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Abroad at HomeJonathan Cohn
In Iraq, Abu Ghraib is an outrage. In Texas, it'd be a typical prison

Ann Harbor DiaristJonathan Cohn
Caree Fair

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Auto DestructJonathan Cohn
The tragic nobility of Detroit

Brasilia DiaristJonathan Cohn
Sexual Healing

Cambridge Dispatch: Left BackJonathan Cohn
The anti-war movement stirs

CarelessJonathan Cohn
Is the new Medicare law designed to expand health insurance---or to privatize it? Newt ...


CheckupsJonathan Cohn
The Democratic presidential candidates' competing health care plans all take pains to a...



Cosmetic SurgeryJonathan Cohn
The problem with our health care system isn't that we manage care---it's that the peopl...

Crash CourseJonathan Cohn
Conservatives want to give consumers more control over their health care, which is grea...



Divided the StandsJonathan S. Cohn
How skyboxes brought snob appeal to sports.

Dr. FeelgoodJonathan Cohn

Dr. FeelgoodJonathan Cohn
In surgeon-turned-majority leader Bill Frist, the Republicans finally have a spokesman ...

Fade to BlackJonathan Cohn

Follow ThroughJonathan S. Cohn


Gender BenderJonathan Cohn
Forget Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole. The new face of women in politics is Michiga...

Going LongJonathan Cohn
Behind the convention's unity, Howard Dean and his fellow liberals are hatching a long-...

The Golden TicketJonathan Cohn
One Ninth Ward family was given the extraordinary chance to live a middle-class life in...

Good DoctorJonathan Cohn
Dean isn't running as a hard lefty. He's running as an angry, honest New Democrat. Whic...

Goodbye SunshineJonathan Cohn
Two years ago, a compassionate conservative named Bush vowed he could modestly increase...


Great DanesJonathan Cohn
We have seen the shiny future of U.S. liberalism. It's called Denmark

Hard LaborJonathan Cohn
In two years as president of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney has managed to save the labor mo...

Health ScareJonathan Cohn
Health care costs are going through the roof. Sound like what happened in the early 199...

Ill TreatmentJonathan Cohn
Los Angeles needs Washington's help to avoid a public health crisis. Too bad the Bush a...

InsidersJonathan Cohn
The reinvention of Obama's geek squad

Invisible ManJonathan Cohn
Vermont Governor Howard Dean could be the Democrats' John McCain---the presidential ins...

Irrational ExuberanceJonathan Cohn
Mathematically oriented "rational choice" scholars have staked a claim to preeminence i...


The JungleJonathan Cohn
With its flexible hours and employee-owners, Amazon.com was a worker's paradise. Then ...

Los Angelees DiaristJonathan Cohn
Beans for Life


Lower Take All?Jonathan Cohn
The moral case for obstructionism

Appraising Three Clinton Programs
Making College PossibleJonathan Cohn

The MallJonathan Cohn
The left's overeager health care reformers

The MallJonathan Cohn
The Democrats' secret health care plan

The MallJonathan Cohn
President Obama, ignore this bailout

The MallJonathan Cohn
The HMO is back. Shhh!

The MallJonathan Cohn
Client X reveals the secret truth about health care reform

The MallJonathan Cohn
Obama's sop to health care 'fraidy cats

The MallJonathan Cohn
The bean counters who could kill health care reform

The MallJonathan Cohn
Inside the Obamacare laboratory

The MallJonathan Cohn
Life after the public option

The MallJonathan Cohn
How Big Pharma extorted the White House

The MallJonathan Cohn
No, we can't all get along on health care

The MallJonathan Cohn
My Facebook friend and the liberal dilemma

A Man's PlaceJonathan Cohn
What a controversial custody dispute tells us about families, fathers, and the true mea...

Missed TargetJonathan COhn
Virtually everything Bush says about Kerry's health care plan is wrong

Moral CenterJonathan Cohn
The case for Howard Dean

Moral MinorityJonathan Cohn
Before conservatives get too excited about Tommy Thompson as secretary of health and hu...

More Radical Than BushJonathan Cohn
The full horror of John McCain's economic agenda

The MulliganJonathan Cohn
Getting HillaryCare right. Finally


Old TricksJonathan Cohn
On education, poverty, and taxes, Bush has talked left and governed right. On Medicare,...

On the Hill: Mangling CareJonathan Cohn
Republicans say they really, really want to protect you from profit-obsessed HMOs. Befo...

The OperatorJonathan Cohn
Why is the most powerful health care lobbyist playing nice?

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Panin in DetroitJonathan Cohn
This is not your father's Oldsmobile we're rescuing

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Parent TrapJonathan Cohn
Mitt Romney learned everything he knew about politics from his father. Now, he's unlear...



Private LessonJonathan Cohn
Nancy Pelosi's first order of business

Roll Out the BarrelJonathan Cohn
The opponents of pork-barrel spending are at it again---this time decrying the fat new ...

Second OpinionJonathan Cohn
W.'s Medicare plan has a flaw: It's already failed

Sick (2007)Jonathan Cohn
The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---And the People Who Pay the...
2 Reviews, 1 Readable

SickJonathan Cohn
Beth Israel was a great hospital---a national model of how to train doctors and nurses ...

Southfield Dispatch: Majority RetortJonathan Cohn
Most Iraqi Americans are worried about the war. But then, most Iraqi Americans aren't w...

Spend a LittleJonathan Cohn
Al Gore says Bill Bradley's health care plan is expensive and inefficient. He's exactly...

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Stayin' AliveJonathan Cohn
The inside story of health care reform's near-death experience

StorylinesJonathan Cohn
Perrier in the Newsroom

StorylinesJonathan Cohn
Should Journalists Do Community Service?

StorylinesJonathan Cohn
The Fleece Police
The American Prospect, May 1996, pp. 12-15

StorylinesJonathan Cohn
Scandals for Dummies
The American Prospect, May 1997, pp. 17-19

Student Loans: The Wrong CutsJonathan Cohn
With this vital program, Republicans appear to prefer a wasteful monopoly to effective ...

Taking OffenseJonathan Cohn
Why don't mainstream campaign finance reformers get anywhere? Maybe because they're too...

Tax EvasionJonathan Cohn
The media is so busy saying that Howard Dean's proposal to repeal Bush's middle-class t...

This Won't Hurt a BitJonathan Cohn
Health care reform for dummies

ToxicJonathan Cohn
Guess who's in charge of lead safety?

Cover Story
Trailer TrashJonathan Cohn
Why Bush's plan to house Katrina evacuees stinks

TRB: A Little TrimJonathan Cohn
Not all Republicans are corporate shills who grab from the poor at every turn. Then the...

TRB: Body PoliticsJonathan Cohn
The case for the Twinkie tax

TRB: Going to the MattJonathan Cohn
If the press is so liberal, why does it insist on protecting Karl Rove?

TRB: Grover CorneredJonathan Cohn
How Big Labor gave the Gingrichites a taste of their own medicine in California

TRB: Health InspectionJonathan Cohn
Wal-Mart is not responsible for its employee's lousy medical coverage---the Republicans...

TRB: Hey, Big SpenderJonathan Cohn
Democrats are hardly fiscally reckless these days. So why are they still perceived that...

TRB: Kill PhilJonathan Cohn
The filibust lets Democrats win political battles while skirting the culture wars---whi...

TRB: Live a LittleJonathan Cohn
Health care costs are going up again. Is that really such a bad thing?

TRB: Losing HopeJonathan Cohn
Grants under the Hope VI program are bringing poor families out of the projects and int...

TRB: Managed CarelessJonathan Cohn
The return of Harry and Louise

TRB: Martial FlawJonathan Cohn
Republicans despise Cindy Sheehan because she undermines one of their dirtiest rhetoric...

TRB: Morning-After SicknessJonathan Cohn
Conservatives have long portrayed liberals as abortion extremists. Their stance on Plan...

TRB: Pick and LoseJonathan Cohn
Republican use the word "choice" like it's a good thing

TRB: Profit MotivesJonathan Cohn
Republicans play the race card on Social Security

TRB: Protection RacketJonathan Cohn
The latest Republican plan to gut health care insurance for those who truly need it

TRB: Shrug CoverageJonathan Cohn
The Bushies say glitches in the Medicare prescription-drug benefit were inevitable. So ...

TRB: Snuff FilmJonathan Cohn
If you think Dr. Kevorkian is a selfless crusader on a mission of mercy, then you don't...

TRB: Tax AlternativeJonathan Cohn
Last week, Alan Greenspan told Congress that the massive deficits he helped create coul...

TRB: UnresignedJonathan Cohn
Since when do we ask discredited presidents to step down?

TRB: Who Cares?Jonathan Cohn
Republicans say they would love to help all the needy parents with child care, just so ...

Trial and ErrorJonathan Cohn
Trial lawyers aren't to blame for America's health care crisis---no matter what the Bus...

True ColorsJonathan Cohn
George W. may not be a right winter like Tom DeLay, but that doesn't mean he's ideologi...




What Really Ails MedicareJonathan Cohn
The American Prospect, May 2008, pp. 11-14

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