Among the vulnerable populations Friday’s automatic cuts affect, the mentally ill will be among the hardest hit.
Art Levine
Art Levine is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly and a former Health Policy Fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). He is the author of PPI's 2005 report, "Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System," and is currently working on a book on mental-health issues. He also blogs at The Huffington Post. Follow at ArtL7 on Twitter.
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Follow the Money
How shortsighted funding and reimbursement warps mental-health care in America
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The Republican War on Voting
Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans.
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Medifraud Amok
Heard about the company that resold the drugs that came back in the mail? That’s apparently just a normal day in the life of our under-regulated drug industry.
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Behind the FISA Flop
Why wasn’t there greater mobilization against the warrantless surveillance bill passed earlier this month? A look at what Congressional Democrats, advocacy groups, and the netroots were doing in the run-up to the bill’s passage.
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Electric Boogaloo
It’s good guys vs. good guys in the complicated legislative fight over regulating voting machines.
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Bad Reception, Part II
As the House International Relations Committee prepares to open hearings into the operations of the Bush administration’s new Arabic-language broadcasting program, accusations of mismanagement, cronyism, and gross waste are roiling Radio Sawa, Alhurra television, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), their nonprofit, government-funded parent corporation. Both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the State Department […]
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Bad Reception
While the Bush administration’s efforts to promote American democracy and oppose Islamic extremism abroad are often berated, its new Arabic-language radio and TV networks have found an appreciative audience in official Washington. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Senator Joseph Biden have praised Radio Sawa and the Alhurra television network, launched at a cost of […]
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Voice-Over America
The story of Kenneth Tomlinson’s efforts to impose his right-tilting version of “balance” on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has incited national controversy. But while that tale is well-known, Tomlinson’s malign influence on another respected media institution, the Voice of America (VOA), has received far less attention. What’s happened at the VOA — which […]
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Voice-Over America
The story of Kenneth Tomlinson’s efforts to impose his right-tilting version of “balance” on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has incited national controversy. But while that tale is well-known, Tomlinson’s malign influence on another respected media institution, the Voice of America (VOA), has received far less attention. What’s happened at the VOA — which […]