Author and correspondent T.R. Reid discusses the possible real-world ramifications of the pending health care bill. Though the provisions in the bill would outlaw the most reprehensible practices of health...

Author T.R. Reid says that the problem with health care in America isn't the quality of the service, but the lack of availability to millions. Reid tells of a young...

Author T.R. Reid discusses health care in Massachusetts, where 98 percent of residents are covered but costs remain high. He believes the issue may benefit from a new leader aside...

Without successful financial regulatory reform, are we just waiting for the next economic meltdown? Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer examines whether the Obama administration is capable of reform, or...

In this special, author T.R. Reid takes the pulse of health care systems around the globe and writes a prescription for America based on his observations.

Does "too big to fail" mean too big? Without successful financial regulatory reform, are we just waiting for the next economic meltdown? Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer examines if...

Controversial libertarian law professor Richard Epstein discusses the ethical and financial quandary of costly end-of-life care. He argues that money commonly spent on those at or near their life expectancy...

(Global Pulse: September 4, 2009) What's in a kiss? Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad took part in one of the most analyzed kisses since Romeo and Juliet...

(Global Pulse: August 28, 2009) The U.S. health care debate is raging, and other developed countries are part of the argument -- though not always willingly. Everyone has a health...

Linguistics professor and author George Lakoff explains how Democrats in the U.S. are failing to sell health care reform by relying on the policy issues alone. Democrats, he says, are...

Michael Pollan discusses Michelle Obama's "really amazing speech" calling for reform of the U.S. food system with fellow author on food and urban farming, Novella Carpenter. Pollan says, "The way...

"Wall Street is the ultimate Darwinian petri dish," says "House of Cards" author William D. Cohan. "It's capitalism at its most ruthless, most fundamental." Cohan is not terribly optimistic that...

This episode shows a Day in the Life of Grand Ayatollah Youssef Sanei, a pro-reform Ayatollah and a former Iranian Attorney General, viewed as a holy man by Shia Muslims.

(Latin Pulse/Pulso Latino: March 17, 2009) President Obama courted Latino voters with immigration reform, but economic worries have taken priority above all else. Through news reports from Latin America and...

Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman (D-MA) and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, calls securitization the third major period of American economic history, and blames underregulation of securitized lending as...