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
McVeigh’s Last Mile McVeigh’s Last Mile
Attorney General John Ashcroft says he does not want Timothy McVeigh to "inject more poison into our culture"--a striking statement, given the method of McVeigh's execution. Accor...
Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors
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
Chinese Boxes Chinese Boxes
Thankfully, the clash between Washington and Beijing over the downing of a US reconnaissance plane off Hainan Island never spiraled out of control like the Chinese jet that buzzed...
Apr 19, 2001 / The Editors
Discovery/The Nation ’01 Prizewinners Discovery/The Nation ’01 Prizewinners
The Nation announces the winners of Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.
Apr 19, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Grace Schulman
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
Lie to the Media, Get a Job Lie to the Media, Get a Job
Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the n...
Apr 19, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Letter From Italy Letter From Italy
Fascism is presentable again--but without the torchlight rallies.
Apr 19, 2001 / Feature / John L. Allen Jr.
Otto Reich, WRAP Star Otto Reich, WRAP Star
Otto Reich is the vice chairman of Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production or WRAP, a clothing-industry front founded about a year ago to undermine the growing antisweatshop move...
Apr 17, 2001 / Feature / Alec Dubro
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
Apr 15, 2001 / Barbara Kingsolver