Senators Call For ‘Sweatshop-Free Barbie’ Senators Call For ‘Sweatshop-Free Barbie’
Attention shoppers: With the holiday season fast approaching isn't it time to give your child a doll or toy-train not made in a sweatshop? That's the message labor rights advocat...
Oct 25, 2007 / The Nation
Myanmar: Monks and the Military Myanmar: Monks and the Military
If the Buddhist sangha and the military are the two dominant forces in the suffering society of Burma, could monks and dissident soldiers join forces to rise up against an oppressi...
Oct 25, 2007 / Feature / Charles London
Hawking War Guilt Hawking War Guilt
All the warmongering that's fit to print.
Oct 25, 2007 / Feature / Jim Sleeper
Darfur’s Divided Rebellion Darfur’s Divided Rebellion
As peace talks open between rebels and the government in Darfur, the question is: who speaks for whom?
Oct 25, 2007 / Feature / Shane Bauer
Sudan’s ‘Lost Boys’ Return Home Sudan’s ‘Lost Boys’ Return Home
Three young men who fled the fighting in South Sudan return home to reunite with loved ones.
Oct 25, 2007 / Jen Marlowe
Shanker Blows Up the World Shanker Blows Up the World
The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.
Oct 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Thomas J. Sugrue
Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran
Those echoes that Americans are hearing in the noisy-and-getting-noisier debate about Iran are from 2002 and 2003, when members of the current administration were busy spinning th...
Oct 25, 2007 / John Nichols
Play It (Over and Over Again) Play It (Over and Over Again)
Ben Ratliff's not-quite biography of John Coltrane considers the jazz legend's enduring influence.
Oct 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Travis A. Jackson
Revenants Revenants
In South African writer Zakes Mda's fiction, the past hovers like a ghost--seductive and terrifying.
Oct 25, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Laila Lalami
The Kids Aren’t Alright The Kids Aren’t Alright
President Bush's neglect of government-sponsored childcare programs has a steep price. Children are paying.
Oct 25, 2007 / Feature / Sharon Lerner