Barack Obama’s re-election might make the landmark decision safe for now, but its meaning has eroded over the years.
Health and Social Policy
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Just What Workers Need: More Labor Civil War
A not-so-great battle in the world of organizing threatens to limit the effectiveness of the nation’s two biggest health-care unions.
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Science versus the Courts
What role should government play in how doctors administer treatment?
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It’s a Mad, Mad Michigan
Right-to-work legislation was only the beginning. State Republicans have an entire docket full of legislation set to limit rights.
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Getting Away with Wage Theft
The Supreme Court looks at a new case that could make or break class-action suits.
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Will the Contraception Mandate Survive Judicial Review?
Yesterday’s court order blocking the Obama administration’s ruling on health-care plans is by no means the end of the road.
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Nancy Pelosi, Same Job, Different Coalition
The House minority leader will stay on to head the diverse delegation she helped create.
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Arlen Specter: A Poor Man’s Richard Nixon
From Democrat to Republican to Democrat again, from his fierce opposition of Robert Bork to his cutthroat cross examination of Anita Hill, Specter was always, above all, a politician.
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Are Women Better Off Than We Were Four Years Ago: Take Two
Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition
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“One Thing I’ve Learned: We’re All Vulnerable.”
Looking at social policy the way real humans do: as a series of needlessly frustrating encounters with indifferent bureaucratic machinery.
