Bush Labor Department Hurries to Change Toxic Substance Rules Before Obama Takes Office Bush Labor Department Hurries to Change Toxic Substance Rules Before Obama Takes Office
White House duck vs. the coal-mine canary.
Dec 2, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Can you help “Nickie”? Can you help “Nickie”?
In the endless debate over abortion, we can forget the concrete reality in which pregnant girls and women so often live. Feminists for Life and other anti-choice groups make it so...
Dec 2, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
‘Lost as Food and Won as a Coast’ ‘Lost as Food and Won as a Coast’
Is a new, computer-generated poetry anthology as intriguing--and boring--as the lifework of any fairly prolific poet?
Dec 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Grijalva for Interior Secretary Grijalva for Interior Secretary
Now that President-elect Barack Obama has put together his administration's economic, foreign-policy and national-security teams, the transition process comes to the interesting p...
Dec 2, 2008 / John Nichols
Puzzle No. 3149 Puzzle No. 3149
ACROSS
1 Until you run out of rope, far from a sweet beginning. (2,3,6,3)
Dec 2, 2008 / Frank W. Lewis
DC to Delhi: Only Our Missiles — Not Yours DC to Delhi: Only Our Missiles — Not Yours
Condoleezza Rice is off to India this week, to "stand in solidarity with the Indian people " in the wake of the Mumbai attacks. The Bush administration says it shares th...
Dec 2, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Beyond the Bailout State Beyond the Bailout State
If original thinking doesn't find a home among the Obama administration's Clinton-era Brainiacs, how can we move beyond the bailout state?
Dec 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
FDR Mania FDR Mania
If you want to catch something of the fears and hopes of Americans right now, go to News.Google.com and try searching for a few words. For instance, put in "FDR" -- the ...
Dec 1, 2008 / TomDispatch
Rethinking the Canadian Exit Strategy Rethinking the Canadian Exit Strategy
For years, disenchanted US progressives figured they could always move to Canada. But Canadians, stuck with a conservative government, may now be eyeing America.
Dec 1, 2008 / Feature / Will Di Novi
World AIDS Day World AIDS Day
Despite the dramatic costs that the AIDS virus is still exacting, many people have the mistaken impression that the epidemic has been virtually conquered in the US and is now just...
Dec 1, 2008 / Peter Rothberg