Positive Universe Abstracts

New York Times

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Opponents of health care reform periodically argue that legislation is unnecessary because anybody can get medical assistance through the emergency room — or that those who get in trouble have only themselves for blame by not buying insurance. My Sunday column tells the story of John Brodniak, a young man who [...]

Washington Post

Major provisions would take effect in 2014; enforcement in doubt

By David S. Hilzenrath, Washington Post Staff Writer

The White House has a message for Americans suffering under today’s health insurance system: “Help is on the way.”

Either way, a small effect

But not as fast as you might think.

Measured against the promises President Obama and congressional Democrats [...]

guardian.co.uk

The new chief of Greenpeace on his plans to make the organisation more populist, the power of direct action and why he thinks a deal can still be struck at Copenhagen

Stephen Moss

When Kumi Naidoo, the South African-born human rights activist, was contacted in February by a recruitment company that wanted to know whether he would [...]

New York Magazine

How the president finds his way out of the woods.

By John Heilemann

The Thursday before last, President Barack Obama came home from his eight-day trip to Asia and received a welcome even frostier than the subfreezing temperatures that had greeted him in Beijing. In the House of Representatives, the populist Democrat Peter DeFazio of [...]

Falls Church News Press

By Nicholas F. Benton

Just how far are the puppet masters pulling the strings of the Tea Party and related right wing radicals willing to go?

Frankly, this is a very troubling question that more and more rational people are beginning to ask as unemployment numbers officially break ten percent (more like 17 percent, [...]