[Reuters]
Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance. We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction...than drunk driving and homicide combined.

[Forbes]
North America's wealth has now fallen the most out of any other region in the world, allowing Europe to step up to the plate as the world's richest continent.

[The Huffington Post]
A new study by The New England Journal of Medicine finds that a majority of physicians support the creation of a public health care option.

[daggatt blog]
Why the lies?

[Rolling Stone]
How Washington is screwing up health care reform—and why it may take a revolt to fix it.

[BBC]
Israel's army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel's wars are "God's wars."

[Esquire]
In a sprawling discussion of his past and our common future, former President Bill Clinton compares his administration's early years with Obama's and talks about what he believes—in health care and next year's midterms—is about to happen.

[The White House]
Prepared remarks of President Barack Obama's Back-to-School speech.

[Breitbart]
President Barack Obama says his administration will make public a listing of visitors to the White House, reversing a long-standing policy transcending presidents and party affiliations.

[MediaMatters]
If there is anybody out there who still doesn't believe that the conservative media will attack President Obama no matter what he does, consider this: Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.

[Reuters]
The biggest U.S. internet service providers urged regulators to adopt a conservative definition of "broadband," arguing for minimum speeds that were substantially below many other nations.