Nation Topics - Miner | The Nation

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

In The Ask, Sam Lipsyte never ventures beyond the comfort zone of his eloquently damaged protagonist.

The Secretary of Labor has hired a crew of smart and savvy deputies to enforce the nation's labor laws.

The AFL-CIO's new president warns that members of the academy should make common cause with the justifiable anger among working people.

The multinational mining giant Rio Tinto has uprooted unions, slashed wages and abused employees all over the world. Now workers at its California facility are fighting a lockout.

Appalachian activists are gaining ground in a campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining.

The movement that elected Evo Morales--and that pressures him now--has deep roots.

ACROSS

1  Putting those little lighters in packages? No, these are the type associated with a ring. (6,7)

Sixty years before Leona Helmsley, J.P. Morgan says that only the little people have to pay taxes.

Folklorist Archie Green blows the dust off old coal-mining songs, revealing the souls of long-dead miners and their struggles to survive.