Locked Up in Iran
An editorial published in the Washington Post while I was working for Physicians for Human Rights in Washington: Roxana Saberi’s detention and trial ["U.S. Journalist Held in Iran Faces Charges of Spying," news story, April 9] are a tragic example of human rights violations that have become the norm in Iran. In a similar case, the...
Dear iPhone, Where Did Our Love Go?
I don't blame myself for falling in love with the iPhone. It was inevitable, really.
Get your Stupak hands off my uterus
This healthcare battle is about policymakers and millions of Americans working feverishly to fix a cruel, outdated system that continues to devastate lives and end them prematurely. Tough political maneuvers involve compromise, and in this case Pelosi made a big one. You won't die if you don't get an abortion, but you will if you...
Needed: A public option you can believe in – robust or otherwise
Just when everyone seemed ready to put the public option on the funeral pyre, it looks like it was brought back to life, or at least a vegetative coma.
It’s true, Democrats in both houses want and need the entire party on board before they take their bills to the floor. But in crafting legislation, the...
get ur govt hands off my medicr, @barackobama
In the Twitterverse, as in the blogosphere, shorter wins. Populated by fewer characters, tiny urls, and abbreviated words, the Twitterverse operates on one law: less is more. Except when it comes to health coverage. When President Obama told Americans to offer up suggestions for healthcare reform, Twitterers obliged. Journalists, parents, doctors and wonks gathered under...