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The Health Care Crisis Hits Home

By KAREN TUMULTY / SAN ANTONIO

When my brother got sick and his insurers refused to pay, he needed help. After a dizzying, infuriating trip through the system, here's how we found it

The Afghanistan Problem: Can Obama Avoid a Quagmire?

By JOE KLEIN

Afghanistan and Pakistan are teetering on the brink. And Obama's margin for error is minuscule

What Lies Behind the Cuban Purge

By TIM PADGETT

Do high-level changes provide clues to how Raul Castro will be dealing with the Obama Administration?

Lostwatch: Flashing Back on That '70s Show

By JAMES PONIEWOZIK

So for the strandees, the flashes have stopped. For the rest of us, however, they are just (re)beginning.

Obama's Budget: Earmarks Aren't the Real Problem

By MICHAEL GRUNWALD

Earmarks are the grimy political grease that helps our spending motor run. The real problem is the motor

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Swampland

By Jay Newton-Small

After more than two years of frenetic political news: could we finally have come to a lull?

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Plundered Artifacts

Plundered art and antiquities constituted at least a $3 billion a year trade, much to the chagrin of nations struggling to reclaim their lost artifacts

Quotes of the Day

"Bet yourself a new hat or a fine dinner that you are going to have a scandal a month. They are running around like a lot of headless chickens."

JOHN DINGELL,
a U.S. Representative from Michigan, on problems encountered by the Food and Drug Administration

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Postcard from Paris: Cyclists Behaving Badly

By Bruce Crumley

The Vélib' program has revolutionized public transport in the French capital by making bicycles widely accessible. But many Parisians want to ride them on sidewalks

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