What’s Working In Your Town? What’s Working In Your Town?
We're trying to survey all the many good ideas being tried outside the range of the Beltway pundits. So tell us about any local, state or municipal initiative in your area that you...
Sep 19, 2002 / The Nation
Sham Pension Reform Sham Pension Reform
When George W. Bush isn't peddling war, he's been goading the Senate to join the Republican House in passing pension reform.
Sep 19, 2002 / Robert L. Borosage
Women Move Up Women Move Up
Shannon O'Brien had advantages going into the campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts. As the state treasurer, she'd won a statewide race.
Sep 19, 2002 / John Nichols
Nation Notes Nation Notes
Patricia J. Williams returns to our pages this week with a tough analysis of Justice Antonin Scalia's faith-based jurisprudence.
Sep 19, 2002 / The Editors
No Case for War No Case for War
Why now? Why, one year after September 11, is the Bush Administration attempting to overthrow decades of precedents and precepts of international law, along with the best tradi...
Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors
Congress and War Congress and War
In January, when George W. Bush's pollster warned that "Enron is a much bigger story than anyone in Washington realizes," White House political director Karl Rove informed the ...
Sep 12, 2002 / John Nichols
The UN Gambit The UN Gambit
George W. Bush's decision to "involve" the United Nations in his plans to attack Iraq does not indicate a conversion to multilateralism on the road to Baghdad. Washington's con...
Sep 12, 2002 / Ian Williams
In Fact… In Fact…
POTENTATE'S PERKS It's been known that Jack Welch is worth $900 million and that he draws a $9 million annual pension from General Electric. But it turns out that GE als...
Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors
Antiwar Activism Antiwar Activism
The political establishment is not united behind the Bush Administration's policy of forced "regime change" in Iraq. The rest of the world, and a good part of the American publ...
Sep 12, 2002 / The Editors
Going Down the Road Going Down the Road
he Powers That Be constantly try to keep the progressive majority divided: workers against environmentalists, enviros against farmers, farmers against consumers, consumers agai...
Sep 12, 2002 / Jim Hightower