Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial Justice Scotched in Lockerbie Trial

There's a famous passage in Lord Cockburn's Memorials of His Time where the great Scotch judge and leading Whig stigmatizes some of his Tory predecessors on the bench, including ...

Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Bush Unites the Enviros Bush Unites the Enviros

In early April an alert was sent out by a longtime oceans activist worried that the Bush Administration was about to reverse a program to establish marine protected areas. A numbe...

Apr 19, 2001 / David Helvarg

Nation Notes Nation Notes

William Greider's article "The Last Farm Crisis" (November 20, 2000) has won a Harry Chapin Media Award, given by World Hunger Year.... Gregory Palast's investigation into the pur...

Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors

Bush’s Contra Buddies Bush’s Contra Buddies

The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A numb...

Apr 19, 2001 / Peter Kornbluh

No to Global Sweatshops No to Global Sweatshops

New York's City Council is about to open a promising new front in the global struggle against sweatshop exploitation--a city procurement ordinance that requires decent wages and f...

Apr 19, 2001 / William Greider

Corporate Welfare Spoils Corporate Welfare Spoils

In one of the most foolish and cruelly ironic urban public policy decisions in recent memory, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are planning...

Apr 19, 2001 / Ralph Nader

The Beat The Beat

THE RIGHT 'CHOICE' In the first statewide race since the presidential election, Wisconsin voters gave George W. Bush's education program a failing grade. They overwhelmingly reject...

Apr 19, 2001 / Column / John Nichols

Retro Retro

The corporate types are firmly in control. The Russians, it appears, have sent a mole To steal our secrets. And the Chinese wait For tension to develop in their Strait. It's ...

Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Letters Letters

WHAT'S GERMAN FOR 'SWEATSHOP'? Marburg, Germany Since Jonah Peretti's "My Nike Media Adventure" [April 9] did not mention coverage in continental Europe, I w...

Apr 19, 2001 / Our Readers

Bush Vs. Green Bush Vs. Green

Barbara Kingsolver, renowned author of The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer, wrote this call-to-action against the profound threats the new administration poses to