Electronic Pen

John Nichols There's no need to promote compromises in the healthcare reform debate.

• Christopher Hayes: Progressives Must Mobilize
• Leslie Savan: Race, Lies and Health Scares

Katrina vanden Heuvel Rising GOP star Rep. Paul Ryan's health plan offers only more of the same: a whole lot of talking points that mask cruel outcomes for millions of people.

Marc Cooper California might be suffering its worst drought in decades, but the entire Golden State is underwater.

• Our Tattered State Safety Net
• Terminator Timeline
• California Budget Blues

Leslie Savan Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair.

• Video: Fear of a Black President

Frederika Randall Silvio Berlusconi's latest sexual escapade is the talk of Italy, and now the world. Maybe we should be paying closer attention to evidence of far more sinister hookups.

Gary Younge Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest most certainly was a "teachable moment" in the racial conversation--but we've learned nothing.

• Eric Alterman: Class, Not 'Race'