Teenage Birth Rate Drops to a 65-Year Low Teenage Birth Rate Drops to a 65-Year Low
What's working--less sex or better contraception? WireTap looks at what's behind the sharp decline.
Apr 18, 2007 / The Nation
Debunking the Gun Lobby Debunking the Gun Lobby
Back in the late 1990s, the Harvard School of Public Health undertook an exhaustive study of Americans' attitudes toward guns. Given our reputation as a trigger-hungry nation, the...
Apr 18, 2007 / The Nation
More Guns, More Murder More Guns, More Murder
Upon his re-election as Mayor of New York City, Mike Bloomberg said his top priority was curbing gun violence. "Our most urgent challenge is ending the threat of guns and the viol...
Apr 17, 2007 / The Nation
What If the Shiites Went into the Streets? What If the Shiites Went into the Streets?
Mortar attacks on the Green Zone, the American controlled and massively fortified citadel in the heart of Baghdad, were already on the rise when, late last week, a suicide bomber ...
Apr 17, 2007 / The Nation
Comeuppance is Making a Comeback Comeuppance is Making a Comeback
Comeuppance is making a comeback. The CBS talk jock Don Imus got his. The World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz's seems to be in the works. The odds are that Attorney General Alber...
Apr 16, 2007 / The Nation
“A Tragedy… of Monumental Proportions.” “A Tragedy… of Monumental Proportions.”
There will be plenty of "rapid responses" to the gun rampage on the Virginia Tech campus, which has claimed the lives of as many as 31 students -- making it the deadliest school s...
Apr 16, 2007 / The Nation
Supreme Court Considers Rights of Home Health Aides Supreme Court Considers Rights of Home Health Aides
Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case which could decide whether home health aides are entitled to federal minimum wage, and the protection of federal overti...
Apr 16, 2007 / The Nation
Wal-Mart’s Conduct in Phillipines Gets Worse Wal-Mart’s Conduct in Phillipines Gets Worse
Some people are outraged that Wal-Mart spied on a New York Times reporter. But the company's behavior to workers overseas is much worse. Wal-Mart is pulling out of the Chong Won...
Apr 13, 2007 / The Nation
How Bush Destabilized the Arc of Instability How Bush Destabilized the Arc of Instability
[This is part 3 of "Six Crises in Search of an Author: How the Bush Administration Destabilized the Arc of Instability": part 1 was "Bush's Absurdist Imperialism"; part 2, "Chaos...
Apr 13, 2007 / The Nation
The Deficit Divide The Deficit Divide
A divide is re-emerging within the Democratic Party between those who want to invest in long-neglected priorities, such as healthcare, poverty and education, and those that believ...
Apr 13, 2007 / The Nation