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Feature
The Political Costs of Wal-Mart
Cozying up to Wal-Mart may cost a New Jersey mayor his job.
Liza Featherstone
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Is Union-busting Bad for Business?
About those secret payments, alligator boots, and how to “Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart.”
Liza Featherstone
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Congress Tunes In
Chastened by voter response to their earlier errors, many legislators push reform.
John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott
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Amy Goodman’s ‘Empire’
How a prospective biochemist became a muckraker and champion of media reform
Lizzy Ratner
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Prometheus Unbound
The once-hunted outlaw of low-power radio is now a hero–including at the FCC.
Rick Karr
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Calling Air America
Launched last year on a wing and a prayer, it’s still aloft and gaining altitude.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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Editorial
Property Rights and Health Care in the States
State Rep. Wes McKinley of Colorado stays in the minority, while Democrats and Progressives in Vermont move toward the majority.
David Sirota
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Letter From Ground Zero
At the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference, two groups are colliding.
Jonathan Schell
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Labor’s Lost in LA
By supporting LA’s incumbent mayor, the labor movement may have weakened its hand.
Marc Cooper
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Column
Nationalism’s Psychotic Side
Even decent people can be swept along by barbarism when a nation gets sick.
Robert Scheer
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Our Loss Was Our Gain in Vietnam
Thirty years after the US retreat, Vietnam is a peaceful trading partner.
Robert Scheer
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What Would Dewey Do?
Robert Novak has never given the impression that he cared much for the virtues of civility.
Eric Alterman
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Beyond the Pale
A closer look at sexual abuse cases makes the questions surrounding them even murkier.
Patricia J. Williams
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George W. Bush, Who Says He’s a Man With a Lot of Political Capital, Finds That He Has No Liquidity
Remember what Bush was like before bin Laden?
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
In 1865 22-year-old Henry James contributed a scathing book review titled “The Noble School of Fiction” to the very first issue of The Nation.
Mark Hatch-Miller
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The Avenging Angel
For abolitionist John Brown, equality was not a theoretical stance but a daily practice.
Martin Duberman
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Letters
Radio Days–and Nights
Responding to our call for “Radio Raves,” readers eager to extol the virtues of their favorite radio stations overwhelmed our in-box.
Our Readers