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CAFTA promises to extend the harmful impacts of NAFTA to Mexico's weaker southern neighbors.

This past November, along with six other members of the US Congress, I visited Mexico on a Teamsters-sponsored trip in order to assess what NAFTA has done to Mexico.

On the tenth anniversary of the NAFTA accord, mainstream media accounts have voiced muted disappointment with its relatively meager effects.

With the stock market surging and the economy growing, George W. Bush has begun touting the success of his tax cuts.

This essay, from the June 10, 1961, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on the Kennedy Administration and/or the space race, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every Nation article since 1865.

The Democratic Party has come a long way from the "lockbox" economics of 2000.

After twenty-one tension-filled days of raucous speeches, poetry readings, threats, bribery and walkouts, Afghanistan's loya jirga, held to endorse a new Constitution for Afghanistan after

Our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality.

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The TANF program expires in March, and the American people need to know what it’s all about before it’s renewed.

February 8, 2013

The rest of the developed world has left us in the dust since we enacted the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993.

February 5, 2013

Before we’re forced to pick our flavor of austerity, we should close tax loopholes in the financial sector to raise much-needed revenue.

February 4, 2013

Concentrated poverty has largely been ignored by policymakers, despite the huge impact it has on student achievement.

February 1, 2013

The agreement is designed to resolve Walmart’s allegations that workers’ Black Friday protests were illegal.

January 31, 2013

President Obama laid out the right vision—what will the anti-poverty movement do to help get us there?

January 25, 2013

Eric on Jazz at Lincoln Center and Reed on reining in defense spending.

January 24, 2013

It makes no sense to suggest that a poor child could ever have “the same chance to succeed as anybody else.”

January 22, 2013

Accessing an abortion has increasingly become the province of the well to do.

January 22, 2013

An Anti-Poverty Contract for 2013 might help grow the movement.

January 18, 2013
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