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The Next Phase of Health Care Apartheid
In Washington, “health care reform” has degenerated into a sick joke. At this point, only spinners who've succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word “robust” to …
Europe vs. the Mammoths
Yesterday, the City of London experienced a “new Big Bang,” that wave of financial deregulation initiated by Margaret Thatcher, who allowed the British capital to impose itself …
Environmental Groups Battle Over Water Legislation
The California legislature has passed a comprehensive and complex package of water legislation with twin goals of protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta while providing adequate water supplies …
Provision in Health Care Bill Governing Prayer Treatments May Be Unconstitutional
The debate over the health care bill has reached a new level - a spiritual level - with a provision in the health care legislation requiring the consideration …
Italy, the CIA and Rendition
New York - The label “War on Terror” may be out of style as a description of American counterterrorism strategy, but Wednesday in Rome an Italian court …
The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-Up: Optimism as a Public Health Problem
If you can't find any swine flu vaccine for your kids, it won't be for a lack of positive thinking. In fact, the whole flu snafu is being …
President Obama’s Timid Use of the “Reset Button“
President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, will go down in history as one of America's worst presidents, squandering diplomatic, international and economic assets that were bequeathed …
Good News for the GOP? Not So Much
Ever watch “SportsCenter” on ESPN? Pound for pound, it's pretty much the most consistently entertaining program on television, but if you watch enough of it, you really …
Democracy and Capitalism Are NOT One and the Same
If Michael Moore had arrived on the film scene as a conservative Republican activist in 1989, he might be heralded by Fox News today as a major American …
Women and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran: A Discussion With a Nobel Laureate
“The Iranian women's movement is not simply demanding equal rights alone. It is demanding a larger universal reality, which is democracy.” - Shirin Ebadi, October 9, 2009 A …