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Reports: To Your Health—and Mine

Ear to the Ground: For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed

Ear to the Ground: Lieberman Won’t Budge on Health Care

Reports: GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed—and Unpunished

Arts and Culture: Behold the Food of the Future

Reports: Three Abortion Coverage Myths

Reports: Catholic Bishops Put Sex Obsession Ahead of the Sick and the Poor

Ear to the Ground: Senate Liberals to Majority Leader: No More Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Uninsured Twice as Likely to Die in ER

Reports: Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks?

Cartoons: Happy 40th Sesame Street

Reports: Testing Next Year’s Lies Today

Reports: Where Does the Caving End?

Reports: Don’t Let Abortion Destroy Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Harsh Methods Help China Keep Swine Flu at Bay

Ear to the Ground: Lousy Sex Life? Blame Plastic

Reports: Department of Health Care Misinformation

Reports: Kucinich: Why I Voted No

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Health Care Bill

Reports: We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Reports: The Battle to Define the New Health Care System

Ear to the Ground: Pot Politics: California Could Go All the Way

Reports: The Party of Choice

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Water Down Public Option

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Ear to the Ground: Surprise! Lieberman Stabs Dems in the Back

Cartoons: Vaccine

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Ruin the Public Option for Everyone Else, Arkansas

Reports: A Tale of Two Supermen—and Their Drugs

Reports: Playing Monopoly With America’s Health

Reports: Don’t Worry About Us Seniors

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

Ear to the Ground: Nancy Pelosi Promises Public Option on the Cheap

Ear to the Ground: Attn. Senate: Most Americans Want a Public Option

A/V Booth: Progressive Group Targets Harry Reid

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

Ear to the Ground: Sorry Grandma, No COLA for You

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: Condoms, Not Laws, Help Cut Abortions

Ear to the Ground: Snowe Helps Baucus Bill Pass Committee Hurdle

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Ear to the Ground: The Poor Will Have to Wait for Health Care Help

Ear to the Ground: German Socialists Make Do Without Socialized Medicine

A/V Booth: Keith Olbermann: Saving American Lives

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

Cartoons: Vegetarian [A Cartoon From Latin America]

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

A/V Booth: Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: Making Tragedy Out of Farce

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Ear to the Ground: Is Byrd’s Health a Factor for Health Reform?

Ear to the Ground: HIV Vaccine May Cut Infection Rate

Reports: Charity Should Begin With Charities

Reports: Now, Where Was I?

Reports: Health Reform Money Is Aimed at Red States

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Shady Deal Showered Top Blue Dog With Cash

Reports: A Clunker, Not a Cadillac

Reports: Talk of Bipartisanship Is Now Thoroughly Warped

Truthdig Podcast: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Selective Deficit Disorder

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Ear to the Ground: Did Somebody Spike Sen. Grassley’s Ovaltine?

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Close to Replacing Kennedy With a Temp

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Ear to the Ground: Baucus Bill Lands With a Whimper

Reports: The Other Public Options

Ear to the Ground: NFL Players Give Away Their Brains

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Reports: Wilson and Our National Character

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Ear to the Ground: Insurance Stocks Rise After Obama Speech

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A 9/11 Debt Still Unpaid

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Reset

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Ted Kennedy’s Letter From Beyond the Grave

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Take Blue Dog’s Word for It: It’s Worthless

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Distorting the Voice of the People

Reports: Health Care’s Senior Moments

Ear to the Ground: ‘Death With Dignity’ for the Public Option?

Ear to the Ground: Good News and Bad News About Swine Flu

Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: How Obama Can Win on Health Care

Reports: Ted Kennedy’s Humanity

A/V Booth: Ted Kennedy in Pictures

Reports: Status Quo Is Not an Option

Reports: This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Reports: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Reports: Obama’s Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Ear to the Ground: Can Whole Foods Repair Its Image?

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nothing Has Changed’ for Public Option

Cartoons: Hippocratic Oaf

Reports: Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera

Reports: Playing Defense Isn’t Working

Ear to the Ground: Obama Feels Liberal Backlash on Public Option

Reports: 10 Awesome Reasons to Pass Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Ready to Surrender Public Option?

Reports: How Bad Things Might Have Been

Cartoons: Death Panelist

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Republican Worries Dems Will Declare Martial Law

Reports: The Real Death Panels

Ear to the Ground: What Do Billie Jean King and Bob Dole’s Running Mate Have in Common?

A/V Booth: ‘Sick for Profit’

A/V Booth: Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 1

Reports: Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

A/V Booth: CNN Falsely Labels Public Option ‘Unpopular’

Reports: A Reason for All the Health Care Rage

Reports: New York’s War on Marijuana

Ear to the Ground: House Leaders Cite ‘Un-American’ Activities

Reports: Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work

Ear to the Ground: Rumors of Kim Jong Il’s Demise May Be Greatly Exaggerated

Cartoons: Arm and a Leg

Reports: The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

A/V Booth: Small Business Owner vs. Conservative Democrat

Reports: In a Wing-Nut World, Granny’s Toast

Reports: Read My Lips: We Need to Raise Taxes

Reports: Can Republicans Escape Their Extremists?

Reports: Health Care Tyranny by 13 Obstructionists

Reports: A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton

Reports: The Marvel That Is Medicare

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dogs Get Their Way, Progressives See Red

A/V Booth: Howard Dean Talks Health Care

Reports: Less Than Perfect Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Public Option Headed for Senate Death

Reports: Million-Dollar Baby: How Much Would You Pay for a Baby If You Couldn’t Have One?

A/V Booth: Progressives Campaign Against Democrats

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Reports: The Politics of Tenacity

Reports: Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets

Reports: Health Plan: Ask ‘What,’ Not ‘When’

Reports: Taking On ‘Big Food’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Met With Health Execs and Lobbyists

A/V Booth: Obama’s Health Care Press Conference

Reports: What Really Causes Autism? Thousands of Parents Still Blame Vaccines

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pushes Health Care in the Face of Delays

Reports: Take Politics Out of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: The Bush Baby Boom

Reports: Obama’s Aces in the Hole

Ear to the Ground: House Plan Taxes the Rich to Insure the Poor

Reports: Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried

Cartoons: Man or Mouse

Ear to the Ground: Progressives Flex Health Care Muscle

Ear to the Ground: Obama Still Backs Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Public Option in Critical Condition

Reports: Obama’s Long, Hard Summer

Ear to the Ground: Coffee Cure for Alzheimer’s?

Reports: A Doctor in the House

Cartoons: Soul Mate

Ear to the Ground: Washington Post Makes a Really Bad Decision

Reports: Designer Vaginas: Is Female Circumcision Coming Out of the Closet?

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

Reports: Getting Old in the Land of Independence

Ear to the Ground: FDA Experts Recommend Pain Drug Ban

Ear to the Ground: Dems Make Franken a Player

Ear to the Ground: Swine Flu Cases in U.S. Top 1 Million

Reports: Obama and the Stone Tablets

Ear to the Ground: ‘To Health’?

Reports: Getting Off the Grid

Reports: The Sickening Influence of Campaign Contributions

Reports: Poster Addict for Tobacco Law

Ear to the Ground: H1N1 Theory Reconsiders Origin

Ear to the Ground: Public Option or Bust

Reports: Daring to Dream

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Fail

Ear to the Ground: Deficit Could Be Obama’s Achilles’ Heel

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

Reports: The Bipartisanship of Fools

Reports: Why Patch-and-Fill Won’t Do

Ear to the Ground: Obama OKs Some Benefits for Gay Federal Workers’ Partners

Reports: Congre$$, Heal Thyself

Cartoons: Don’t Panic

Cartoons: Scared of Health Care Reform

Ear to the Ground: Congress OKs Anti-Smoking Bill

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Ear to the Ground: Swine Flu Reaches Pandemic

Reports: Why So Scared of a Public Plan?

A/V Booth: The View From Denny’s Just Ain’t So Grand

Reports: Harry and Louise Need Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Most Bankruptcies Caused by Medical Bills

Reports: Clean Coal or Dry Hole?

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