President Obama revealed his health care plan this week, and activists across the country are gearing up to push to actually pass health care reform. In this video from Ramblin' Man Films, we check in with protesters in Los Angeles outside of Anthem Blue Cross's office, angered by a 39% rate hike by the insurer.

What could be done with $20 billion? A whole lot of Wall Street bankers are about to find out. $20 billion's what the New York Comptroller's office says the Street's bonuses bounced back to in 2009 -- up 17 percent from the year of the crash.

The Olympics have seen more than their share of controversy this year, from the death of a Georgian luger early on to the ongoing debate about policing, spending and co-opting Native land for sports. But many people still love the games, and tune in to watch sports that get forgotten the other three years--or to see dream teams put together to compete for gold.

Imran Malik was a third-year medical student in Pakistan in 2005 when the earthquake hit. He says he "didn't even think," just jumped in a cab and went to help. It didn't take him much more thought to decide to go to Haiti to help after last month's quake; he's just returned from his trip down there providing medical aid.

In a recent article for ColorLines, Seth Wessler reported on one woman's struggle to support her family when cash benefits from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program--the one that replaced welfare under Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform--run out. "Selling Food Stamps For Kids' Shoes" was the title of the article, and it creates a stark picture of the impossible choices more and more families are forced to make in the continuing recession.

Dean Baker has some words for Democrats and Republicans alike who want to focus on "fiscal responsibility" while millions of Americans still struggle for jobs: they're heading "180 degrees the wrong way."

At last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the tea party ruled. “Saving freedom” was the theme of the conference, and the tea party mojo -- screeds against imagined socialist policies and the supposed tyranny of liberalism -- effortlessly overran old school small government conservatism to solidify the tea party’s position as the movement’s reigning force.

From our friends at Tactical Technology Collective, this second video in the series shows how ordinary citizens from around the world used basic video technology to record events and corrupt actions and effect change.

Two Greenpeace activists in Tokyo, Japan, are standing trial for exposing a corruption scandal in the whaling industry. Their court case is starting in Aomori, Japan, but the United Nations Human Rights Council and many other activists, including Amnesty International, have expressed concern for the way they have been treated. Watch the videoand take action!

Joseph Stack -- remember him? He's the guy who crashed his plane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin last week. Fifty-three years old, a Vietnam veteran, Stack killed one IRS manager, Vernon Hunter, and wounded 13 more before killing himself, but you'd be forgiven for forgetting his name, because he largely fell out of the news in the days afterward...