Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky, a Nation contributing writer, is the author of several books, including, most recently, Inside Obama’s Brain, Breadline USA and American Furies. His next book, The American Way of Poverty, will be published by Nation Books in the fall.

Articles

The Moral Minimum (Politics)

As the lagging minimum wage is being turned into a moral issue instead
of an economic one, states are beginning to act where the federal
government has not.

Sasha Abramsky

Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero? (Bush's Lies, US Wars and Military Action, Politics)

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated a complaisant media and assailed the electorate for passively consuming government lies.

Sasha Abramsky

Reversing 'Right to Work' (Labor Organizing and Activism, Social Justice, States, Unions, Politics)

Labor activists in Idaho hope to repeal repressive "Right To Work" laws
and educate a new generation on the history of labor struggles.

Sasha Abramsky

Seeds of Abu Ghraib (Law, Jails and Prisons, US Wars and Military Action, Society)

Americans wondered how Army Specialist Charles Graner could torture
detainees in the gruesome Abu Ghraib scandal. In war, people do things
that would otherwise be unthinkable. But this former corrections
officer with a record of spousal abuse has always been at war.

Sasha Abramsky

Letters

PARDON ME, DO YOU SPEAK LIBERAL?

Bellingham, Wash.

Eric Alterman, Doug Henwood, Sasha Abramsky and Our Readers

Letters

OH GEORGE, POOR GEORGE...

Camarillo, Calif.

Your October 3 cover almost made me feel sorry for George W.
Bush. Now cut that out!

Sasha Abramsky, Our Readers and Lee Siegel

Running on Fumes (Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Rural Issues, Economy, Politics)

Unless the federal government does something now,
rising gas prices have the potential to break the blue-collar backbone
of many American towns.