News in Brief What Barriers Stand in Your Way to the Polls? The methods are far less conspicuous than fire hoses and more legally ambiguous than poll taxes and literacy tests. David Rosenfeld
News in Brief Faulty Machines Ready to Count Your Vote Based on scientific research, we have a clearer picture of just how vulnerable our American voting system really is. David Rosenfeld
Social Justice A Prognosis on Mandates and Guarantees "Experiments" in eight states provide pointers on how America might provide guaranteed health insurance. David Rosenfeld
Economics Software Helps Insurers Profit from Denials New York's attorney general investigates possible fraud in an industry built on denying care, and two U.S. representatives want Medicare to have no part in it. David Rosenfeld