Foreign Agent Fred Foreign Agent Fred
The mainstream media is starting to pay attention to Fred Thompson's decades-long gig as a well-heeled Washington lobbyist. His client list has been noted in this space and elsewhe...
Jun 12, 2007 / Ari Berman
Save the Internet–Again Save the Internet–Again
Concerned citizens nationwide are rallying to stop the latest phone and cable company assault on Internet freedom as the Federal Communications Commission weighs new rules to prot...
Jun 12, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
What America Owes its ‘Illegals’ What America Owes its ‘Illegals’
The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible.
Jun 12, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar
The Iraq War, the declining supply of oil and a flood of US currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.
Jun 12, 2007 / Feature / Ken Miller
Politics Watchdog Follows the Money Online Politics Watchdog Follows the Money Online
MAPlight.org, a Berkeley-based online watchdog, is breaking ground by using technology to track how political contributions shape legislation.
Jun 11, 2007 / Feature / Joan Hamilton
The Missing American Bomb The Missing American Bomb
Here's the strange thing: Since 2001, our media has been filled with terrifying nuclear headlines. The Iraqi bomb (you remember those "mushroom clouds" about to rise ov...
Jun 11, 2007 / TomDispatch
In Praise of Immigrant Students In Praise of Immigrant Students
The educational odysseys of Hunter College's foreign-born graduates disprove the lies spread by anti-immigrant politicians.
Jun 11, 2007 / Feature / Ellen Chesler
Help a Child Take a Vacation from War Help a Child Take a Vacation from War
Since she's not yet blogging herself, I wanted to draw some web users' attention to Nation columnist Katha Pollitt's call for donations to the Bosnian Initiative Frankfurt. Pollit...
Jun 11, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Bad News Benchmarks Bad News Benchmarks
The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index provides the most authoritative measure of how much progress is being made in Iraq. Their recent findings? Not much.
Jun 11, 2007 / Ari Berman
Education for All Education for All
Paying for a college education has become a burden many Americans can no longer afford. Tuition has outpaced the rate of inflation for the last 16 years, some private schools are ...
Jun 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel