.
Ange Mlinko : Would a master thesaurus contain the history of human perception?
John Palattella : Poet and Nation contributor Ange Mlinko has won the Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism for work that is "eclectic and astringent yet always lucid and generous."
Marcus Raskin & Joshua Frens-String : As Obama seeks to remake the US-Cuba relationship, why not form a partnership to transform the prison into a health research center?
MSNBC : The Nation's Ari Melber discusses former Bush aides' ongoing campaign to 'keep all of us distracted.'
Roane Carey : Anything short of a categorical, even vociferous US refusal to countenance an Israeli attack on Iran might have horrific consequences.
Alexander Zaitchik : A seaside community's battle to prevent a gas pipeline from ruining fragile coast and bog lands enters its tenth year.
GRIT TV : The Nation's Richard Kim joins several other journalists in a discussion of the politics of gender, sexual identity and power
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses Rush Limbaugh's clash with an angry caller, who's a Republican veteran.
Saturday Night Live : An overly gregarious Joe Biden assures President Obama that he held the fort down during his overseas trip.
Images of the issues at stake, the personal lives affected and the players involved in the battle for healthcare reform.
The Daily Show : According to Jon Stewart, the worshiper-in-chief can't seem to decide what faith he's going to adhere to.
American News Project : The United States Congress and Senate pass strong consumer protections against credit card companies--for now.
The Rachel Maddow Show : Maddow and Ana Marie Cox marvel at conservatives' lack of self-awareness or acquaintance with an urban dictionary.
Liel Leibovitz : In the wake of the Gaza incursion, the self-deceptions of the Israeli military have been exposed.
OntheEarthProduction : Noam Chomsky explains the lag between public will to de-privatize healthcare and political plans to implement a new system.
Cover illustration by Dusan Petricic, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels