In Oregon, activists are rejuvenating a campaign to win a health care system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.
Valeria Fernández, New America Media. March 23, 2012.
Undocumented immigrant women must travel to Mexico, where no prescription is required, or buy them from the underground market in Phoenix, without seeing a doctor first.
Both Arizona and Kansas are considering bills giving doctors the legal authority to withhold potentially crucial information about a woman's health, and in this case her child's.
James Gustave Speth, Orion Magazine. March 1, 2012.
The data is piling up to confirm that we’re Number One, but in exactly the way we don’t want to be—at the bottom. Where did we go wrong and what can we do about it?
ThinkProgress Staff, ThinkProgress. February 14, 2012.
Whether it’s birth control or other essential health services, Republicans are pushing a radical proposal that puts your boss between you and your doctor — and in your bedroom.
Free health care, a sanitation team, a public library, solar power, and free childcare are just a few of the services the Occupy Wall Street protesters are providing.
Yvonne Yen Liu, Colorlines.com. September 25, 2011.
Cutting Medicare and Medicaid are the new favorite solution for Democrats and Republicans--but actually, investing in those programs would do more for jobs.
Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and other Republican governors are handing over taxpayer dollars to private companies to provide health care--and make profits.
This Tuesday, six Republican state senators who supported Scott Walker's radical agenda face recall. Here's what you need to know about the issues at play.
Polls are favorable as progressives head into the recall elections of eight Wisconsin State Senate Republicans who supported Scott Walker's union-busting.
Wisconsin erupted in protest in February over an attempt to ban collective bargaining, but Gov. Scott Walker didn't stop there in his war on the people of his state.
Norway, where abortion is freely available, subsidized by the government, and apparently not stigmatized, was recently named "the world's best place to be a mother."
America's Right -- from the NFL lockout to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget to climate change -- side with the billionaires in what amounts to an escalating class war.
