Who Lost the Working Class? Who Lost the Working Class?
A funny thing happened on the way to the election--here's what it portends.
Apr 26, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Levison
Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial
There's a famous passage in Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time where the great Scotch judge and leading Whig stigmatizes some of his Tory predecessors on the bench, including ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Nation Notes Nation Notes
William Greider's article "The Last Farm Crisis" (November 20, 2000) has won a Harry Chapin Media Award, given by World Hunger Year.... Gregory Palast's investigation into the pur...
Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors
No to Global Sweatshops No to Global Sweatshops
New York's City Council is about to open a promising new front in the global struggle against sweatshop exploitation--a city procurement ordinance that requires decent wages and f...
Apr 19, 2001 / William Greider
Corporate Welfare Spoils Corporate Welfare Spoils
In one of the most foolish and cruelly ironic urban public policy decisions in recent memory, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are planning...
Apr 19, 2001 / Ralph Nader
The Beat The Beat
THE RIGHT 'CHOICE' In the first statewide race since the presidential election, Wisconsin voters gave George W. Bush's education program a failing grade. They overwhelmingly reject...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Retro Retro
The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It's ...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job
Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Letters Letters
WHAT'S GERMAN FOR 'SWEATSHOP'? Marburg, Germany Since Jonah Peretti's "My Nike Media Adventure" [April 9] did not mention coverage in continental Europe, I w...
Apr 19, 2001 / Our Readers
Bush Unites the Enviros Bush Unites the Enviros
In early April an alert was sent out by a longtime oceans activist worried that the Bush Administration was about to reverse a program to establish marine protected areas. A numbe...
Apr 19, 2001 / David Helvarg