LA’s Two May Day Marches LA’s Two May Day Marches
On May Day, hundreds of thousands of people demanding rights for undocumented immigrants marched down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.
May 1, 2006 / Jon Wiener
Jane Jacobs’s Genius Jane Jacobs’s Genius
A tribute to Jane Jacobs's extraordinary vision of urban life and her passionate care for people and places.
May 1, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Roberta Brandes Gratz and Stephen A. Goldsmith
The Pain Game The Pain Game
Apparently when Republicans were urging Americans to get tough on crime they were doing it to protect us from themselves. Just last week, Karl Rove went back to testify to the gra...
May 1, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Walk-outs, Rallies and Other Strategies Walk-outs, Rallies and Other Strategies
In the hours before the kick-off the Day Without Immigrants activities,it feels like today's protests are going to be once again of historicproportions. Here in Los Angeles, the ...
May 1, 2006 / The Nation
Crisis of the Republic Time Crisis of the Republic Time
If you had any doubt that this is a time of constitutional crisis, read the important, frightening (and under-covered) story in Sunday's Boston Globe. It documents an accumulating...
May 1, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bracing for the Immigrant Boycott Bracing for the Immigrant Boycott
Los Angeles is expected to be the epicenter of toay's nationwide "Day Without Immigrants" protests and rallies. Local officials have said they are bracing for a turnout perhaps la...
May 1, 2006 / The Nation
“Galbraith for President” “Galbraith for President”
Had it not been for the accident of his birth in Iona Station, Ontario, John Kenneth Galbraith, the greatest public intellectual of the second half of the American century, would ...
Apr 30, 2006 / John Nichols
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006
John Kenneth Galbraith died at the age of 97, shortly after 9:00 on Saturday night. America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure. As...
Apr 30, 2006 / The Nation
Sweet Victory: Arkansas Gets a Raise, Who’s Next? Sweet Victory: Arkansas Gets a Raise, Who’s Next?
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. The evidence is mounting: there is perhaps no issue that transcends ideology like increasing the minimum wage. 86 percent of America supports boo...
Apr 29, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Getting Hosed Getting Hosed
As oil profits soar, Americans are getting hosed at the gas pump, and Congress can't decide whether to raise taxes, lower them or throw money at the voters.
Apr 28, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman