Letters Letters
NAFTA HIGHWAY TO HELL
Kansas City, Kan.
Sep 26, 2007 / Arthur Waskow, Our Readers, and Chris Hayes
More Skinny on Fat Cells More Skinny on Fat Cells
Here are two more interesting articles on the bane of our collective existence: body weight. First up is this New York magazine article, titled "The Scientist and the Stairmas...
Sep 26, 2007 / Lakshmi Chaudhry
Strike Over Strike Over
The UAW's national strike against General Motors came to a quick end at 4 a.m. today, with the announcement that a tentative agreement had been reached. Though most details of the ...
Sep 26, 2007 / Max Fraser
State Dept: Corruption in Iraq is Classified State Dept: Corruption in Iraq is Classified
Corruption in the Iraqi government--it's classified information. So says the State Department.
In preparation for a September 27 hearing on corrupti...
Sep 26, 2007 / David Corn
Biden One-Ups Bush Biden One-Ups Bush
Instead of spending even more money armoring soldiers' vehicles, he should work harder at trying to end the war.
Sep 26, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Battle in Aurora Battle in Aurora
Aurora, Illinois has become ground zero in the fight for women's access to reproductive health care. Last Thursday a federal judge denied Planned Parenthood's request for an inj...
Sep 25, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Heritage Goes Hollywood Heritage Goes Hollywood
On Wednesday the conservative Heritage Foundation took a short break from opposing the state children's health insurance program to ponder the tired conservative complaint that li...
Sep 25, 2007 / The Nation
Bush’s War Funding Safety Net Bush’s War Funding Safety Net
Even if Congress refused to authorize more money for the Iraq debacle, the White House could make an end run via an obscure Civil War statute.
Soldiers Who Steal Soldiers Who Steal
When it comes to this whole scandal regarding graft in US military contracts, I like to muse over the strange mea culpa put forward by military brass who admitted to The New York T...
Sep 25, 2007 / Karen Houppert
Is Jena America? Is Jena America?
"Jena is America," says Alan Bean, speaking of the Louisiana town where six black students are looking at decades in jail for a schoolyard brawl while white kids are faci...
Sep 25, 2007 / Laura Flanders