Stop the Media Grab Stop the Media Grab
If FCC chairman Kevin Martin prevails, Americans will be stuck with one-size-fits-all media and a downsized democracy.
Oct 25, 2007 / The Editors
Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day? Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
Oct 23, 2007 / Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon
It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week! It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.
Oct 22, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Noted. Noted.
How Chevron fuels the Myanmar military, Blackwater's legal woes and questions for Michael Mukasey.
Oct 18, 2007 / The Nation
Ink-Stained Marx Ink-Stained Marx
A look at the cantankerous dispatches he wrote as London correspondent for the New York Tribune puts the father of communism in a new light.
Oct 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / James Ledbetter
UAW R.I.P.? UAW R.I.P.?
To save the domestic auto industry, the UAW may end up killing itself.
Oct 18, 2007 / Max Fraser
Inconvenient Truth-Tellers Inconvenient Truth-Tellers
This year's Nobel Peace Prize should spur governments and people everywhere to urgent action on climate change.
Oct 18, 2007 / The Editors
Latina America Lavishly Comes of Age Latina America Lavishly Comes of Age
The quinceañera has become a rite of passage for even the poorest Latina teens, another example of our most treasured rites debased at the cash register.
Oct 16, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry
The New American Imperium The New American Imperium
The Democrats appear to be anti-Iraq War. But they surely are not acting like opponents of imperial overreach.
Oct 12, 2007 / Stanley I. Kutler
With Friends Like Turkey… With Friends Like Turkey…
As Turkey ramps up its outrage against a House committee vote to affirm the Armenian genocide, is anyone applauding our lawmakers' act of moral courage?
Oct 12, 2007 / Nicole Vartanian