Headache and Indigestion -- Caused by Your Bra?

Rosie Johnston, The Independent UK

Health and Wellness: Bras aren't just about looks; a poor fit can cause health problems.

Fat: What the Experts Don't Know About Obesity

Maggie Mahar, Health Beat

Health and Wellness: A recent documentary shows how fat prejudice is keeping even some doctors from understanding obesity.

Efficiency Is Our Best Untapped Energy Source

Carole Bass, Yale Environment 360

Environment: The world's biggest untapped energy source, according to energy expert Amory Lovins, is efficiency. But don't call it "conservation."

A New Approach to Drugs Would Save New York Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Gabriel Sayegh, AlterNet

DrugReporter: Let’s stop spending over $500 million every year on ineffective and wasteful policies like the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Untold Story of Election 2008: The Death of the NRA

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: Among the big losers in November were the NRA and the myth of the once-feared "NRA Voter." Reform of our gun laws is on the way.

Why It Can Take a Year to Get a Mammogram in the U.S.

Abby Christopher, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: More radiologists are shying away from breast imaging, creating longer waits that may be leading women to put off or forgo screenings.

Forget the Polar Bears -- The Climate Crisis Is About All of Us

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com

Environment: Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the planet collapse?

How Kids Learn to Love Capitalism

Bill Reagan, PopMatters

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: There is no better illustration of capitalism in all its glory than the vicious games of the playground.

Is Mumbai India's 9/11? It's Not That Simple

Lakshmi Chaudhry, TheNation.com

We may recoil at the 9/11 narrative, but for many in India, it is a call to the world to recognize their loss.

The Hymen Mystique

Carole Roye, Women's eNews

Reproductive Justice and Gender: The hymen is the stuff of legend and lore, and surgical attempts to "restore" it show how little anyone really knows about this body part.

Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group

Health and Wellness: Look only to the Detroit automakers' current economic straits to understand why.

Are Key Obama Advisors in Tune with Neocon Hawks Who Want to Attack Iran?

Robert Dreyfuss, Tomdispatch.com

ForeignPolicy: Think an attack is unlikely now? Ask key Obama cabinet figures why they're still palling around with neocon hardliners on Iran.

9 Ways to Halt the Right Wing Culture Wars and Bring Sanity to Sexual Policy

David Rosen, CounterPunch

Sex and Relationships: We have a unique opportunity to overturn the perverse agenda of the Religious Right.

Mormon Homophobia: Up Close and Personal

Sheldon Rampton, Center for Media and Democracy

Rights and Liberties: An ex-Mormon explains how a church with mostly good values can promote hatred and intolerance.

The Election of Obama and the White Supremacist Threat

Davin Hutchins, American News Project

Video: It's the taboo subject you're not supposed to talk about -- Barack Obama's safety in light of the rise of white supremacists in America.

Immigration Reform After Bush: Let's Put an End to Punitive Policies

Roberto Lovato, New America Media

Immigration: Recent talk about immigration issues coming from Washington inspires some hope, some fear and reveals the need for clarity on the issue.

10 Ways the Corporate Media Tried to Make You Think Obama Was a Liberal

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake

PEEK: Cherrypicking information, ignoring facts, generating fake outrage -- the media did their best to create a caricature of Obama.

SNL's Amy Poehler: Smart Girls Have More Fun

Marianne Schnall, Huffington Post

Reproductive Justice and Gender: SNL star Amy Poehler talks about her new online TV series, Smart Girls at the Party.

Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum Out of Our Farms

Vandana Shiva, South End Press

Environment: Biodiverse farms offer us more food, better food, higher incomes for farmers and a defense from climate disasters.

Is the Latest Eco-Term Just Corporate Hype?

Jeff Conant, AlterNet

Water: The idea that Coca Cola can be environmentally accountable for the water it uses -- 'water neutral' -- has many skeptics.

Going to College & Grad School Looks Like a Disaster

Nan Mooney, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Thinking about going back to school in a weak jobs market? Students face a plague of loan problems, less aid and higher tuition and fees.

Clues Obama Won't Govern Center-Right

Robert Creamer, Blog for Our Future

Election 2008: Have progressives been suckered into supporting a President who will really govern from the 'center-right'? The short answer is no.

What Does Barack Know About Peak Oil?

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com

The economy may go back up, but the decline in oil production can't be stopped. Does the president-elect know this?

Cops Get Their Kicks, Tasering

Digby, Hullabaloo

PEEK: The police have no right to shoot people with electricity for having a "bad attitude."

Why Robert Gates is a Terrible Pick

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

War on Iraq: The appointment of Robert Gates -- a vocal critic of Obama's Iraq withdrawal plan who will undoubtedly shape policy-- is alarming.

The Many Ways Our Future is a Mess

Michael T. Klare, The Nation

Environment: Even the government is now warning the US will face a world of greater dangers, more challengers and a paucity of reliable allies.

Let's Hope India Doesn't React Like We Did to 9/11

Juan Cole, Outlook India

The choices India makes now about the threat of terrorism will help determine what kind of superpower it will be.

Hillary Clinton's Disdain for International Law -- Change We Can Believe In?

Stephen Zunes, AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: Hillary Clinton is our new Secretary of State -- will she continue the United States' hypocrisy on human rights and the rule of law?

Health Care: It's Time for a Major Overhaul

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A huge coalition of progressive and union forces is gearing up for political battle on the health care front.

Mumbai Attacks: Piecing Together the Story

AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: There's a lot more to the India attacks than CNN and the New York Times have been reporting. Here's an alternative guide to the story.

Right-Wingers and Neocons Love Obama's Cabinet Appointments

Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet

PEEK: A collection of praise for Obama's White House team from Karl Rove, David Brooks, Henry Kissinger and more.

Why It's Not OK for Palin to 'Drill Baby, Drill'

Silja J.A. Talvi, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Environment: Dr. Riki Ott has a special response to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's heavy push for oil drilling in the Arctic.

Uncovering the Final Secrets of the Bush Administration

Charles Homans, Washington Monthly

Rights and Liberties: Treat Cheney's offices like a crime scene, create a 9/12 Commission, and declassify the Bush papers -- the public deserves to know.

Republicans Just Can't Stop Picking Partisan Fights

Digby, Hullabaloo

PEEK: Just in case anyone thinks the spirit of bipartisanship has overtaken Congress in light of the severe financial crisis, think again.

Why the NFL Should Be More Like NASCAR

Sameer Pandya, Miller-McCune.com

In a manifesto for sports fans, two professors call for more merit and less monopoly.

After Seven Years, Guantánamo Prisoners Need to be Tried or Released

Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research

Rights and Liberties: Judge: "Seven years of waiting for a legal system to give them an answer ... is more than enough."