CPSC Not Protecting Children’s Safety CPSC Not Protecting Children’s Safety
Thirteen million toys have been recalled in the last two months due to unsafe levels of lead. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) -- the watchdog agency charged with pro...
Oct 31, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
All Trick, No Treat! All Trick, No Treat!
Will spec factory jobs be the next stage in US economic development?
Oct 31, 2007 / Annabelle Gurwitch
Fight GOP Tricks with Courage Fight GOP Tricks with Courage
Thanks to Nation writer and Occidental College professor Peter Dreier for tipping me off to the following item with which California Nation readers are likely already familiar. ...
Oct 31, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Eh, No Big Deal: Reports Show Still No Plan To Rebuild Iraq Eh, No Big Deal: Reports Show Still No Plan To Rebuild Iraq
With President Bush's original goal of establishing "a beacon of liberty in the Middle East" no longer operative, what, exactly, is the administration's goal for Iraq? An indepen...
Oct 31, 2007 / The Nation
No Treats for FCC Chair and Media Monopolists No Treats for FCC Chair and Media Monopolists
Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin is doing everything he can to prevent public input that would challenge his rush to have the commission radically rewrite medi...
Oct 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Immunity Watch: Senate Considers Illegal Spying Immunity Watch: Senate Considers Illegal Spying
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on President Bush's spying bill, which could validate warrantless domestic surveillance, immunize potential crimes by teleco...
Oct 31, 2007 / Ari Melber
Alaska Warms to The Nation Alaska Warms to The Nation
In this cut from Blue Man/Red State,a documentary on Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, Juneau peace activists give Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel a warm welcome and a help...
Oct 31, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Memphis Is Also America Memphis Is Also America
The civil rights movement that erupted in 1968 revealed in a few swift weeks white America's failure to respond to the nonviolence of Dr. King, and black America's recoil into desp...
Oct 31, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Pat Watters
Cashing In on Terror Cashing In on Terror
What a boondoggle 9/11 has been for the merchants of war.
Oct 31, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Che Lives…on a T-Shirt Che Lives…on a T-Shirt
What progressives should know about Cuba's most iconic revolutionary.
Oct 31, 2007 / The Nation