by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 24, 2007 | Blog
The rate at which infants are dying has begun to creep upward in several Southern states. This is an entirely predictable—and deadly—outcome of a systematic squeezing of federal and state health programs under conservative rule. The report in The New...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 24, 2007 | Blog
The rate at which infants are dying has begun to creep upward in several Southern states. This is an entirely predictable—and deadly—outcome of a systematic squeezing of federal and state health programs under conservative rule. The report in The New...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 12, 2007 | Blog
Why should you care about a spat over a near-bankrupt group of health care facilities outside Washington? As Alec Dubro points out in an article today on TomPaine.com, what's happening there is symptomatic of a larger national problem of health care for the poor and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 11, 2007 | Blog
Today on TomPaine.com I offer my take on the Don Imus controversy, as well as that of Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who writes on another critical aspect of the flap for AlterNet. Yes, it's well-worn ground, but there are a couple of points that I thought it was important to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 3, 2007 | Blog
A coalition of activists leading the opposition to the war in Iraq is refusing to give an inch to President Bush, who today unleashed more venom at Democrats for doing what a majority of voters want: a responsible withdrawal from Iraq. One member of that coalition,...