Campaign in the City: Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson Campaign in the City: Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson
"Republicans and Democrats alike, among mayors in this country, have been very, very upset and concerned about the disregard for cities by this administration."
Dec 14, 2007 / The Nation Video and MayorTV
Campaign in the City: Mayors on the Issues Campaign in the City: Mayors on the Issues
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the fourth in a series of conversations on the issues at stake for America's cities in Campaign 08.
Dec 14, 2007 / The Nation Video and MayorTV
Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
Dec 14, 2007 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Campaign in the City: LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa Campaign in the City: LA Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa
" The federal government talks a good game about homeland security. And yet cities, like Los Angeles, are constantly struggling to get the resources we need to provide that securit...
Dec 14, 2007 / The Nation Video and MayorTV
Lippmann and the News Lippmann and the News
In the early 1900s Walter Lippman laid the groundrules for public debate in America. Have the US media followed his prescriptions?
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Michael Schudson
Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland Waiting for Godot in a Wasteland
The most devastated neighborhood in America makes an ideal backdrop for a morally ambiguous play about abandonment.
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern
The Obama Effect The Obama Effect
Have the dreams of the civil rights movement been realized or deferred?
Dec 13, 2007 / Feature / Gary Younge
Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition
Multiply your good fortune by giving generously to these progressive organizations and charities.
Dec 13, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Locked Up in Limbo Locked Up in Limbo
In California, sex offenders face the specter of incarceration without end.
Dec 13, 2007 / Laura Mansnerus
Playing the God Card Playing the God Card
It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.
Dec 13, 2007 / John Nichols