News

• December
• Montana's "Clean-Coal" Governor's Climate Change Blunder
• WIN Looks Back At A Year Of Massive Jobs Loss As Workers And Unions Struggle For Change Listen: here
• Pentagon's Military "Mentoring" Program Closely Linked With Defense Contracting Firm
• US Military Is Meeting Recruitment Goals With Video Games - but at What Cost?
• Federal Appeals Court Sets Limits on Police Use of Tasers
• If Healthcare Benefits Tax Becomes Law, A Third Of All Plans Would Be Taxed By 2019 Listen: here
• Dick Meister | Rights, Finally, for Airport Screeners
• Dick Meister | A Lesson Too Long Unlearned
• America's Secret ICE Castles
• The Christmas Truce of 1914
• Anniversary of TVA Coal Ash Spill as Forgotten as the Disaster Itself
• Economic Report-U.S. Worker Compensation Up Slightly In November
• Ellen Hodgson Brown | Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?
• Some sensible suggestions on the health care bill
• William Fisher | One Court's Catch-22
• Investment theory: case in point
• U.S. Voters Oppose Health Care Plan By Wide Margin
• Gas could be the cavalry in global warming fight
• Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why can't the Democrats do anything right?
• The Individual Mandate: An Unconstitutional Exercise Of Congressional Power By Sheldon H. Laskin
• http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30844.html
• Mass Firings - The New Face of Immigration Raids
• Victoria Kennedy: The Moment Ted Kennedy Would Not Want to Lose
• Voting-Machine Firm Merger Investigated
• Voter revolt on lousy extortion racket health care bill
• Le Monde | Study Proves Three Monsanto Corn Varieties' Noxiousness to the Organism
• Federal Judge Grants Injunction Against Congressional Defunding of ACORN
• Supreme Court to OK Al Qaeda donation for Sarah Palin?
• Horrible new development in health care bill
• CDC: High rate of Indian deaths from H1N1 virus
• Caroline Isaacs | Arizona's Prison Privatization Scheme Is a Comedy Gold Mine. The Joke's on Us
• Mary Susan Littlepage | Nelson Proposes War Bonds to Fund Wars
• 16 Miles of Shelves with 50 Million Pages of WW2 Concentration Camp Records Opebed for Public View -- and more on same
• Art Levine | Can Obama's Jobs Plan Save the Unemployed?
• Mary Susan Littlepage | ACORN Did Nothing Illegal, Independent Probe Finds
• Congress Urged to Extend Emergency Jobless Benefits
• Has the GOP collapse begun? Hypothetical "Tea Party" Outpolls Republicans
• Philip Caper, M.D. | Health Care Should Be Driven by Mission, Not Money
• Next Year, Employers Likely to See Surge in People Quitting
• Organic Bytes: The Year in Review
• Unemployed Workers Hold Jobless Summit
• A Quiet War On Students
• Peter Phillips | The Higher Education Fiscal Crisis Protects the Wealthy
• NOW | Can Your Health Coverage Still Leave You Uncovered?
• Activists Protest Natural Resources Defense Council for Collaborating With Polluters
• Family Health Insurance to Rise Sharply Without COBRA Subsidy
• November
• FICO Reveals How Common Credit Mistakes Affect Scores
• Silicon Sweatshops
• Dick Meister | The Man Who Didn't Die
• Ghouls -- uranium et al. -- going after Mt. Taylor
• Jon Letman | Lowering the Bar: Kindergarten Recruitment
• On Healthcare, Don't Follow the Money WaPo's new rule of journalism?
• US Steelworkers to Experiment with Factory Ownership, Mondragon Style
• Rick Kissel Elected to Canegie Borough Council
• Jason Leopold | ACORN Sues Federal Government Over Congress' "Unconstitutional" Move to Defund Group
• Lou Dobbs Quits CNN
• Public Media and the Decommodification of News News behind pay walls is no help to democracy -- by Jim Naureckas
• Hospital: Ft. Hood shooting suspect awake, talking
• Northwestern Journalism Students Harassed by Illinois State Prosecutor
• Dean Baker | Massive Defense Spending Leads to Job Loss
• Obama says health vote 'historic'
• U.S. House narrowly passes health-care bill
• As Helen Keller Honored with Statue
• FAIR: Failing the Midterms
• Rick Cabral | Environmental Groups Battle Over Water Legislation
• Mary Susan Littlepage | House Leaders Refuse to Reconsider Kucinich's Single-Payer Amendment
• Twelve Dead, over Twenty Wounded
• Seven shot dead at US army base
• California Readies Expansive New Delta Water Plan
• October
• Robert Scheer | Lieberman Twists the Knife
• Activists show film on Mercury poisoning in Native communities
• Martha Rosenberg | What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech
• Steelworkers Form Collaboration with MONDRAGON, the World’s Largest Worker-Owned Cooperative
• Lieberman Pulls the Brakes on the Public Option
• Dean Baker | People Power Matters: The Public Option Lives!
• William Fisher | A Simpleton Tries to Understand the Health Care Debate
• Funder-driven outcomes The structures and methods of ForestEthics
• Pentagon Speeding Up Production of Bunker Busters
• Public Option: It's Back
• Jim Hightower | A Corporate Monster vs. "the Vermonster"
• Democrats Go After Antitrust Exemption for Insurers
• John O'Connor | The Value of Life
• A nose for sniffing out bed bugs LA Times (reg. required)
• Limbaugh Defenders Ignoring Long Record of Racist Remarks
• U.S. Chamber of Fascism
• ICE Program Under Fire By Jessica Weisberg, The Nation
• Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law 10-09
• Ralph Nader Throws his Hope in with Enlightened Billionaires "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us."
• Healthcare Reform Minus the Public Option--or the Public Waving the white flag and kicking the left, by Peter Hart
• Saudi Central Bank Governor Denies Talks to Replace Dollar 10-06
• Apple Quits Chamber of Commerce over Environment
• "Preventing Future Deaths" 10-05
• Risk San Antonio is undertaking in participating in STP's nuclear expansion 10-03
• O'Reilly Hit with Sex Harass Suit
• Jim DeMint: The Crybaby of the US Senate
• "Patent Pool" Could Ease HIV Drug Prices
• Why Getting Health Care Passed Is Insanely Difficult?
• Insurance Industry Whistleblower Blasts Senate Panel Rejection of Public Option
• Zach Carter | Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need
• September
• Connie Schultz | Banning a Book Near You
• An Anarchist Critique
• Ed Kinane | Drones and Dishonor in Central New York
• US Nukes Agency Pushes New Bomb Production
• Public Option Loses Round One
• Native American Press/Ojibwe News Closes
• Mike Ferner | Robocops Come to Pittsburgh
• Bill Quigley | Street Report From the G20
• Face It, GOP Doesn't Really Matter When It Comes to Health Care
• Ilene Durst | Denying Health Care to Immigrants Would Be Harmful to America
• Pennsylvania Orders Cabot Oil and Gas to Stop Fracturing in Troubled County
• Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
• Vacant Homes Give Habitat a Leg Up
• University of California Workers Strike as Faculty, Students Boycott Classes
• Robert Parry | Neocon Judge's History of Cover-ups
• West Virginia mountain top removal campaign -- Send lawyers, guns, and money
• Jeremy Scahill | Where Is the Defund Blackwater Act?
• Seasonal flu shot may increase H1N1 risk
• Eric Haas and Joe Brewer | Is Health Care Like a Food Processor?
• The New York Times | The Numbers and Health Care Reform
• States Can Sue Utilities Over Emissions
• NYT Slams Single-Payer Fails to include advocates among 'diverse' experts
• Dean Baker | Can the Townhallers Be Left, Rather Than Left Behind?
• Court Rules Voter ID Unconstitutional in Indiana
• Values Voters Summit Promotes "New Masculinity" of Ignorance and Fury
• "We Made Them Millions, and They Complain About Insurance"
• Connie Schultz | Outsourcing Hotel Housekeepers Creates a Real Mess
• UNITE HERE Rejoins AFL-CIO
• Rosemary and Walter Brasch | Late Breaking - Sometimes Broken - News
• Why this French Deal Is ALL of America's Business
• Robert Reich | Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan
• Marshall Fitz | Fact Check: Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants
• William Rivers Pitt | Back to the Health Care Drawing Board
• U.S. a global leader in weapon sales
• Pentagon Study Proposes Overhaul of Defense Base Act to Cover Care for Injured Contractors
• Chiefs furious after body bags sent to reserves
• Baucus Releases Health Care Blueprint With No Public Option
• Tom Hastings | We Can't Afford Health Care? You Lie!
• Poll: Most US Doctors Want Public Option Included
• The Healthcare Gang of Six
• Benjamin Dangl | Former Boss of Occupied Chicago Factory Jailed
• Sam Ferguson | Beating Up Thurgood Marshall
• EPA to Take Closer Look at Mountaintop Removal
• Real "Norma Rae" Dies of Cancer After Insurer Delayed Treatment
• CBO: Public Option Would Reduce Premiums Across the Board
• Chip Ward | Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West
• Can a Farm State Feed Itself?
• Connie Schultz | Shame Is Not a Health Care Strategy
• Save the Status Quo! Courtesy of Billionaires For Wealthcare
• Peltier: I am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner
• The Murtha Method
• Daniel Strauss | What the Death of the F-22 Really Means
• Nicolas Barre | In the Chinese Grip
• Camp Runamuck: A Providence Homeless Community
• John Cory | Money and Health
• Amid Noisy Health Care Debate, Free Clinics Struggle to Keep Up
• Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens
• Grizzlies starve as salmon disappear
• Truthout Has Unionized
• Bill Moyers: Uncivil Discourse
• HMO Claims-Rejection Rates Trigger State Investigation
• Michael Winship | Coming Soon to a Democracy Near You ... 'Hillary: The Movie' may turn out to be 'Frankenstein: The Monster.'"
• Diebold Selling US Voting Machine Unit
• Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty
• Part of man's pinky bitten off when scuffle erupts at Southern California health care protest
• Lawrence S. Wittner | When "Public Options" Serve the Public - and When They Don't
• Senator Lincoln Reverses Position on Public Option
• Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3 Billion Penalty for Drug Promos
• Right Ebbs, Left Gains as Media 'Experts'
• Martha Rosenberg | Video Shows Price of Cheap Eggs: Chicks Ground Up Alive
• Young Workers in Free Fall: One-Third Under 35 Live With Parents
• US Fares Poorly in Child Welfare Survey
• US Officials Cancel Contract to Profile Reporters
• Trumka: "Lawmakers Will Pay Political Price for Abandoning Public Option"
• Six Health Insurance Companies Investigated for "Purging" Small Businesses
• Wendell Potter | Against Wall Street's Health Care Takeover
• AFL-CIO, Democrats Push New Wall Street Tax
• Barry Scheck | Innocent, but Executed
• August
• Facts Are First Casualty in Health Care Debate
• Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English?
• Gentrification Fears Dog Sustainable Transport
• Police offer to pay for TV
• Supreme Court to Revisit 'Hillary' Documentary
• California Firefighters Wage Fierce Wildfire Battles
• Judge Rules That He, Too, Can Grant Access to US Secrets
• Health Industry Donates Heavily to Blue Dog Democrats' Campaigns
• Files Prove Pentagon Is Profiling Reporters
• Seth Sandronsky | Fixing California's Prisons?
• Cash for Clunkers Program Heads Into Final Day
• Edwin D. Hill | Forging a Green Economic Recovery at Home
• Opening the Window on Foreign Lobbying
• Clock Ticks Down on a Deadly Chemical Stockpile
• Millions face shrinking Social Security payments
• Dying for Affordable Health Care - the Uninsured Speak
• Competition Lacking Among Private Health Insurers
• Robert Reich | Why the Gang of Six Is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us
• David Sirota | Ban Guns From Public Political Events
• Biden Announces Grants to Spur Electronic Medical-Record Use
• Health Care Battle Tarnishes Grassley's Bipartisan Reputation
• Actor Kiefer Sutherland’s Grandfather Tommy Douglas Remembered for Bringing Universal Healthcare System to Canada [VIDEO]
• The Department of Labor under Hilda Solis from the Wall Street Journal
• Split on Health Care Goes Beyond Public Option
• Darwinian Struggle for a Place on the Endangered Species List
• "This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent." -Antonin Scalia, August 18, 2009
• Even with coverage of two major plans, some Oregonians struggle to get health care
• Power Points and Bullets
• Gay scientists have isolated the gene they believe makes people Christian.
• Robert Creamer | Public Option Is Not Dead
• GM Boosts Production by 60,000 Cars as It Adds Shifts, Overtime
• New Hearing Ordered in High-Profile US Death Row Case
• The Largest Street Gang in America [VIDEO]
• What's Wrong With American Medicine?
• Who's Behind the Attacks on a Health Care Overhaul?
• Six Lobbyists Per Lawmaker Work on Health Overhaul
• Marc Ash | Fight for the Public Option
• Obama Picks Fight With Left on Health Reform
• White House Appears Ready to Drop "Public Option"
• Report: Militia Activity on the Rise in US
• The Brutal Truth About America’s Healthcare
• Dick Armey Leaves Firm Amid Health Care Flap
• Michael Winship | The Gorilla Dust of Health Care
• The Real Death Panels
• Americans Working Much Harder - for Less Pay
• Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | Is Health Care Reform on Life Support?
• Undocumented Immigrants Face Life-and-Death Decisions Without Health Insurance
• Disabled Students Are Spanked More
• US Religious Left Wades Into Health Care Fight
• Town Hall Meeting With Rep. Kathy Castor [VIDEO]
• Within Health Care Hides Massive, Avoidable Death Toll
• Serious Injuries After US Prison Riot
• Whistleblower Speaks Out Against Health Care Industry
• Death Threats, "Mob Tactics" Disrupt Health Care Forums
• Joseph L. Galloway | What This Country Needs Is an Outburst of Common Sense
• How Ted Kennedy Countered Town Hall Goon Squads by Joseph Palermo
• Did GE Stifle Keith Olbermann? Fox and MSNBC's Gentlemen's Agreement
• James Kwak | You Do Not Have Health Insurance
• CNN Refusing to Run Health Care Ad Critical of Insurance Industry
• Desiree Evans | Unlocking the Vote
• Federal Judges Order California to Release 43,000 Inmates
• Johann Hari | The Hidden Truth Behind Drug Company Profits
• David W. Moore | Gallup's Anti-Health Care Bias
• Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder Jeremy Scahill
• Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than PA Officials Said
• Washington Lobbying Firm Caught Sending Fake NAACP Letters
• Arindrajit Dube | The Value of (Not Having) the Public Plan
• Language Lawsuit Fails in California Appeals Court
• Congress' Own Health Care Benefits: Membership Has Its Privileges
• David Sirota | Thirteen in Congress Control Health Care Debate
• Michael Winship | Pay to Play Is Washington's Sport of Kings
• William Rivers Pitt | But Here's the Funny Part
• July
• Schwarzenegger Cuts 100% of Funding for Domestic Violence Centers
• House Passes $636 Billion Defense Bill Despite Veto Threat
• Dan Rather Wants Obama to Help Save the News
• Bill Kristol - socialist medicine is better, but we don't deserve it
• Marc Ash | Why Health Care Isn't Going Away
• Beth Cardosi | Single-Payer System Cuts Barriers to Care
• Nine More Go to Jail for Single Payer
• Bill Moyers Journal | Profits Before Patients
• Sasha Abramsky | California's Budget Fiasco
• Schwarzenegger passes budget cuts
• Third World Scene With an American Setting
• Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Ain't Nothing Centrist About Them
• Energy Firms Help Pay for California Regulators' Far-Flung Trips
• US Citizens Wrongly Detained, Deported by ICE
• Whistleblower: America's Hidden Health Nightmare
• Nearly 2,000 Show Up for Free Health Care in Virginia
• David Sirota | Rich Have Highest Wealth, Lowest Taxes Since 1929
• The Christian Science Monitor | A Spike in Homeless Families
• Hospital Defends Secretly Deporting Patient
• House Passes Increase for Housing, High-Speed Rail
• The Rampant Growth of Life Without Parole
• Kip Sullivan | Bait and Switch: How the "Public Option" Was Sold
• Pelosi: House Democrats Have the Votes on Health Care
• ‘Experts’ Spin Nuke Safety Fairy Tale
• George Monbiot | Ethanol Boost Is Misguided Attempt to Cut Emissions
• Mike Elk | GE Promotes Manufacturing Jobs in US, Then Ships 'Em Overseas
• Black Scholar's Arrest Raises Profiling Questions
• Adele M. Stan | Republicans Will Be Toast in 2010 If the Dems Pass Health Reform, and They Know It
• On Friday, Lowest-Wage Workers Get a Pay Hike
• California Finds Pot Is a Huge Cash Cow
• Peter Coyote: Powerful keep Peltier in prison
• Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Halted
• Asbestos threat ‘underestimated’, say scientists Government decision on compensation expected?• Evidence suggests toxic fibres cause ovarian cancer
• John Nichols | A Real Win for Single-Payer Advocates
• Fights Over the F-22 Engulf Senate, House
• Antonia Juhasz | Chevron Owes More to Richmond
• Retirees Were Promised Health Care — GM Deal Breaks the Promise
• Feds: Domestic Violence Victims May Get Asylum
• NAACP Passes Resolution for Mumia Abu-Jamal and other prisoners
• Censored By ABC, Obama's Longtime Doctor Speaks Out [VIDEO]
• Citizens Launch Group To Halt Nuclear Reactor On Chesapeake Bay
• The Search for Environmental Justice in Perry County, Alabama EPA Ok's TVA's Dumping Tons of Toxic waste Upon Nation's "Black Belt"
• Transparency in the Federal Reserve with Bernie Sanders, William Greider, and Dean Baker
• Senate Panel Passes Health Reform Bill
• House Democrats Unveil Landmark Health Care Legislation
• Anti-Immigrant Forces Target US-Born Children
• American Children in Poverty on the Rise
• Off the Deep End Private Clubs, Public Prejudice and Racism 2.0
• New York Times to Charge for Online Content
• Deepak Bhargava | Don't Enshrine Discrimination in Health Care Reform
• House Overwhelmingly Rejects Signing Statement
• Growing Numbers of Poor People Swamp Legal Aid Offices
• Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
• Decision to dump TVA's spilled coal waste in Alabama community sparks resistance
• Health Care Reform Will Succeed This Time, Say Experts
• White House, Hospitals Reach Deal on Health Care
• Public Transit Loses to Polluters in Climate Bill Subsidies
• Jack Shafer | Pay for Play Journalism
• Investigation: Plant Switches Coal, Fooling Air Monitors
• WaPo Not Alone on Corporate-Sponsored "Salons"
• Seattle Doctors Try Flat-Rate No-Limit Primary Care
• "Aye" for Getting More Americans Registered to Vote
• Supreme Court Opens Door to Possibility of Corporate Political Spending
• Big Push Under Way for Generic Biotech Drugs
• Access Scandal Echoes Beyond The Washington Post
• THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S 'WALL OF SILENCE' .... Most of the relevant players have weighed in on South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) personal and professional difficulties, but Dan Gilgoff reports there's one group whose silence stands out.
• Michael Winship | My State Legislature's Crazier than Yours. Oh Yeah?
• Why American Policy SUCKS by Jill Richardson
• Washington Post Offered Lobbyists Paid Access
• Mike Elk | Worker Uprising Against Wells Fargo Spreads
• AMA President: Group Open to Government-Funded Insurance
• New Poll: Majority Supports Government-Run Health Option
• Wal-Mart Supports Employer-Mandated Health Coverage
• Why I Was Arrested in Coal River, West Virginia
• Community Colleges See Demand Spike, Funding Slip
• June
• Chinese Makers of Shoddy Goods Rarely Face US Sanctions
• States Weigh Setting One Bar for Students
• Brian Roa | The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
• Some Veterans of Recent Wars Find Homelessness at Home
• DC Metro Crash Exposes Funding Strikeout
• Mining Strike Site In Ludlow Gets Feds' Nod Gov. Bill Ritter will be on hand as Ludlow becomes a National Historic Landmark.
• The Political Enclave That Dare Not Speak Its Name
• Senate Panel Hears of Health Insurers' Wrongs
• Senators Claim $1 Trillion Health Bill in Reach
• Lobbyists Jockey for Position in Health Care Debate
• FTC Chairman Pushes Antitrust Legislation Against Pharmaceutical "Pay-for-Delay Payments"
• Limits on Emissions Have Wide Support
• Tara Lohan | The Food Industry's Darkest Secrets
• Big Health Firms Underpay Claims
• Public Health Plan Could Save Nearly $800 Billion: Policy Group
• Michigan Study: African-American Students Disciplined Disproportionately
• Court Says Public Must Pay for Private Special Ed
• NOW | Student Loan Debts Are Sinking American Dreams
• Voting Rights Act Narrowed by US Supreme Court
• Insurance Companies Refuse Autism Coverage
• Insurers Revoke Policies to Avoid Paying High Costs
• $80 Billion Medicare Deal Reached
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT) speaking for "fundamental changes" in our health care system at the National RN Day of Action
• Bill Would Boost Congressional Oversight of Covert Spy Programs
• Jobless Pain Continues in Most States in May
• Dahr Jamail | Destroying Indigenous Populations
• Supreme Court Rules DNA Tests for Prisoners Not a Constitutional Right
• Gates Decries Congressional Efforts to Restore F-22 Funding
• Asbestos Cleanup "Emergency" Declared in Montana Town
• Free Clinics Affected by Primary Care Physician Shortage
• The 'Bipartisan' Trap In Health Reform By E.J. Dionne Jr.
• Obama administration criticised over Failure to disclose coal dump locations
• Missile Defense Cuts Won't Threaten Security, Pentagon Tells Congress
• Federal EEOC Judges Suing Federal EEOC [VIDEO]
• Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan
• House Passes $106 Billion War Funding Bill
• Amy Goodman | Congre$$, Heal Thyself
• Kevin Zeese | Congress to Transfer Hundreds of Billions in Tax Dollars to the Insurance Industry
• Parents Testify on Kids' Insurance Burdens
• Study Shows Possible Link Between Deaths and ADHD Drugs
• Studies Show Need for Art Education
• EPA to Rebuild Uranium-Polluted Navajo Homes
• Promises, Promises: Indian Health Care Needs Unmet
• A Tale of Technology in Two School Districts
• Moyers Interviews Robert Reich on "Who Runs Government"
• Deadline Day for State Leaders to Close Deficit
• Northwest Utilities Turn to Nuclear, 25 Years After Industry Collapsed
• Obama Charges Backward On Health Care
• Senators Who Opposed Tobacco Bill Received Top Dollar From Industry
• Money, Influence and the Election of Judges
• A Wake-Up Call on Water Use
• Medical Group Calls for Cutting Use of BPA plastics
• Senate Passes Bill to Let FDA Regulate Tobacco
• David Swanson | The Rise of Single-Payer Health Care
• Private Prisons Turn a Handsome Profit
• US Towns Challenge Feds on Military Recruiting
• Increases to personal, corporate taxes OK'd by Senate
• Homegrown Hate Groups Increase in Number
• Report: "Green" Jobs Outpacing Traditional Ones
• All Trees Near Levees Face Army Corps' Ax
• Film Aims to Expose Dangers in US Food Industry
• Kevin Zeese | Big Breakthroughs for Single-Payer Health Care
• Senate Vote a Sea Change for Tobacco
• NOW | Behind the Food We Love
• Kate Bronfenbrenner | A War Against Organizing
• David Theo Goldberg | The State We Are In
• Near Washington, DC, Construction Crews Watch for Mystery "Black" Wire
• Concerns Are Rising on Water Overuse
• Henry A. Giroux | Remembering "Manchild in the Promised Land"
• Canadian, US, UK Life, Health Insurers Investing Heavily in Tobacco Companies
• "Single-Payer" Supporters Challenge Democrats
• Robert Reich | How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option
• David Rosnick | Unemployment Climbs to 9.4 Percent
• David Swanson | Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No
• Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies
• States Cutting Prison Meals to Save Money
• Military-Backed Schools
• Black Tide
• Military-Backed Public Schools On the Rise in US
• Joleen Hanlon | A Tragic Lesson in Anti-Gay Bullying
• Union Backers Target Starbucks With New-Media Campaign
• Senate Debates FDA Regulation of Tobacco
• Baucus to Meet With Single-Payer Advocates
• Obama Administration demanding overturn of Arcata and Eureka Resolutions
• James Forman Jr. | No Ordinary Success
• 46 States, DC Plan to Draft Common Education Standards
• Progressive Groups Push Public Plan
• May
• Special Operations' Oversight of Contractors Is Faulted
• Underemployment Presents Challenges
• NOW | Will "Green Jobs" Revitalize the American Economy?
• California Could Be the First State to Cut Student Aid While Hiking Fees
• Kennedy's Health-Care Measure to Require Employers to Chip In
• Yale Study: Damaged Ecosystems Can Recover Rapidly
• Uninsured Face Avalanche of US Health Costs
• Indictment Alleges Trafficking in Foreign Workers
• The San Francisco Chronicle | Separate and Unequal
• Two Boston Globe Unions OK Pay, Benefit Cuts
• Healthy School Lunch Efforts Face Daunting Hurdles
• Study Finds Fewer Walk-In Retail Clinics in Poor Areas
• EPA Mining Decisions Favor Coal Industry
• GM Continues Efforts to Cut Labor Costs
• Chris Hedges | "Clean" Energy and Poisoned Water
• How the Poorest Americans Dropped Out of Politics
• Obama Signs Sweeping Credit Card Reform Bill
• Maya Schenwar | Senate O.K.'s $91 Billion in War Funds
• Jessica Gross | Embracing the Twitter Classroom
• Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Rx and the Single Payer
• Protest Over Blue Cross Premium Increase
• Mark Weisbrot | Big Business Gears Up to Fight Green Technology
• Bill Moyers Journal | Reforming Health Care
• Baucus Flees From Single Payer Advocates
• Who Shredded Our Safety Net?
• The top 10 enemies of single-payer
• America's Poor Are Its Most Generous Givers
• EPA Urged to Act on Climate, Not Wait for Congress
• Robert Naiman | Will IMF Money Sneak Through War Supplemental?
• Housing Construction Plunges to Record Low in April
• Getting Detroit Back to Work
• US to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Autos
• FBI Infiltrated Iowa Anti-War Group Before GOP Convention
• Navajos Largely Unscathed by Recession
• Final Edition of Tucson Citizen Hits the Streets
• Corporate Dems: Don't Push Health Care Too Far
• Chicago Becomes First City to Ban BPA Bottles, Cups
• The Ugly Truth Behind Organic Food
• House O.K.s $6.4 Billion to Make Schools Greener
• Baucus's Raucous Caucus
• Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More NYTmes (reg. required)
• Seth Sandronsky | California Youth Prison Reform Rising
• Judge Prohibits Los Angeles Teachers Strike
• Senators Weigh Tax Increase to Pay for Health Care
• Frida Berrigan | The News on Nukes
• ACLU pushes for gay marriage nationwide
• Health Groups Offer $2 Trillion in Cost Savings
• Cleanup Funding Benefits Energy Giants
• Will Congress Keep Paying for These Two Wars?
• From ACORN, a Mighty GOP Fight
• Sources: Senators Weigh Three Government Health Plans
• US Threatens to Rescind Stimulus Money Over Wage Cuts
• A Marijuana Tax as the Next New Revenue Stream?
• David Vine and Miriam Pemberton | Marine Protection as Empire Expansion
• Maryland Becomes First State to Protect Homeless People Under Hate-Crimes Law
• David Bacon | US Courts - Enemies of Education?
• More Education, Better Health
• Obama Budget Would Cut or End 121 Government Programs
• Oil pipeline battle shaping up on Minnesota reservations
• Robert Borosage | Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health
• Corporate Friendly Democrats Press Pelosi to Shelve Climate Bill
• New Standards Could Cut Tax Breaks for Corn-Based Ethanol
• Health Care Activists Disrupt Hearing
• College-School Partnerships Offer Head Start on Higher Education
• For Her an Uproar, for Him a Whisper
• Camillo "Mac" Bica | Deadly Games
• Corporate Democrats May Kill Card-Check
• Students Downsize College Dreams
• More for Medicare?
• Dan Bacher | Winnemem Wintu Tribe Holds War Dance Before Launching Federal Lawsuit
• NOW | Do We Need to Gut Our Public Schools in Order to Save Them?
• Few Hospitals Go Paperless Using Free VA Software
• An Invention That Could Change the Internet Forever
• The New Homeless
• Inspectors Find Safety Problems at Nuclear Weapons Complex
• David Sirota | Democrats and "The Magic Bullet"
• Swine flu ground zero yields no clues Financial Times
• Hatfield: Swine Flu Shines Bright Light On Factory Farm Practices
• Air Pollution Endangers Lives of Six in Ten Americans
• Congress's Budget Shorts Obama Plans to Shift Wealth
• Senate Defeats Obama-Backed, Anti-Foreclosure Bill
• Supreme Court Conservatives Criticize Voting Rights Law
• US House Passes "Hate Crime" Bill That Bush Opposed
• Supreme Court Upholds TV Profanity Crackdown
• US to Take Majority GM Stake
• HHS Nominee Vetoes Kansas Milk Labeling Bill
• Capitalism and the flu
• Smithfield Virus? NYTmes (reg. required)
• Swine Flu Outbreak Could Be Linked to Smithfield Factory Farms
• UAW to Get 55 Percent Ownership in Chrysler for Concessions
• Hospitals Cutting Services, Staff Amid Recession
• Andrew Delbanco | The Universities in Trouble
• All-Electric Cars About to Be Resurrected
• US Acts Swiftly to Contain Swine Flu Outbreak
• Swine Flu Could Cause Pandemic, WHO Says
• Budget Deal Includes Fast-Track for Health Reform
• National Guard May Be Sent to US-Mexico Border
• Health Insurance Giant Launches Robo-Calls Against Reform
• California Approves Low-Carbon Fuel Standards
• Overcharged for Medicare's Prescription Drug Program? You're Out of Luck
• Strip-Searching Students Illegal? Supreme Court Not So Sure
• ACLU Asks Tennessee Schools to Stop Banning Gay Educational Sites
• Steven Chu and Hilda Solis | Building the American Clean Energy Economy
• Exelon Plans to Build Solar Power Plant on Chicago's South Side
• As Multiple-Death Shootings Surge, Congress Looks Away
• Colleges Push Tuition Aid for Illegal Immigrants
• Cancer "Culprits" in Tobacco Smoke Revealed
• Tons of Released Drugs Taint US Water
• Gates Tailors Defense Plan to Win Battles With Congress
• Official: Obama Wants Agency Spending Cut by $100 Million
• Seth Sandronsky | California Caravans for Justice
• California Jobless Rate Tops 11 Percent
• South Carolina Student Files Lawsuit Over Sanford's Stimulus Standoff
• Dean Baker | The Need to Tax the Wealthy
• Anthony S. Fauci | A Policy Cocktail for Fighting HIV
• Maryland Inmates Might Become Crab Pickers
• US Asked to Stop "False Information" on Medical Pot
• Drug Traffickers Move Underwater
• ACLU: Mentally Ill Suffer Abuse in Los Angeles County Jails
• The Growing Lust for Agricultural Lands
• NRC Says It Can't Ban Importation of Nuclear Waste
• Andy Kroll | The Corporatization of Public Education
• The Student Loan Industry Pushes Back
• Court Declares Al Franken Winner in Minnesota
• Utah Finds Surprising Benefits In Four-Day Workweek
• Keeping Those Bed Bugs From Biting
• Michael N. Nagler | The Cassandra Syndrome
• More College Students Run Up Credit Card Debt for Tuition, Books
• AmazonFAIL: A rapid response social media campaign
• Pentagon Prioritizes Pursuit of Alternative Fuel Sources
• No Strength in Numbers for America's Uninsured
• After Layoffs, Many Workers Go Back to School
• Evaggelos Vallianatos | Honeybees in Danger
• Police Killing Shakes Louisiana Town
• Free Clinics Flooded With Newly Uninsured Patients
• Carlton Meyer | America's 20 Percent Unemployment Rate
• Cyber Spying a Threat, and Everyone Is in on It
• William Rivers Pitt | Appomattox Again
• New Military Electronic Records to Be Model for U.S.
• Amy Goodman | U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege
• Eric Boehlert | Glenn Beck and the Rise of Fox News's Militia Media
• Obama Sets Up Formal Office for Health Care Reform
• Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
• Ballot Review Seals Franken Court Victory in Minnesota
• Democrat Wins Rahm Emanuel's Illinois Congress Seat
• Biden to Shepherd Test Ban Treaty Vote
• Antibiotics Pose Concern for Minnesota Ethanol Producers
• Job Migration to Suburbs: An Unstoppable Flow?
• A "Tsunami" of Boomer Teacher Retirements Is on the Horizon
• Dan Bacher | Schwarzenegger Official Tries to "Snow" Public With Drought Claims
• E.J. Dionne Jr. | Health Care's Year
• Richard Parker | Our Foreign Rivals Don't Face These Health Care Costs
• Recession Alters College Admission Process
• Gunman Kills 3 Police Officers in Pittsburgh NYTmes (reg. required)
• Over 100 Migrant Workers Arrested; Communities Demand Their Release
• Kathy Kelly and Brian Terrell: A Closer Look
• Phoenix police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of them
• Obama Climate Plans Face Long Route for Passage
• Study: 37 Percent of Californians Without Health Insurance at Some Point
• House, Senate Budget Plans Boost Obama Agenda
• Sanford Reverses Course on Stimulus Funds
• Heather K. Gerken | We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
• High Court to Weigh Relevance of Voting Law in Obama Era
• Congress Approves Public Service Program Expansion That Includes Education Benefits
• Andy Kroll | Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country
• House Takes Up a Plan Tied to Health Care Overhaul
• Google Shows Alternative Energy Firms the Way
• Harvey Wasserman | Cracking the Corporate Media's Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Island
• Out West, a New Kind of Water War
• US Carbon Emissions Trading Core of Clean Energy Bill
• Concerns Raised About Coastal Levels of Flame-Retardant Chemicals
• Unions Demand Geithner Fire Bank of America CEO
• No charges for fatal hit and run of Navajo woman
• Ballot Access Progress
• March
• A Showdown on Voting Rights
• Phil Wilayto | Marchers Challenge Virginia Killing Verdict
• MoveOn is not new to supporting war
• Eric Newhouse | Legislation Aims to Improve Veterans' Mental Health Services
• Health Care Reform Vital, Federal Agency Says
• How Insurers Blacklist Millions With Common Ailments
• Out-of-Network Insurance Practices Face Scrutiny
• Texas Science Education Debate Over - but the Win Is a Loss
• Winds of Change Evident in US Environmental Policy
• Senator Seeks to Ratify Nuclear Test Ban Pact
• States Consider Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients
• Will California Schools Benefit From Obama's Stimulus Plan?
• 7,500 GM Workers, 12 Percent of Total, Take Buyout Offer
• Hope Rising in US for National Death Penalty Ban
• Pharmaceuticals Found in Fish Across US
• US Steps Up Wage-Law Enforcement
• Strained Immigrant Detention System a Virtual Black Hole
• Good luck to North Dakotans
• Matt Blaze | Is the E-Voting Honeymoon Over?
• Insurers Offer to Stop Charging Sick People More
• Medicaid Suit Could Determine Who Decides Care: Doctor or State
• Having Almost Become Extinct, House Calls Stage a Welcome Recovery
• US Plans Census Outreach to Displaced Homeowners
• Diebold Admits Voting System Flaws
• DC Weighs Price of Securing Vote in Congress
• Tobacco's Influence: Will Congress Approve Regulating it?
• "Abuse" Raises Question About Law for Disabled Workers
• Seth Sandronsky | Labor Secretary Says Improvement Ahead for Workers
• Barbara Koeppel | Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
• The Washington Post | Shut Out at the Polls
• Thomas A. Daschle | Health Reform's Moment
• Several US Bird Populations Plummet Due to Habitat Loss
• Who Owns Colorado's Rainwater?
• Attorney General Signals Shift in Marijuana Policy
• Eugene Robinson | A Hand in the Health Debate
• Labor Infighting Undermines Political Clout
• Title I Turnaround Programs Due for Big Cash Boost
• The Los Angeles Times | Food and the FDA
• Sources: Pentagon to Reduce Forced Tour Extensions
• Report: HIV/AIDS Epidemic in US Capital
• Ericha Parks | Be Wary of "Start Up" Charter Schools
• Minister won't confirm belief in evolution
• Tuesday [March 17] to Be Last Issue of Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Tide Turns Against Schools as Foreclosures Rise
• Immigrants Face Detentions, Few Rights
• Sara Jane Olson Free Soon, Supporters Quiet (Yes, it's the Symbionese Liberation Army.)
• US Gas Drilling Threatens Health of Rural Residents
• ACLU Urges Florida to Ensure Felon Voting Rights
• Marc Lampkin | The Smart Kid Speaks Up!
• US High-Tech Water Future Hinges on Cost, Politics
• Choice of Drug Czar Indicates Focus on Treatment, Not Jail
• Amy Goodman | Put Single-Payer on the Table
• Passes Spending Bill, Eases Cuba Curbs
• Jennifer S. Rosenberg | Second-Class Citizens in Virginia
• Supreme Court Limits the Reach of Voting Rights Act
• Court Refuses to Expand Minority Voting Rights
• Ranks of Homeless Kids Climb
• Six Firms Stop Sales of Hard-Plastic Baby Bottles
• School District Cutbacks a Blow to Rural Economies
• McClatchy to Slash 1,600 Jobs, Cut Executives' Pay
• Nicotine Regulation Bill Gains Steam
• Minnesota High Court Rejects Franken's Senate Request
• Feds Seek to Drop Lawsuit Over Missouri Voter Rolls
• Families Keep Homeschooling Despite Tough Times
• Job Forecast for College Seniors: Grimmer Than Ever
• US Supreme Court Rules Against Pharmaceutical Company in Drug Liability Case
• Marisa Katz | DC Voting Rights and the Poison Pill
• Report: Diebold Voting System Has "Delete" Button for Erasing Audit Logs
• 16,000 Unopened Claims Letters Hidden at VA Offices
• Offer More US School Meals for Free, Group Urges
• Backers of "21st-Century Skills" Take Flak
• Bill Would Create New Oversight of Pentagon Costs
• Some Doctors Attempt to Silence Internet Critics
• Erika Wood | Don't Disenfranchise Millions
• Coleman Side Rests in Minnesota Senate Recount Case
• Pew Study: Cost of Locking Up Americans Too High
• "Green" Funding for Coal Power Plants Criticized
• Xe Tries to Leave History of Blackwater Behind
• Program Pairs Special Education, Gifted Students
• Cynthia G. Brown and Melissa Lazarin | Investing Wisely in Our Children
• High-Speed Rail on Faster Track
• Scientists' Stem Cell Breakthrough Could End Ethical Dilemma
• February
• Firms Defraud Government but Get New US Contracts
• Maya Schenwar | The Push to Downsize Defense
• Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Green Jobs Are a Way to Aid the Middle Class
• Bad Ballots in Florida Doubled in 2008
• Washington, DC, on Verge of Finally Getting Vote in Congress
• Study: Big Regional Differences in Medicare Costs
• Oregon State Secrets Case Is Bush Leftover for Obama
• The Los Angeles Times | Death Row Futility
• Who Pays Taxes in YOUR state? (click and then Hit state by state study)
• E-Voting Security Fixes Will Get Us Nowhere Without Stats
• DC Voting Act Not Facing Lawsuits Yet
• "Secret" Was Deadly for Montana Town Saturated in Asbestos
• US Clears Path to Bank Takeovers
• No Child Left Behind Found Wanting by UCLA Professor
• California Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to Legalize Marijuana
• Seven Days in America: Al Franken
• Demand for GED Classes Increases With Job Losses
• McDONALD'S: NO WORKERS COMP FOR SHOT EMPLOYEE
• Drought to Cut Off Federal Water to California Farms
• Louisiana Congressional Recall: A Symbol of Disapproval
• Proposal Calls for Elections to Fill Senate Vacancies
• Report: No Child Left Behind Unattainable
• The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness
• Coal Ash: The Hidden Story
• EPA May Reverse Bush, Limit Carbon Emissions From Coal-Fired Plants
• Amy Goodman | Jailing Kids for Cash
• Bill Moyers Journal | Washington's Lobbyist Culture
• ACLU Presses Right to Distribute Voter Information Cards
• Groups to Sue Cleaning Product Makers for Ingredient Disclosure
• Layoff Policies Said to Hurt Teacher Effectiveness
• Sara Mead | The Case for Building Schools
• Bill for DC Voting Member Advances
• In Blow to Coleman, Judges in Minnesota Senate Trial Say Absentee Ballot Problems Not Widespread
• Gene Therapy Offers Hope of Cure for HIV
• New Union and California Homecare Workers Fight Budget Cuts
• Talks Fail to End California Budget Impasse
• GM Considering Chapter 11 Filing, New Company: Report
• Burris Now Discloses Blagojevich Fundraising Requests
• Minnesota Senate Trial Judges Deliver Blow to Coleman
• Gil Kerlikowske and John Lovick | Restore Voting Rights to Ex-Felons
• Kansas House Panel Endorses Bill on Coal Plants
• Out of Work and Challenged on Benefits, Too
• Ruling Won't End Autism Debate, Groups Pledge
• Pennsylvania Judges Accused of Jailing Kids for Cash
• Peanut Company Executives Take the Fifth
• Farms See Big Crop of Workers
• Bush-Era Offshore Drilling Plan Is Set Aside
• Scientists Heartened at Prospect of End to Stem Cell Ban
• Martha Rosenberg | Big Pharma Gone Wild
• Judges Tell State to Free Thousands of Inmates
• Senate Recount Trial Resumes: Judges Ponder Franken Objection
• Thomas Elias | Case Threatens Voting Rights
• Job Losses Continue at Accelerated Pace
• US Using British Atomic Weapons Factory for Its Nuclear Program
• A Protected Forest's Fast Decline
• Doctors: Under the Drug Industry's Influence?
• Obama Team Revisits Bush-Era Decisions on Car Exhaust and Mercury Emissions
• David Lazarus | Health Savings Accounts Are Ill-Advised
• Dean Baker | Employment Free Fall Continues
• "Green" Classes Flourish in Schools
• A Vote for DC
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Will the Supreme Court Blunt the Voting Rights Act?
• Minnesota Court Questions Franken Bid for Senate Seat
• Insurers Hike Medicare Advantage Prices
• Salazar Scraps Sale of Oil and Gas Leases in Utah
• Arne Duncan: The Lesson Plan for Education
• Alison Lobron | Let's Talk About Sex
• $100 Million Gift Bolsters AIDS Fight
• Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster Raises Concerns About Similar Sites Nationwide
• Ohio Congress Member Urges Homeowners to Stay in Foreclosed Homes
• Making Sense of the Coleman-Franken Recount Trial
• Chris Kromm | Eyes on the Prize? Business Groups Borrow Voting Rights Imagery in Fighting Labor Bill
• Studies Find Mercury in Much US Corn Syrup
• Scientists Warn Biofuels More Harmful to Humans Than Gasoline and Diesel
• Blinding Them With Science
• California: Furlough of State Workers Must Start Now, Court Says
• Insurers Overcharged Medicare for Prescriptions, Report Finds
• January
• Senate Passes Health Insurance Bill for Children
• Dan Bacher | ISE Salmon and Steelhead Panel: Act Now or Lose Our Fisheries!
• Georgia's Voter ID Law Upheld in Federal Appeals Court Ruling
• Expert: Voting Machines Easily Altered
• Bill Moyers Journal | America's Policy on Bombing
• House Expands Access to Affordable Health Insurance for Unemployed
• Jump in Public Sector Unionization Raises Overall Rate Again in 2008
• A Mass Transit Dilemma: Ridership Up, Funds Down
• Interior Ignored Science When Limiting Water to Grand Canyon
• Peanut Processor Knowingly Sold Tainted Products
• Markings on Ballot Copies Upset Minnesota Senate Case
• Bill Delaying E-Voting Upgrades in New Jersey Advances
• New York: Plan to Expand Health Coverage to More Adults Ages 19-29
• Scholarly Group Takes Pulse of Humanities in US
• Major US Companies to Slash 45,000 Jobs
• The Los Angeles Times | A Texas Challenge to the Voting Rights Act
• "Open up Medicare to all"
• "Freshmen's Views: Politics, Admissions, and Marijuana" The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Aide: Paterson Picks Gillibrand as Next New York Senator
• Paul Rockwell | A New Economy Has Already Begun
• First Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Gets Approval From the FDA
• NOW | Power Struggle
• Jobless Claims Surge, Housing Starts Tumble
• Local Health Centers Key to Care Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jim Clyburn
• Labor's "Medicare for All" Advocates Test Strength
• Coal Ash Legislation Introduced in House
• Bill McKibben | Fiddling While the Coal Burns
• Congress, Obama Toil to Help Jobless Get Health Care
• Firing The Boss Benjamin Dangl Interviews Mark Meinster
• Citigroup Posts $8.29 Billion Loss, Splits Up the Company
• Gold Mine Wants Court to OK Dumping Waste in Lake
• Abbie McCeney | The Acts of Change
• Study Finds Not Enough Time to Vote for Many Overseas Military Personnel
• House Votes to Expand Children's Health Program
• Agriculture Nominee Vilsack: Supporter of Genetic Engineering and Corporate Farming
• Ex-Cop Charged With Murder in California Shooting
• Ben Adler | Would the National Popular Vote Advantage Red-State Republicans?
• Struggling States Cut Health Care for Poor
• Maryland: As State Increased School Aid, Grades Went Up
• Alan I. Leshner | A Wake-Up Call for Science Education
• Why Franken Struggled Where Obama Didn't
• As Judges Named, Minnesota Senate Legal Fight Grows
• Amanda Marcotte | Health Care Reform: Good for Patients, Good for Workers
• Guerrilla Tactics at Oil-Lease Auction
• Scientists Track Poverty's Links to Cognition
• More Americans Getting Multiple Chronic Illnesses
• Senate Boosts Wilderness Protection Across US
• California Unveils Six-Step Strategy to Promote Green Chemistry
• CEO Blasted for Lack of Answers at Ash Disaster Hearing
• Michael Winship | What Am I Bid for the American Wild?
• Immigrant Advocates Decry New Rules on Courts, DNA
• Dan Bacher | Schwarzenegger Starts 2009 by Shoving Peripheral Canal Down the California Taxpayer's Throat
• House Launches New Labor Agenda With Wage Discrimination Bill
• Laine Alison Zalac | Addressing Inequity in Education
• Ben Furnas | American Health Care Since 1994: The Unacceptable Status Quo
• Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Voting Rights Act
• Blagojevich Impeached, Will Face Trial
• Minnesota Lawmakers Look at Election Reforms, Post-Recount
• Senate Close to Seating Burris to Replace Obama
• Part III: A Handshake That Made Health Care History
• Venezuela Reinstates Free Home Heating Oil for Poor in US
• Coal Ash Spill Reveals Risks, Lapses in Waste Regulation
• Engineer: Ash Spill Warning Signs Ignored
• Gates Estimates Another $69.7 Billion Needed in Fiscal 2009 for Wars
• December Job Losses at 673,000, Worse Than Thought
• Part II: Fueled by Profits, a Healthcare Giant Takes Aim at Suburbs
• Congress Takes Up DC Voting Rights Bill
• Coleman Sues Over Minnesota Senate Recount Result
• Texas: State Senator Seeks End to Straight-Ticket Voting
• Burris Denied Seat in US Senate to Succeed Obama
• Al Franken: "I Work for You Now"
• Part I: A Health Care System Badly Out of Balance
• US Auto Sales Plunge Whopping 36 Percent in December
• Neediest Students Get Newest Teachers
• Wanted: More Science and Math Teachers in the US
• Life "Meaningless" for One in Ten Young Adults
• The Boston Globe | Wind, Waves, and Watts
• Greening the Ghetto
• Franken up 225 With Recount Complete; Focus Turns to Court
• Michael Bennet Chosen as Colorado's Next Senator
• Four Senate Seats Still Up in the Air
• US Ends Oversight of Boston Elections
• Arsenic Levels Too High in a California State Prison's Drinking Water
• US Manufacturing Slumps to 1980 Low
• One Group That Still Is Getting a Raise - Congress
• Idaho Senator Larry Craig Seeks $3 Million for Dams and Reservoirs
• Fitzgerald Seeks Extension for Indicting Blagojevich