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Huckabee on Health

How about some details, Mike?

Candidate Mike Huckabee walked into the Oscar Frazier Community Center in Bluffton, South Carolina, the other day and charmed a... More

A Health Care Mirage

How candidates (and reporters) misuse the word “universal”

By now we all know that the Democratic candidates are fighting about whose plan is more universal. Their sparring in... More

Romney Talks Tough on Health Care

But what’s he really saying?

Mitt Romney is talking tough these days about health care and touts his Massachusetts plan as a national model. His... More

The New Health-Care Debate

1992 echoes loudly, but today’s story isn’t just back to the future

A 2005 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that twice as many people rely on the media for information... More

Rudy’s Unhealthy Stats

Some good reporting holds Giuliani’s phony cancer numbers at bay

The coverage of Rudy Giuliani’s epidemiological error about his chances of surviving prostate cancer in England wasn't perfect, but it... More

The Epidemic

That gee-whiz medical segment on your local TV news? It was produced and written by the very hospital it’s touting.

NOTE: This story has been corrected, as detailed in a note at the end of the piece When 19 thousand... More

Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism

“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”

‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’

Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?

The story behind one of the best business models in the country

What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas

“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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