Paid Sick Days and Family Values Paid Sick Days and Family Values
After raising the minimum wage, economic justice priority number two for the Democratic congress should be mandating paid sick days for all workers. Aside from a simple issue of f...
Dec 5, 2006 / The Nation
Biking with Rumsfeld Biking with Rumsfeld
Last week, someone slipped New York Times reporters Michael R. Gordon and David S. Cloud the secret memo finished by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld just two days before he "...
Dec 5, 2006 / The Nation
The Republican Who Blocked Bolton The Republican Who Blocked Bolton
Lincoln Chafee is cleaning out the Senate office he has occupied since 1999, when he was appointed to complete the term of his late father. The last of what he refers to as the "t...
Dec 5, 2006 / John Nichols
Draining the Gene Pool Draining the Gene Pool
A plant gene that could protect organic crops from contamination from genetically engineered seeds is out of reach to most organic farmers, thanks to an agribusiness patent.
Dec 4, 2006 / Feature / Lisa M. Hamilton
Got Vote? Got Vote?
There are nearly 600,000 citizens in the District of Columbia – more residents than in Wyoming and nearly as many as in six other states with populations under one million. Yet...
Dec 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP’s Big Tent Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP’s Big Tent
Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party's ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.
Dec 4, 2006 / Feature / Roberto Lovato
Double, Double Toil and Trouble Double, Double Toil and Trouble
"Is it just my imagination, or are women wreaking more evil than usual these days?"
Dec 4, 2006 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The ‘Seattle Senators’ The ‘Seattle Senators’
Newly elected advocates of fair trade in the House and Senate could reverse the free-trade absolutism of the Clinton and Bush years.
Dec 4, 2006 / John Nichols
Pinochet Death Watch Pinochet Death Watch
Who's going to definitively catch former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet first? The slow, grinding wheels of earthly justice or the swift ruthlessness of the Grim Reaper? Just ...
Dec 4, 2006 / The Nation
Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment
This coming Tuesday, in San Francisco, the official canvass of the results of the November 7 election must be completed and those results will be certified. On that day, this wil...
Dec 3, 2006 / The Nation