The Trouble With CAFTA The Trouble With CAFTA
CAFTA promises to extend the harmful impacts of NAFTA to Mexico's weaker southern neighbors.
Jan 16, 2004 / Feature / Mark Engler
‘Soft Multilateralism’ ‘Soft Multilateralism’
You can't go home again.
Jan 15, 2004 / Feature / Immanuel Wallerstein
The View From Mexico The View From Mexico
This past November, along with six other members of the US Congress, I visited Mexico on a Teamsters-sponsored trip in order to assess what NAFTA has done to Mexico.
Jan 15, 2004 / Feature / Sen. Bernie Sanders
A Spectacular Success? A Spectacular Success?
On the tenth anniversary of the NAFTA accord, mainstream media accounts have voiced muted disappointment with its relatively meager effects.
Jan 15, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Kitchen-Table State of the Union The Kitchen-Table State of the Union
With the stock market surging and the economy growing, George W. Bush has begun touting the success of his tax cuts.
Jan 15, 2004 / Editorial / Robert L. Borosage
Border Justice Border Justice
The call by George W. Bush for major reform of our failed immigration policy was undoubtedly made with election-year eyes fixed on the growing Latino vote.
Jan 15, 2004 / Editorial / Marc Cooper
Stuntsmanship Stuntsmanship
This essay, from the June 10, 1961, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on the...
Jan 13, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors
Economics 2004 Economics 2004
The Democratic Party has come a long way from the "lockbox" economics of 2000.
Jan 8, 2004 / Editorial / William Greider
Rebuilding Afghanistan Rebuilding Afghanistan
After twenty-one tension-filled days of raucous speeches, poetry readings, threats, bribery and walkouts, Afghanistan's loya jirga, held to endorse a new Constitution for Afghani...
Jan 8, 2004 / Editorial / Ahmed Rashid