Supreme Court Considers Rights of Home Health Aides Supreme Court Considers Rights of Home Health Aides
Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case which could decide whether home health aides are entitled to federal minimum wage, and the protection of federal overti...
Apr 16, 2007 / The Nation
When Even a Sponge Feels the Squeeze When Even a Sponge Feels the Squeeze
Working people have more in common with a sponge who lives in a pineapple than with the picture painted of job growth by the current Administration.
Apr 13, 2007 / Feature / Annabelle Gurwitch
Wal-Mart’s Conduct in Phillipines Gets Worse Wal-Mart’s Conduct in Phillipines Gets Worse
Some people are outraged that Wal-Mart spied on a New York Times reporter. But the company's behavior to workers overseas is much worse. Wal-Mart is pulling out of the Chong Won...
Apr 13, 2007 / The Nation
DC Voting Rights (continued) DC Voting Rights (continued)
Monday is Emancipation Day in the District – commemorating April 16, 1862 – when 3,100 people were freed in the city, nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation. This...
Apr 13, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Bush Destabilized the Arc of Instability How Bush Destabilized the Arc of Instability
[This is part 3 of "Six Crises in Search of an Author: How the Bush Administration Destabilized the Arc of Instability": part 1 was "Bush's Absurdist Imperialism"; part 2, "Chaos...
Apr 13, 2007 / The Nation
US Silence Muzzles Vietnam’s Dissidents US Silence Muzzles Vietnam’s Dissidents
Vietnam is experiencing its worst crackdown on human rights in decades, and US policy bears part of the blame.
Apr 13, 2007 / Feature / Andrew Lam
Exploiting Imus Exploiting Imus
The media's superficial coverage of Don Imus avoids important questions about free speech and race.
Apr 13, 2007 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Deficit Divide The Deficit Divide
A divide is re-emerging within the Democratic Party between those who want to invest in long-neglected priorities, such as healthcare, poverty and education, and those that believ...
Apr 13, 2007 / The Nation
The Ho Industry The Ho Industry
In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus's racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.
Apr 13, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
The New Suburban Poverty The New Suburban Poverty
For the first time, more poor Americans live in the nation's suburbs than in all our cities combined.
Apr 13, 2007 / Feature / Eyal Press