Society

Remember the Women? Remember the Women?

Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.

Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Ann Jones

Crafting Health Reform Crafting Health Reform

Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.

Oct 21, 2009 / J. Lester Feder

Just Don’t Call It ‘Journalism’ Just Don’t Call It ‘Journalism’

By refusing to acknowledge Fox News's avowed partisanship, its MSM defenders diminish the work of honest journalists who try to play fair.

Oct 21, 2009 / Column / Eric Alterman

Nobel Peace Sparks War Nobel Peace Sparks War

It's peculiar, the vocabulary that makes a liability out of the Nobel Prize.

Oct 21, 2009 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea Why the Health Insurance Excise Tax Is a Bad Idea

Max Baucus's scheme to tax the benefits of workers slightly better off--so revenue can be raised for private insurance subsidies--is a lose-lose proposition.

Oct 21, 2009 / Steve Early and Rand Wilson

Pelosi Champions the Public Option Pelosi Champions the Public Option

A Congressional Budget Office report suggesting that a robust public option would actually cut the deficit seems to have lit a fire under Speaker Pelosi.

Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Lindsay Beyerstein

Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED Low-Income Students Need your Help! UPDATED

The school year is well underway, and most of you know how savage the budget cuts have been. Excellent teachers who care about their students –yes, they exist! --are struggli...

Oct 21, 2009 / Katha Pollitt

The Right Goes Viral The Right Goes Viral

A new site lets you rate teachers, review textbooks and "raise awareness about America’s slide to communism."

Oct 21, 2009 / StudentNation / Francis Reynolds

Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’ Seeing Through the ‘Morehouse Mystique’

New clothing rules reveal Morehouse College's disregard for the T in LGBT.

Oct 20, 2009 / StudentNation / The Nation

A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now? A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now?

The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.

Oct 15, 2009 / Feature / Sarah Stodola

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