Science and Health

Can Educating Consumers Help Make Farm Labor Fair? Can Educating Consumers Help Make Farm Labor Fair?

The traditional labor movement is hitting roadblocks trying to organize farmworkers. But campaigns that push the bounds of union organizing are finding success, on and off the farm...

Sep 20, 2011 / Michelle Chen

The Devilish Detail of Obama’s Speech: Deep Medicare, Medicaid Cuts The Devilish Detail of Obama’s Speech: Deep Medicare, Medicaid Cuts

The president plans to cut “waste, fraud and abuse,” but his proposal would in practice harm the neediest.

Sep 19, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols

Untangling the HPV Vaccine Debate Untangling the HPV Vaccine Debate

Rick Perry got something right, Michele Bachmann is all wrong, but we all need to think harder about whether the HPV vaccine should be mandatory.

Sep 14, 2011 / Blog / Dana Goldstein

A Nation Worried Sick

A Nation Worried Sick A Nation Worried Sick

We nurses see the concrete health effects of an economy in freefall.

Sep 6, 2011 / Deborah Burger

Slide Show: Medical Marijuana and the Seniors Who Rely on It

Slide Show: Medical Marijuana and the Seniors Who Rely on It Slide Show: Medical Marijuana and the Seniors Who Rely on It

Aug 30, 2011 / Photo Essay / The Nation and Steve LaBadessa

Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It’s Called ‘Medicare for All’ Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It’s Called ‘Medicare for All’

As another court strikes down the individual mandate, it's time for Medicare to be expanded to cover all Americans —affordably, efficiently, capably and constitutio...

Aug 13, 2011 / Blog / John Nichols

20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide

20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide 20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide

A new study says colleges are unprepared to educate the more than one million veterans expected to enter institutions of higher learning in the next decade. 

Aug 9, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin S. Donohoe

The NFL’s Concussion Culture

The NFL’s Concussion Culture The NFL’s Concussion Culture

Football players from the 1980s and 1990s are turning up dead.

Jul 27, 2011 / Feature / Nate Jackson

Eliminate Co-Pays for Contraception, IOM Report Recommends Eliminate Co-Pays for Contraception, IOM Report Recommends

All FDA-approved contraceptives should be fully covered under the healthcare reform law, a panel finds. Advocates see a win for women's health—and a political win for the Aff...

Jul 19, 2011 / Sharon Lerner

ALEC Exposed: Sabotaging Healthcare

ALEC Exposed: Sabotaging Healthcare ALEC Exposed: Sabotaging Healthcare

To a former health insurance executive, ALEC's fight against “Obamacare” looks familiar—and straight out of the corporate playbook.

Jul 12, 2011 / Feature / Wendell Potter

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