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 Robert Reich, Op-Ed: But the requirement to cover pre-existing conditions has proven to be so popular with the public that Congress will be reluctant to scrap it. This opens the way to a political bargain. Insurers might be let off the hook, for example, only if they support allowing every American, including those with pre-existing conditions, to choose Medicare, or something very much like Medicare. In effect, what was known during the debate over the bill as the "public option." |
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 Anthony Gucciardi, News Analysis: The case was dismissed and Gloeckner, the farmer who launched the suit, was left thousands of euros in debt. And that's not all; Gloeckner continued to lose many cows as a result of Syngenta's modified Bt corn. After halting the use of GM feed in 2002, Gloeckner attempted a full investigation with the Robert Koch Institute and Syngenta involved. |
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 Mark Engler, Op-Ed: For such grave sins as spending too much time with the poor, the Vatican has put a bishop (needless to say, a man) in charge of restructuring the nuns' conference, picking through its handbooks, and approving any speakers it has at its public events—a process scheduled to take up to five years. In short, the Vatican has made a parody of itself, pulling out its most retrograde positions and doubling down on them. |
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 Travis Waldron, News Report: DREAM-eligible youth could also help fill the 16 million shortfall of college-educated workers that is expected to hit the U.S. by 2025, and with 31.5 percent of science and engineering graduates coming from Latino backgrounds, Obama's decision could add 252,000 new scientists, engineers, and technical workers to the nation's dwindling supply in those fields. |
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 Robert Scheer, Truthdig Op-Ed: The GAO list includes Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, who was on the N.Y. Fed board from 2006 to 2011, a period during which the Fed refused to even consider a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures or any other serious effort to help homeowners survive the mortgage crisis the banks had created. One of those banks is GE Capital, which was started by GE and was a major contributor to the banking disaster. |
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![]( "Was Andrew Cuomo's NY Fracking") Steve Horn, News Analysis: "We were clear that we were neither specifically endorsing any of these alternatives nor were we presupposing that any level of development should be approved – simply that the state cannot fully evaluate fracking here without an in-depth analysis of any and all scenarios that could take place here." Sinding added: "We regret that these comments have created concern and confusion. |
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 Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Video Report: Jesse Jackson Jr. introduced The Catching Up to 1968 Act of 2012. It draws its name from the idea that the federal minimum wage would be $10.55 an hour now if it had kept up with inflation over the past 40 years. While the bill has about 20 co-sponsors so far President Obama has yet to endorse it. We speak to longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. |
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 Suzanne Merkelson, Infographic: You often hear that our political system is awash in money, but what does that mean in real terms? Members of Congress do not get to office by votes alone—it also takes a whole lot of cash. The loads of money needed to get into Congress keeps our representatives busy raising funds and distracts them from governing. How can our government be of the people when it is dependent on the contributions of the wealthy few? |
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 Alexander Cockburn, Op-Ed: There are continued protests about New York City's racist application of an already essentially racist law. Last week the New York Civil Liberties Union unveiled "Stop and Frisk Watch" — a free and innovative smartphone application that will enable New Yorkers to monitor police activity and hold the New York Police Department accountable for unlawful stop-and-frisk encounters and other police misconduct. |
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 Marian Wang, News Report: The grief was relentless; the debt collectors, ruthless. By law, debt collectors must go through a debtor's attorney if one has been hired, but even after Reynoso hired an attorney, he said they continued to call him every day, several times a day, for about a year and a half: "I would tell them to call the lawyer. And they would still say, 'The lawyer doesn't owe us. You're the one who owes us. You're the one who has to pay us.' |
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![]( "March of Millions Demands") Anna Derinova, Op-Ed: The situation looked ominous until hundreds of people with flags, banners and placards began flowing through the center of the city, from Pushkin Square to Akademika Sakharova Avenue — named after the famed Russian Nobel laureate and Cold War dissident Andrei Sakharov. Within 50 minutes, 10,000 to 20,000 participants were reportedly on the streets. |
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 Aaron Mehta, News Report: The program has had a series of operational troubles, the IG report reveals. For example, the drones have required an hour of maintenance for every hour they fly, significantly increasing their expense. Additionally, inspectors found that the drones were often grounded by bad weather. As a result, in 2011 the drones logged only half the air time expected. |
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 Nouriel Roubini, Op-Ed: In the east, China, its growth model unsustainable, could be underwater by 2013, as its investment bust continues and reforms intended to boost consumption are too little too late. A new Chinese leadership must accelerate structural reforms to reduce national savings and increase consumption's share of GDP; but divisions within the leadership about the pace of reform, together with the likelihood of a bumpy political transition, suggest that reform will occur at a pace that simply is not fast enough. |
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 Valeria Fernández, News Report: Legal observers and immigrant rights activists agree that the justices are more likely to reinstate the "Papers, Please" portion of SB 1070 that would make it mandatory for local law enforcement to inquire about a person's immigration status and detain him or her indefinitely to get the answer. One of the fundamental questions now is, if this portion of the law goes into effect, how will Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) respond when contacted by local law enforcement? |
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