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Healthy Debate
The Washington Post leads with a look at the evolving debate over health care reform. While previous reform efforts reffered to providing universal coverage a moral issue, President Barack Obama is instead focusing on reigning… Read more »
In his later years, did Walter Cronkite wish he had run for vice president in 1972 with George McGovern?
Vice President Walter Cronkite has a nice ring to it, and according to an op-ed in today's (July 25) Washington Post by Frank Mankiewicz—political director of George McGovern's 1972 presidential… Read more »
Will the "Sotomayor standard" make it harder for Obama to seat his next justice?
Throughout the weeks leading up to the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, one often heard it said that President Obama was thinking in threes. He wasn't just seating this… Read more »
Walking it back on Skip Gates, while health care hits another speed bump.
The New York Times and Washington Post lead and the Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox with President Obama's attempt to back away from his earlier criticism of the… Read more »
How much cash can you cram into a cereal box?
Federal agents arrested 44 people on Thursday, including five New Jersey politicians and five rabbis, as part of an investigation into corruption, organ sales, and bank fraud. One of the… Read more »
The arrests of rabbis who trafficked body parts uncover more complicated issues.
With the right ingredients of salaciousness and scandal, the news appeared to be straight out of a Hollywood screenplay: corrupt politicians, money laundering, people being arrested by the busload, raids… Read more »
A poll shows the public (mostly) still supports health care reform.
Health reform is now sufficiently stalled in the House energy and commerce committee that Rep. John Larson of Connecticut, chairman of the Democratic caucus, is threatening to bypass it and… Read more »
Reviews of: G-Force, The Ugly Truth, and Orphan
A daily video from Slate V.[more ...]... Read more »
Is Sarah Palin right about taxing polluters? A thought experiment.
I think it's time to cut Sarah Palin a little slack. After all, not many of us would forsake the bright lights for more winters in Wasilla. Besides, with her… Read more »
What's new in Time, the Economist, and the American Spectator.
Wired, August 2009An article follows a handful of Silicon Valley execs from Google, Twitter, MeetUp, YouTube, and others on a tour of Baghdad led by U.S. State Department policy planner… Read more »
