Fighting for Our Health
J. Lester Feder : Can Washington summon the will to cut costs, raise revenues and cover the uninsured?
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Christopher Hayes on the Department of Labor, Calvin Trillin on Rush Limbaugh, Sheryl McCarthy on abortion rights
Articles
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Healthcare Lifeboats
David U. Himmelstein & Steffie Woolhandler : The Massachusetts healthcare reform model may rest on impeccable political logic, but it's economic and medical nonsense
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Behind the Abortion Color Line
Sheryl McCarthy : Reducing unintended pregnancies is an urgent priority for African-Americans.
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Casualties of Care
Tara McKelvey : The privatization of veterans' healthcare limits the government's ability to honor those who serve.
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A System From Hell
Kate Michelman : In my family, two medical crises have added up to financial disaster.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Operation Healthcare
: Obama's hybrid approach to healthcare reform will succeed if progressives come together to support smart, incremental improvements in public programs.
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Not Our Department
Christopher Hayes : For the Labor Department damaged by eight years of Bush neglect, help is finally on the way.
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Noted.
: John Nichols on rainbow pusher Merle Hansen; Richard Kim on April's "queer quake."
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Dennis Ross's Iran Plan
Robert Dreyfuss : Is Obama's dialogue with Iran already doomed?
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Ten Things You Can Do to Oppose the War in Afghanistan
Z.P. Heller : Get involved in the peace movement. Demand oversight hearings. Read up on the war--and more.
Reviews
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The Hundred Days War
Thomas J. Sugrue : FDR's first hundred days were unprecedented in their ambition and scope--and anything but politically coherent.
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Back Talk: Young Jean Lee
Christine Smallwood : A conversation with the author of The Shipment about American theater, irony and Mariah Carey.
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They Fought the Law
Michael O'Donnell : An outstanding history of women's struggle for equality through the courts and in the legal profession.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Rush Limbaugh Threatens to Leave New York City if the State Raises Taxes on People Making More Than $500,000 a Year
Calvin Trillin : Is that a promise?
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Mrs. Obama Meets Mrs. Windsor
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.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Lose the 'Business'; Save the News?
Eric Alterman : As newspapers become increasingly irrelevant, is making them tax-exempt their last, best hope?
Crossword
Web
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What's the Deal With the Tea-baggers?
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.
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What Can Obama Do in Latin America?
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.
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Hearts, Minds and Hollywood
Nathan Gardels & Mike Medavoy : American ideals no longer dominate the global public square. So how do we compete for hearts and minds?
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The First Openly Gay White House Dog
The Daily Show : President Obama has done a fabulous job fulfilling his campaign promise to get his daughters a dog.
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Can Nonprofits Thrive In a Crisis?
GRIT TV : The Nation's Eyal Press and others on the fate of nonprofits in a world of falling profits.
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TruthDig
Judgment Day for Tax Cheats
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.
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Thailand's Tranquility Crumbles
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.
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Obama Derangement Syndrome Hits Beck
Media Matters for America : Glenn Beck's symptoms range from conservative paranoia to bad acting.
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Howl
The Upside of Piracy
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.
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Howl
Obama's Wall Street Rat Pack
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.
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Music Returns to Afghanistan
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.
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The Short of It
Lingo: And Then Some
Ange Mlinko : Would a master thesaurus contain the history of human perception?
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Laurels for Ange Mlinko
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."
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Reach Out to Cuba to Heal Guantánamo's Wounds
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?
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Rove and Cheney Return to Attack Mode
MSNBC : The Nation's Ari Melber discusses former Bush aides' ongoing campaign to 'keep all of us distracted.'
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US Must Stop Mixed Signals on Iran
Roane Carey : Anything short of a categorical, even vociferous US refusal to countenance an Israeli attack on Iran might have horrific consequences.
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Environmental Showdown on the Irish Coast
Alexander Zaitchik : A seaside community's battle to prevent a gas pipeline from ruining fragile coast and bog lands enters its tenth year.
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Roundtable: Sex, Politics and the Media
GRIT TV : The Nation's Richard Kim joins several other journalists in a discussion of the politics of gender, sexual identity and power
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Limbaugh Gets Lashed By a Listener
Countdown : The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses Rush Limbaugh's clash with an angry caller, who's a Republican veteran.
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Biden Welcomes Obama Back Home
Saturday Night Live : An overly gregarious Joe Biden assures President Obama that he held the fort down during his overseas trip.
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Slide Show: The Healthcare Fight
Images of the issues at stake, the personal lives affected and the players involved in the battle for healthcare reform.
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The Right on Obama: Big Sinner or Satan?
The Daily Show : According to Jon Stewart, the worshiper-in-chief can't seem to decide what faith he's going to adhere to.
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Credit Card Industry Defeated for Now
American News Project : The United States Congress and Senate pass strong consumer protections against credit card companies--for now.
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Does the GOP Know What They're Saying?
The Rachel Maddow Show : Maddow and Ana Marie Cox marvel at conservatives' lack of self-awareness or acquaintance with an urban dictionary.
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Morality Play
Liel Leibovitz : In the wake of the Gaza incursion, the self-deceptions of the Israeli military have been exposed.
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Noam Chomsky on the Heathcare Hold Up
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
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