Inflation’s Undertow Inflation’s Undertow
Stop the rejoicing about the rise in the minimum wage. Thanks to inflation, the prosperity of the working poor and the middle class is at real and rising risk.
Aug 3, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Now That’s a Patriot Act Now That’s a Patriot Act
Now here is a Patriot Act everyone can get behind. It's called the Patriot Corporation of America Act and it rewards the companies that don't screw their employees and weaken the c...
Aug 3, 2007 / William Greider
Al Franken’s Rising Fortunes Al Franken’s Rising Fortunes
It's early in the game, but his bid to unseat Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman is gaining strength.
Aug 3, 2007 / Feature / Jon Wiener
Snakes on a Cruise! Snakes on a Cruise!
Who's on this ship? A lot of nice, intelligent people, a few 9/11 conspiracists, a self-righteous blowhard or two and an undercover reporter for the New York Times.
Aug 3, 2007 / Feature / Gary Younge
The Weekly Standard’s Strange Sources The Weekly Standard’s Strange Sources
The war in Iraq has sparked a parallel war between two of Washington's most prominent partisan political publications, The New Republic and the Weekly Standard. The war has been ak...
Aug 3, 2007 / Max Blumenthal
Hillary Silent on Murdoch Hillary Silent on Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the Wall Street Journal this week is drawing the ire of some Democrats running for President. Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd called the deal "a s...
Aug 3, 2007 / Ari Berman
A Rally in Juneau A Rally in Juneau
Veterans for Peace in Juneau greeted the Nation cruise when it docked in their city with a rally against the war.
Aug 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood
The Stuff of Heartbreak The Stuff of Heartbreak
When an ardently progressive magazine sponsors a cruise through the fragile waters off the coast of Alaska, the environmental, economic and human realities are ripe for contemplati...
Aug 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Doug Henwood
When a Government Won’t Own Up When a Government Won’t Own Up
Rescue and cleanup workers, who put their lives on the line in our nation's darkest hour, weren't given information about environmental risks and are now paying the price with fin...
Aug 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect
As rescue workers continued to pull bodies out of the stretch of the Mississippi River that runs beneath the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis Thursday, U.S. Transportation Se...
Aug 2, 2007 / John Nichols