Killing Time Killing Time
After years of performing executions at a pace that scares the bejesus out of the civilized world, Texas has put the brakes on its machine as the Supreme Court considers lethal inj...
Oct 23, 2007 / Feature / Mary Mapes
The New China Hands The New China Hands
Corporate America spends millions lobbying to win permanent most favored nation (MFN) trade status for China, with its vast market and dirt-cheap labor force.
Oct 23, 2007 / Feature / Ken Silverstein
Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day? Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
Oct 23, 2007 / Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
The Bush Administration as Cold Warriors in a Strange Land The Bush Administration as Cold Warriors in a Strange Land
They came in as unreformed Cold Warriors, only lacking a cold war -- and looking for an enemy: a Russia to roll back even further; rogue states like Saddam's rickety dictatorship ...
Oct 23, 2007 / TomDispatch
Plamegate Finale: We Were Right; They Were Wrong Plamegate Finale: We Were Right; They Were Wrong
Four and a half years ago, after reading the Robert Novak column that outed Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA operative specializing in counter-proliferation wo...
Oct 23, 2007 / David Corn
FCC Promotes Media Monopolies FCC Promotes Media Monopolies
As my friend and colleague John Nichols wrote last week, "Bush's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has initiated a scheme to radically rewrite media ownership rule...
Oct 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Rebecca Solnit, as usual, offers plenty of food for thought in her essay, "Finding Time." As often with Solnit, I was both impressed by her insight, and impatient of her ...
Oct 22, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week! It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.
Oct 22, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Dodd Refuses to Cave on Domestic Spying Dodd Refuses to Cave on Domestic Spying
As his fellow Democrats rush to pass the President's intelligence bill, Christopher Dodd stands his ground.
Oct 22, 2007 / Feature / Ari Melber
Baghdad on the Bayou Baghdad on the Bayou
On the Oct. 19 edition of Bill Moyers' Journal The Nation 's Jeremy Scahill tells of how Blackwater USA President Erik Prince sent armed guards to New Orleans to provide security...
Oct 22, 2007 / Jeremy Scahill