Tsunami & US Priorities Tsunami & US Priorities
As the death toll from the tsunami disaster continued to grow, the Bush Administration scrambled to answer widespread criticism that it responded too slowly and with too little a...
Jan 6, 2005 / The Editors
Gonzales: The Fight Is On Gonzales: The Fight Is On
Click here for info on how you can help oppose Gonzales's nomination.
Jan 5, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro
Intervention Intervention
The Jonathan Schell Reader has just been published by Nation Books.
Dec 22, 2004 / Jonathan Schell
Jack Newfield Jack Newfield
Our friend Jack Newfield, who died on December 20, was a fight fan. Although his heart was with the peace movement, his love for this violent sport was appropriate in a number of...
Dec 22, 2004 / The Editors
Stanton’s Wisdom Stanton’s Wisdom
One afternoon in January 1892, in a packed convention hall in Washington, DC, the 76-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton rose from her seat to address the annual meeting of the Natio...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’ Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!" Nope, not the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dec 22, 2004 / Thomas A. Dutton and Rev. Damon Lynch III
Wrong for Civil Rights Wrong for Civil Rights
When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media's harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry's purported combativeness distracted rea...
Dec 22, 2004 / Susan Eaton
Trading Down Trading Down
In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...
Dec 22, 2004 / David Moberg
Seeds of Hope Seeds of Hope
At the close of 2004, progressives can be forgiven for feeling they've found themselves in a particularly bleak midwinter.
Dec 22, 2004 / The Editors