Confronting the CEO Pay Gap Confronting the CEO Pay Gap
The staggering gap between CEOs and workers is, at long last, getting some attention in Campaign '08. But there's still more to be done to tackle the gap. If candidates really wan...
Aug 28, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Attorney General Bruce Fein Attorney General Bruce Fein
It is likely -- though not entirely certain in these tumultuous times for the dangerously adrift Bush-Cheney administration -- that the next Attorney General of the United States ...
Aug 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
Aug 28, 2007 / Feature / Matthew Blake
Brokeback GOP Brokeback GOP
What's up with Republican politicos getting arrested by undercover cops for soliciting sex in public restrooms? First, Florida state representative Bob Allen, formerly John McCain'...
Aug 28, 2007 / Richard Kim
Justice Denied Justice Denied
Alberto Gonzales leaves office with the Justice Department tarnished, the rule of law debased and our civil liberties significantly eroded. It now falls to Congress--and the next P...
Aug 27, 2007 / Aziz Huq
Gonzales: Not a Man of His Word? Gonzales: Not a Man of His Word?
Is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who today announced his resignation, a man of his word? Consider his comments of recent months.
March 13, 2...
Aug 27, 2007 / David Corn
Gonzales Goes But Investigation Must Continue Gonzales Goes But Investigation Must Continue
Facing the prospect of increasingly aggressive congressional inquiries into his politicization of the Department of Justice, as well as an energetic House push for his impeachment...
Aug 27, 2007 / John Nichols
Grace Paley, 1922-2007 Grace Paley, 1922-2007
I am so sad that Grace Paley has died. She was a great writer --every word as pungent as pumpernickel-- with a great subject, the daily lives of women in jewish-immigrant-bo...
Aug 26, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Iraq: “Worst Day Since Vietnam” for Hawaii Iraq: “Worst Day Since Vietnam” for Hawaii
The death of 14 army soldiers in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq on August 23 included ten stationed in Hawaii, making that Hawaii's "worst day . . . since the Vietnam War...
Aug 25, 2007 / Jon Wiener
GOP Attacks John Warner for Failing to Echo George Bush GOP Attacks John Warner for Failing to Echo George Bush
Here is how things work today at the top levels of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. One of the Republican party's most prominent senators, a fo...
Aug 24, 2007 / John Nichols