Science and Health

The Medicare Privatization Scam The Medicare Privatization Scam

Will an upcoming vote in Congress signal the end of Medicare?

Jun 27, 2007 / Feature / Trudy Lieberman

Michael Moore’s Sicko Michael Moore’s Sicko

Michael Moore's healtcare documentary is less partisan, less outrageous--but more real--than anything he's done before.

Jun 27, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Chris Hayes

High Stakes on Health High Stakes on Health

Campaign '08 is heading for a great debate: Will individualized plans or a broad public guarantee of coverage replace our broken corporate system?

Jun 27, 2007 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage

Watch Your Foodometer Watch Your Foodometer

Here's a way to consume less oil: Eat locally! Video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels from field to fork.

Jun 25, 2007 / Video / The Nation Video

Getting Real About Food Getting Real About Food

Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world: It's fast, but it ain't good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.

Jun 25, 2007 / Feature / Molly Schwartz and Donna Schaper

More Like It Hot More Like It Hot

To live and dine in California, where one in four is an immigrant, is to sit at a global table. And a bland national cuisine is heating up.

May 29, 2007 / Feature / Andrew Lam

The Doctor Stories The Doctor Stories

Atul Gawande offers up a banal self-help manual for aspiring MDs, while Pauline Chen prescribes a dose of compassion.

May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lizzy Ratner

An African Solution An African Solution

Two new books on the AIDS epidemic in Africa suggest that the best treatment may be found in the continent's own social movements.

May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Rice

Morality Gets a Massage Morality Gets a Massage

Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.

May 10, 2007 / Editorial / The Editors

Our Broken Mental Health System Our Broken Mental Health System

Although the mental health industry eagerly gives A.D.D. diagnoses to little boys who can't sit still, Cho Seung-Hui's illness was ignored.

Apr 20, 2007 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich

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