Articles

Our Collective Bargain Our Collective Bargain

The fortunes of American unions have taken a turn for the worse. Thanks to terrorism and recession, union members are reeling from a series of economic and political setbacks. Ne...

Feb 7, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

Why the Right Loves Bush Why the Right Loves Bush

It was the start of another Conservative Political Action Conference--the annual gathering of several thousand activists--and Republican Party chairman Marc Racicot, in unexcitin...

Feb 7, 2002 / David Corn

Take This Prize and Shove It Take This Prize and Shove It

Right till the end of January, Dita Sari, an Indonesian in her late 20s, was preparing to fly from her home near Jakarta to Salt Lake City to bask in the admiration of assorted d...

Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

What Are They Hiding? What Are They Hiding?

Secrecy is the guiding philosophy of the Bush Administration.

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Russ Baker

Axis Me No Questions… Axis Me No Questions…

George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11 to...

Feb 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

I Won’t Vote I Won’t Vote

Why he won't be voting in 1956.

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / W.E.B. Du Bois

The Liberator Released The Liberator Released

In the issue of January 4, 1866, The Nation--itself founded by a group of abolitionists--paid tribute to the final issue of William Lloyd Garrison's fiery anti-slavery newspaper,...

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Michele Willens

US Commandos Kill Innocents, CIA Pays Off Kin–A Model Program? US Commandos Kill Innocents, CIA Pays Off Kin–A Model Program?

Two months ago, I wrote a piece for the "The Los Angeles Times" proposing that Afghan civilians who had lost relatives, limbs, homes and businesses due to e...

Feb 7, 2002 / David Corn

Indian Giving Indian Giving

"I see Native people dying every day because they can't afford health insurance," Elouise Cobell said over the phone in mid-January from Washington, DC, as she prepared to testi...

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Chris Lombardi

George W. Bush’s ‘Homeland Insecurity’ George W. Bush’s ‘Homeland Insecurity’

George W. Bush wants to drain the Social Security trust fund, with a proposal to divert more than $2 trillion in Social Security and Medicaresurpluses over the next ten years. ...

Feb 6, 2002 / John Nichols

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