Healthcare Surrender Monkeys Healthcare Surrender Monkeys
America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.
Sep 21, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Fear of Restrooms Fear of Restrooms
Now that we know there's a vice squad deployed to find people looking to hook up for quickies in airport bathrooms, air travel has taken on a whole new dimension.
Sep 17, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Welcome to Fleece U Welcome to Fleece U
Our mission is to take feckless teenagers like you and turn them into full-fledged debtors.
Sep 6, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Travails of the Super-Rich Travails of the Super-Rich
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
Aug 31, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Smashing Capitalism Smashing Capitalism
The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.
Aug 20, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
The War on Infrastructure The War on Infrastructure
Describing the recent bridge failure and steam-pipe explosion as "cowardly attacks on our way of life," Bush today opened a new front in his permanent war on everything.
Aug 6, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Opportunities in Abstinence Training Opportunities in Abstinence Training
Chastity advocates: Lay off the adolescents and concentrate on the vast numbers of middle-aged and elderly who aren't getting any. Make them feel good about their lifestyle choice!
Aug 1, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
It’s Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids It’s Easier to Insure Pets Than Kids
Americans will spend $9.8 billion on pet healthcare this year. Why is the President so insistent that we can't provide health coverage to poor children?
Jul 26, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
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
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 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich