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Last week, new guidelines for breast cancer screening inspired a panic. Will we ever be able to discuss effective health care reasonably?

How federal agencies learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0.

Stoner jokes aside, the debate over America’s drug policy is sounding increasingly sane.

Top U.S. military officials are starting to sound like human-rights advocates when it comes to detention policy in Afghanistan.

Can we learn to fight from our staid northern neighbors?

Do the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey say anything about the Democratic Party’s future?

His staid reaction to the financial crisis may have won him the presidency, but too much complacency could cause him to lose it.

There is much to fear in the right’s comfort with radicalism, but little to envy.

As the Gulf Coast struggles to redevelop, its children build a thriving food-justice movement. Nutrition advocates in Washington would be wise to pay attention.

In the health-care reform debate, the insurance lobby is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.