Safe Children v. Free Trade Accords Safe Children v. Free Trade Accords
The latest horror stories about lead-laced toys imported from China may stir Congress to pass legislation providing overdue funding and enforcement authority to the beleagured Con...
Sep 21, 2007 / The Nation
The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe The Fix Is In From the Fed–Maybe
What, exactly, is the interest-rate cut going to fix?
Sep 21, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Healthcare Surrender Monkeys Healthcare Surrender Monkeys
America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.
Sep 21, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich
Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
Acting with impunity and immune from prosecution, a shadow army funded by US taxpayers is fueling the spiraling violence in Iraq.
Sep 21, 2007 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear Why Bush Shed His GI Joe Gear
Has anyone noticed that our commander-in-chief no longer plays dress up? He hasn't done so for a while and that's no small thing. It's a phenomenon that came and went almost with...
Sep 21, 2007 / TomDispatch
Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise Blackwater, Oil and the Colonial Enterprise
Blackwater USA's mercenary mission in Iraq is very much in the news this week, and rightly so. The private military contractor's war-for-profit program, which has been so brillian...
Sep 21, 2007 / John Nichols
Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine” Dan Rather Won’t Take any “Bullshine”
It was riveting television. There was former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, sitting across from CNN's Larry King, railing against the threat powerful media corporations pose to freed...
Sep 21, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Democrats Stab MoveOn in the Back Democrats Stab MoveOn in the Back
Memo to Democrats: you control the Congress. That means you can decide what bills come to the floor for votes--and what don't. So why, in a week where Republicans blocked the resto...
Sep 21, 2007 / Ari Berman
Bush Loses It With MoveOn Bush Loses It With MoveOn
President Bush has made it clear that he does not read newspapers. And there is little reason to believe that the chief executive spends much time viewing serious news programs be...
Sep 20, 2007 / John Nichols
The Logic of Survival The Logic of Survival
In order to preserve his way of life
Odysseus threaded the necks
of twenty faithless servant girls
and hung them in his courtyard
Sep 20, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Moxley