Obama Health Overhaul Plan Expected Monday

Health Care In Massachusetts: 'Abject Failure' Or...
President Obama's health care overhaul was largely based on one that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts in 2006. Now, more than 98 percent of state residents have health...

Federal Court Tosses Lawsuit Over Health Reform
It is the second appellate court ruling affirming the government's right to require individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. A federal appeals court in Cincinnati also upheld the...

Growers Nervous As Washington Eyes Farm Subsidies
Federal subsidies for farmers have been an essential element of the U.S. agricultural industry for decades. But as both political parties look for ways to cut the deficit, payments to growers...

Handel: Water Music Suites

The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath...