Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer did not have much in common during the three days of debate on the 2010 healthcare law before the Supreme Court March 26-28.

But they did have one essential characteristic in common. All four will never have to worry...

With the approaching Supreme Court showdown on the President Obama's 2010 health care law (the Affordable Care Act, modeled, of course, on Mitt Romney's law in Massachusetts), the U.S. healthcare system remains a dysfunctional mess, as nurses bear witness to every day.

In late March, the Court will devote six...

If there is one enduring message from the past year, it is that the days of silent suffering are over for the millions of Americans who continue to face a daily struggle to survive while Wall Street high rollers have yet to be called to account for ruining our economy....

In a year of ghastly stories from the economic implosions on Main Street, this one might have been the worst.

A Texas woman who was blocked from receiving food stamps for five months for the most bureaucratic of reasons, inadequate paper work, shot her own children and...

Amidst the scourge of inequality sweeping the world, marked by continued profits, pay-outs and record levels of cash hoarding -- the spoils of the 1% -- one group has come forward with a remedy, refusing to stand down. Nurses from four continents gathered at the G-20 Summit last week to...

Will President Obama be the main holdout when world leaders, under growing pressure from the occupy Wall Street protests across the world and the escalating demand for a tax on international financial transactions (FTT), meet in early November at the G-20 summit in France?

Nurses from at least four continents,...

The ongoing battles in the streets and capitols in Madison, Columbus, Lansing, Indianapolis, and other American cities make it clear that the lines are no longer just drawn, they are exposed.

There are two Americas. One where Wall Street gets bailouts, and another where public schools and safety net programs...

The past two weeks have been a "Where's Waldo" moment for President Obama.

He's been largely a bystander while tens of thousands of American workers, joined by students, and community allies, marched in Madison's snow and freezing temperatures, and slept on the floors of the capitol to defend their most...

There should be two lasting lessons to emerge from the heroic labor-led protests in Wisconsin.

First, working people -- with our many allies, students, seniors, women's organizations, and more -- are inspired and ready to fight.

Second, we need to send a clear and unequivocal message to the right-wing politicians...

President Obama's Republican-lite budget is a reminder of how off track the state of politics has become inside the Beltway, and why we could use some of the protests that rocked Cairo's Tahrir Square in the United States.

Rather than accommodating a corporate wish list that prioritizes deficit reduction at...

People power works, and not just in Egypt.

Blue Shield of California today announced a 60-day reprieve for the unconscionable rate hike of up to 59 percent it intends to foist on individuals and families.

The announcement coincided with announced plans by nurses, patients, and consumer advocates who stormed Blue...

At a time when so many Americans continue to fall through the gaping holes in our healthcare system, it's hard to imagine a more dysfunctional debate in Washington than the charade this week over the Republican effort to repeal President Obama's healthcare law.

Consider that, to name just a few...

In the aftermath of a tax deal that will accelerate the shift of wealth to the richest Americans, it's worth calling attention to a new report about how far the U.S. is sinking below other major nations in how we take care of our children.

A UNICEF report...

To listen to the rhetoric that has stained so much of the 2010 campaign season, you'd think the biggest problems facing our nation are excessive government spending, workers' pensions, and inadequate tax breaks for corporations and wealthy Americans.

But countering this conventional wisdom, seldom questioned by most of the press,...

Amidst the nation's worst economic recession since the Great Depression, and continuing problems in California with health care, education funding, home foreclosures, and lack of jobs, how do you explain the disgraceful spending by candidate Meg Whitman in her campaign to buy the governor's office.

According to campaign finance reports...

For some who take our most basic rights for granted, it may be hard to imagine that for nearly 150 years in our republic, American women were denied the right to vote. After decades of struggle, that included protest marches, arrests, physical attacks, verbal abuse, harassment and retaliation...

Passage of President Obama's healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of virulent rightwing opposition. Now that we have an insurance bill, can we move on to healthcare reform?

As an organization of registered nurses, we have an obligation to provide an honest assessment,...

After all the fanfare and high expectations that accompanied the prospect of national health care reform at the outset of this year, the legislation is staggering to a particularly inglorious end.

At its heart, the single biggest weakness of the bill rapidly advancing in the Senate, which mirrors the central...

Enough already on the hand wringing over the plan to start taxing employee health care benefits.

The tax is not a threat to the type of reform plan expected to emerge from Congress. It's a central element -- to pay for the massive public bailout of the health insurance industry...

Nurses are worried that it might be time to call a Code Blue on Washington's healthcare reform.

What started as a response to the healthcare crisis has morphed into a full-fledged healthcare reform crisis. The worse these proposals get, the more likely it becomes that our "cure" will do...