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Obama Presses Health Insurers to Give Details Online for Rate Hikes
Amid consumer furor over rising health insurance premiums, the Obama administration asked insurers on Thursday to post rate hikes – and the justification for them – on the Internet. …

Unemployment Rate Holds at 9.7 Percent in Spite of Snow Storms
Nominal wage growth has averaged just 2.0 percent over the last quarter.

TAKE ACTION: End Neuromarketing by Politicians and Companies
ALSO SEE: "Spellcasters": The Hunt for the "Buy Button" in Your Brain Companies spend billions of dollars figuring out how to convince us to buy their stuff, while politicians …

Raising Up Another Haiti
As Haiti moves forward from the current point of devastation of its population, capital city and economy, what could a different nation look like? Who knows better than the …

Out of Iraq? Maybe Not
This Just In: the war in Iraq is not over. There has been plenty of news of late to obscure this fact, to be sure: GOP Senator Bunning of …

My Name Is Ed. I’m a Racist
Alcoholics Anonymous knows that recovery requires acknowledging one's illness; denial cripples recovery. What follows isn't about drinking, but about a more cunning disease. Before I say more, I want …

Joe Conason | The Politics of Earthquakes
If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, perhaps it is that government regulation could …

Philip Morris vs. Uruguay
Philip Morris International believes Uruguay is Marlboro Country. On February 19, the tobacco giant filed a lawsuit against that country, charging that new health measures involving cigarette packaging amount …

Winter in America: Democracy Gone Rogue
The absolute ... spells doom to everyone when it is introduced into the political realm. - Hannah Arendt [1] Democracy in the United States is experiencing both …

Detained Migrant Women Shackled During Childbirth
Phoenix, Arizona - When Maricopa County sheriff's deputies raided Celia Alejandra Alvarez's workplace and discovered her hiding place, she says they lifted her off her feet and slammed her …