The truth is that you do not have health insurance, even if you think you're covered.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
If tomorrow, you could completely free yourself from guilt -- if you'd never feel guilty again, no matter what you did -- would you do it? Americans ...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Socialization of risk, a risk pool, is the very business model of private insurance for profit -- and government is simply the largest risk pool of all.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Can anyone tell me of any wall to wall on-site coverage of peace movement events over the past six years where the corporate press offered extensive air-time to listen to progressive leaders? I don't recall that ever happening. Do you?
Rupert Russell | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
At a time when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are flourishing in America's public life like never before, those charged with advancing their civil equality have retreated into the closet.
News Junkie Post | Leigh Ann Caldwell | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
These days, Rush Limbaugh's talk compares Obama to Hitler, health care to Nazi Germany, Democrats to socialists. He has excited well organized followe...
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Since when is it conservative to embrace new, overpriced, corrupt systems, like the health-destroying and ruinously expensive protocols of much of modern medicine?
Michael Krantz | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
I attended my local Tea Party the other day, and it clarified for me, well, nothing I didn't already know, or at least assume, or at least fear. The experience was, let us just say, disheartening.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics
The Obama White House has given the right-wing counterinsurgency a generous boost with its fits and starts, including conciliation on health care and waffling on a total rollback of Bush policies.
Steve Benen | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Across the country, untold thousands wait in seemingly-endless lines in the hopes of seeing a physician at a free clinic. And some of those thousands may very well be Republicans.
Jim Selman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.
Wayne Besen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Americans are human beings, just like everyone else. The notion that what we say does not matter "because it could never happen here" is jingoistic foolishness.
Michael Shermer | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Anyone who follows politics knows the standard stereotype of what liberals think of conservatives, and what conservatives think of liberals. They both have an element of truth.
Jerry Waxman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Willfully ignorant and incurious people prefer what they're used to and don't handle change easily. The progressive message has a long way to go before these people pay attention.
Howard Schweber | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
So there's nothing new about Mediscare-style arguments, rambunctious and easily manipulated populists, or Astroturf-style mobilizations. But there is something about this debate that feels different, and more intense.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
When town hall protests begin attracting large numbers of foot soldiers youthful enough and fit enough to engage in organized violence, be afraid.
Mark Morford | Posted 09.10.2009 | Comedy
Donald Rumsfeld is U R all dead to me. Reject my friend requests, oh yeah? I'll kill you all in your sleep. Kidding. OK, so not kidding.
Dan Agin | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Conservatives operate in politics by broadcasting lies. They lied about Social Security in the 1930s. They lied about Medicaid and Medicare in the 1960s. They lie now about reforming our health care system.
Zachary Adam Cohen | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
All Americans, regardless of political party, still eat thrice daily and because of our primal need for food, it remains an exalted subject that should be beyond mere partisan bickering.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Government can work, and the "Cash for Clunkers" program proved it. So, naturally, conservatives have to hate on it.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
The problem with discussing "issues of race," is that it dummies down the issue of racism to an individual level, when the real problem is at the macro level.
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of the conservative Washington Examiner, has nothing but fire and brimstone for Joe Biden. In an op-ed last ...
Cedric Perrier | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Perhaps what America is observing is political opportunism in its freshest form. We see this a great deal in the new order of the entertainment industry: fame without responsibility.
Dave Johnson | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business
Conservative free-market conservative ideologues manage to make a bad thing out of paying American workers good wages and benefits.
Eric Alterman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Obama's comments on the Gates arrest have demonstrated the dismal quality of conservative commentary these days.
David Dayen | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics