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Buddying Up to Wal-Mart Buddying Up to Wal-Mart

Last week, in a remarkable interview with the American Prospect magazine's Ezra Klein, SEIU president Andy Stern, normally one of the more articulate leaders of the American labor...

Mar 29, 2007 / The Nation

WSJ Discovers Globalization’s Downside WSJ Discovers Globalization’s Downside

This just in from today's Wall Street Journal: "Pain From Free Trade Spurs Second Thoughts." Can you believe it? A "downer" story on globalization from the mother church of free-m...

Mar 28, 2007 / The Nation

Iraq Deadline: An Extraordinary Political Moment Iraq Deadline: An Extraordinary Political Moment

Take a deep breath. The nation has arrived at an extraordinary political moment. The Congress is about to instruct the President he should withdraw from the ongoing war. Yes, I kn...

Mar 28, 2007 / The Nation

Surveillance Makes You Paranoid Surveillance Makes You Paranoid

Reports that New York police conducted sweeping nationwide surveillance of people suspected of anti-Bush sentiment in 2004 just might scare us into silence.

Mar 28, 2007 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

Pentagon Cowers Behind Tillman’s Heroism Pentagon Cowers Behind Tillman’s Heroism

Outraged by a Pentagon report on the cover-up of Pat Tillman's friendly fire death, Tillman's parents finger Rumsfeld as the real culprit.

Mar 28, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Other Surge The Other Surge

The carnage in Iraq continues, but what did anyone expect? Roadside bombs (IEDs) take their deadly almost daily toll on U.S. troops in and around Baghdad (and adjoining provinces...

Mar 28, 2007 / The Nation

The Cunningham Scandal: A White House Link? The Cunningham Scandal: A White House Link?

It's a cliche: what a difference a Democratic congressional majority makes. The US attorney scandal, Walter Reed, the suppression of global warming data, th...

Mar 27, 2007 / David Corn

A Question of Blood A Question of Blood

History repeats itself for the white residents of St. Bernard Parish, who tried and failed to restrict rentals in their devastated streets to blood relatives, barring blacks and Hi...

Mar 27, 2007 / Feature / Billy Sothern

Pinkerton’s Men Pinkerton’s Men

The Nation says that Pinkerton's mercenary police force is "the greatest disgrace that has befallen the United States." That was putting it mildly.

Mar 27, 2007 / Feature / The Nation

Exxon’s Shame Exxon’s Shame

Alaskan wood carver Mike Webber unveiled his "Shame Pole" this past Friday in Cordova to mark the 18th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which devastated the area and rui...

Mar 27, 2007 / Peter Rothberg

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