July 8, 2002 Issue
-
Features
Union Blues at Wal-Mart
Attempts to organize are squelched by a flying column of unionbusters.
John Dicker
-
Vitamin Giants: The Sequel
Price-fixing fines behind them, the firms are close to achieving a monopoly.
Jock Ferguson
-
-
Jewish Media Stranglehold?
Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you stand.
Cliff Rothman
-
Editorials
The Ventura Legacy
<& "$_basedir/include/icaps.imhtml", style=>$icapstyle, letter=>'"A' &>rguing with intelligence, a massive array of facts and a sly wit, Sifry claims that our two-party system is a 'duopoly' that decisively dictates national politics through control of federal money and does not reflect the views or needs of many Americans." --Publishers Weekly, on Micah L. Sifry's Spoiling For a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America.
Micah L. Sifry
-
Clarification
Readers of Andrew Sullivan's website may have noticed a series of items about my piece "Attack of the Homocons," which appeared in The Nation's July 1 issue.
Richard Goldstein
-
-
-
War on Iraq Is Wrong
If the Bush Administration has its way, Iraq will be the first test of its new doctrine of pre-emption. To adopt such a destabilizing strategy is profoundly contrary to our interests and endangers our security.
the Editors
-
-
-
GET THE NATION IN YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING
-
Columns
Bush Overplays the Terror Card
Has the war on terrorism become the modern equivalent of the Roman Circus, drawing the people's attention away from the failures of those who rule them?
Robert Scheer
-
A Second Gilded Age
Would it be too early to sense a sudden, uncovenanted shift against the corporate ethic, if ethic is the word? I can barely turn the page of a newspaper or magazine without striking across either some damaging admission, or at least some damage-control statement, from the boardroom classes.
Christopher Hitchens
-
-
In Martha Stewart’s Kitchen
The camera pans across the room
To see what she has made:
An omelette or a spring bouquet
Or just an inside trade.Calvin Trillin
-
Books and the Arts
-
-
-
-
-
-
Get a Digital Subscription for just $9.50!
-
Letters