Cheney’s Deadly ‘Last Throes’ Cheney’s Deadly ‘Last Throes’
Vice President Dick Cheney, who predicted on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, that Americans would be "greeted as liberators," has in recent weeks been peddling a new line of...
Aug 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Reactors & Racism Reactors & Racism
The Entergy Nuclear company of Jackson, Missippippi, with the blessing of the Bush Administration, is seeking preliminary approval to add one or two new nuclear reactors to its...
Aug 3, 2005 / Joseph J. Mangano
Wal-Mart Woos the Eggheads Wal-Mart Woos the Eggheads
Last year, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein organized an academic conference on Wal-Mart at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Experts held forth on the Wal-Mart...
Aug 3, 2005 / Liza Featherstone
Leave No God Behind Leave No God Behind
Days after Bill Frist, the White House's choice for Senate majority leader, turned his back on religious conservatives to support federal funding for stem cell research, President...
Aug 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Call the President an “SOB,” Win Votes Call the President an “SOB,” Win Votes
"Two months ago, the special election race in the 2nd Congressional District, which stretches across seven southern Ohio counties, was expected to be a low-key affair, a near-auto...
Aug 3, 2005 / John Nichols
A Welcome Return to Enforcing Labor Laws A Welcome Return to Enforcing Labor Laws
The abysmal cases of slave labor in the US are both shocking and terribly mundane.
Aug 3, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Republican Wilding Republican Wilding
Congress and the President went home this week with the President on a roll.
Aug 3, 2005 / Robert L. Borosage
Bolton Sent to UN Bolton Sent to UN
The conservatives who applauded the President's courage in making a recess appointment are normally strict constructionists, and although Bush is not the first President to abuse t...
Aug 2, 2005 / Ian Williams
What’s My Name, Fool? What’s My Name, Fool?
In The Godfather, Part II, dying mob boss Hyman Roth wheezes the obscene truth to young Don Michael Corleone.
Aug 2, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Readers of The Nation online are used to hearing about Wal-Mart. In fact, it tends to be one of those subjects that we can't do enough on. We've been strongly supportive of effort...
Aug 2, 2005 / Peter Rothberg