Burger King as Scrooge Burger King as Scrooge
Farm workers who toil to pick tomatoes for Burger King's sandwiches earn 40 to 50 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they pick, a rate that has not risen significantly in...
Dec 18, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
A Political Fight Brews Over FCC Rule Changes A Political Fight Brews Over FCC Rule Changes
No matter what the Federal Communications Commission does today with regard to media ownership -- and it is likely to do the wrong thing -- members of Congress are ready to push b...
Dec 18, 2007 / John Nichols
New Jersey Leads on Capital Punishment New Jersey Leads on Capital Punishment
Today Governor Jon Corzine signed into law a bill that ends capital punishment in New Jersey. "This is a day of progress for us and for the millions of people across our nation an...
Dec 18, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Secret Library of Hope The Secret Library of Hope
Twelve authors on war and peace, dissent, the environment and the empowerment of the poor provide inspiration to transform the world in 2008.
Dec 17, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Solnit
Christmas for Big Media Christmas for Big Media
In less than 24 hours, Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin plans to hold a vote on rules that will let the largest media companies swallow up more local newspa...
Dec 17, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Iowa Caucus Ruckus Iowa Caucus Ruckus
The debate over whether students should vote in Iowa is nothing new.
Dec 17, 2007 / The Nation
No Taxes for War No Taxes for War
More and more Americans are fed up with watching their tax dollars support the greatest foreign policy disaster of our time. Over the past year, millions of US citizens have voted...
Dec 16, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Life After The Surge Life After The Surge
Is the Department of Veterans Affairs finally turning a corner or is the worst yet to come? From Walter Reed to false diagnoses of personality disorder, a Department that was nev...
Dec 14, 2007 / The Nation
The Mitchell Report Is a Fraud The Mitchell Report Is a Fraud
George Mitchell's long-awaited report on steroids in baseball slanders players, gives owners a pass and never acknowledges its author's conflicts of interest.
Dec 14, 2007 / Column / Dave Zirin
Like Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Lobby Never Goes Away Like Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Lobby Never Goes Away
Recently I wrote about the grassroots fight to keep billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the nuclear industry off of the historic Energy Bill (and also here ). So far, t...
Dec 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel