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Status Quo

Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

If You Like The Health Insurance You Have Now....

D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


D. Brad Wright

There's nothing standing between us and being uninsured other than an employer who woke up this morning feeling like they could still afford to provide you and I with insurance.

We'll Always Have Tara

Gerald Sindell | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


Gerald Sindell

When we finally do achieve health care restructuring, I hope that some of us will take a moment to look at that powerful human preference for the status quo over anything else.

South African Women Still Second-Class Citizens

Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


Alex Matthews

South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.

Will Financial Crisis Lead To Real Changes?

Danny Schechter | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business


Danny Schechter

Are any of these reforms really about change, or are they just restoring a flawed and failed system?

Education Reform's Big Stake

Marc Lampkin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics


Marc Lampkin

As we approach the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the reality is there are still great inequities in the quality of education delivered to students.

Sam Stein

Zeke Emanuel, Obama's Health Care Alchemist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics


Ezekiel Emanuel has a fear of failure. Months into the administration, the prominent bioethicist and brother of chief of staff, Rahm, has emerged as a...

Obviously Obama

Michael DeJong | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Michael DeJong

With a smart president now at the helm, we'll be entering a new era that'll offer decency over hubris, peace over war, intelligence over beliefs, openness over secrecy, and creativity over the status quo.