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
McVeigh’s Last Mile McVeigh’s Last Mile
Attorney General John Ashcroft says he does not want Timothy McVeigh to "inject more poison into our culture"--a striking statement, given the method of McVeigh's execution. Accor...
Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
VILLARAIGOSA IN LA Labor Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa's raucous victory party at Union Station on April 10 was rife with the symbolism of a Los Angeles undergoing radical change...
Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors
Voters Rising Voters Rising
As John Lantigua recounts on page 11, the Florida election travesty looks even seamier in retrospect than it did at the time. Worse yet, as secretaries of state from across the co...
Apr 12, 2001 / The Editors
Beyond McCain-Feingold Beyond McCain-Feingold
The Senate's passage of McCain-Feingold was welcome if only as a comeuppance to the Trent Lotts and Mitch McConnells who had arrogantly defied popular sentiment by keeping the ...
Apr 5, 2001 / The Editors
In Fact… In Fact…
HOW THE 'MAESTRO' HAS FALLEN William Greider writes: While it is not exactly news that Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspanhas fallen from his state of infallible grace, t...
Apr 5, 2001 / The Editors
Nation Notes Nation Notes
We're pleased to announce that Jamie Lincoln Kitman's special report, "The Secret History of Lead" (March 20, 2000), has been awarded the Investigative Reporters and Editors' hig...
Apr 5, 2001 / The Editors
Cold War Talk Cold War Talk
The prevailing view of the Bush Administration's expulsion of some fifty Russian diplomats in retaliation for the Robert Hanssen spy scandal has been that it was a throwback to co...
Mar 30, 2001 / The Editors
The Times v. Moyers The Times v. Moyers
On March 26, PBS carried something that has become increasingly rare in our media-besotted land: genuine journalism. The program was an explosive investigation by Bill Moyers and ...
Mar 30, 2001 / The Editors
Here Come the Judges Here Come the Judges
All signs point to an all-out drive by the Bush Administration to slot judicial conservatives into the eighty-nine current vacancies on the federal bench. The recent to-do about e...
Mar 30, 2001 / The Editors