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A second recurring note is darker. Like many other populist movements in American history, Tea Parties have become magnets for conspiracy mongers and nativists. Nashville conventioneers roared their approval when former Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo blamed Obama's election on voters who can't speak English. Because "we do not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Despite the fact that the state has some of the strongest consumer-protection laws in the country, California's regulations governing the individual health insurance market are not very strict. Insurers are free to set whatever rates they want, so long as they spend 70% of premiums paying claims, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Insurance-Rate Jump in California: Will It Stick? | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

On Wednesday, however, a Haitian judge released eight of the missionaries, who according to their lawyers left the country by sunset. Two others - the group's leader, Laura Silsby, and her nanny and assistant, Charisa Coulter - remained behind bars for further investigation, but they may eventually be freed as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Marie de la Soudiere wants to make sure that folks like the missionaries don't get many more chances to even try it. As coordinator of the separated-children program in Haiti for UNICEF, the U.N. Children's Fund, de la Soudiere recently initiated a campaign to register Haitian youths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

That's understandable thinking in Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, where children are frequently given up by their destitute parents. Those kids are all too often funneled to more-affluent families who turn them into slaves, known in Creole as restaveks, or to outright traffickers who force them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNICEF Seeks to Keep Kids Out of Haiti Orphanages | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

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