Warning Signs from Europe
The health plan wonderland of middle Europe has some issues of its own that Americans might factor into their own debate.
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Nazis and Health Care
Some opponents of the president's health care efforts liken it to totalitarian states. But what was health care policy like under, say, the Nazis?
How Monolithic is Your Health Care System?
Hot on socialized medicine or cool with private payer, take the temperature of your favorite U.S. health care option with our handy-dandy Miller-McCune meter.
Joschka Fischer, A Long Strange Political Trip
As an anti-party's pre-eminent politician, Joschka Fischer took Germany's Greens out of the wilderness and into real power. But has he become what he once eschewed?
Nuclear Power? Ja, Maybe
Germany's upcoming election has put an unforgiving light on the nuclear phase-out promised in 2001.
Not Recycling, and Proud of It
America's still-undecided policy on nuclear waste means the spent rods just keep a-piling up.
Salting it Away (and Other Problems with Nuclear Waste)
Germany's vaunted salt mine solution for low-level nuclear waste has proven to be full of holes.
Liquefied Manure’s Thomas Paine May Be German
Biomass-powered villages in Germany's heartland may offer a model for U.S. towns questing for energy self-sufficiency.