Politics

Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King

The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.

Dec 14, 2007 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Campaign in the City: LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa Campaign in the City: LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa

" The federal government talks a good game about homeland security. And yet cities, like Los Angeles, are constantly struggling to get the resources we need to provide that securit...

Dec 14, 2007 / The Nation Video and MayorTV

Lippmann and the News Lippmann and the News

In the early 1900s Walter Lippman laid the groundrules for public debate in America. Have the US media followed his prescriptions?

Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michael Schudson

Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland

The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.

Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern

The Obama Effect The Obama Effect

Have the dreams of the civil rights movement been realized or deferred?

Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Gary Younge

Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition

Multiply your good fortune by giving generously to these progressive organizations and charities.

Dec 13, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Locked Up in Limbo Locked Up in Limbo

In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.

Dec 13, 2007 / Laura Mansnerus

Playing the God Card Playing the God Card

It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.

Dec 13, 2007 / John Nichols

Noted. Noted.

The Drum Major Institute talks politics with big-city mayors; what do we say when we talk about torture?

Dec 13, 2007 / The Editors

Bad Sex in the City Bad Sex in the City

There's something untrustworthy about a man who can't conduct a decent affair. Rudy Giuliani never could.

Dec 12, 2007 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski

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