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Buddying Up to Wal-Mart Buddying Up to Wal-Mart

Last week, in a remarkable interview with the American Prospect magazine's Ezra Klein, SEIU president Andy Stern, normally one of the more articulate leaders of the American labor...

Mar 29, 2007 / The Nation

WSJ Discovers Globalization’s Downside WSJ Discovers Globalization’s Downside

This just in from today's Wall Street Journal: "Pain From Free Trade Spurs Second Thoughts." Can you believe it? A "downer" story on globalization from the mother church of free-m...

Mar 28, 2007 / The Nation

Iraq Deadline: An Extraordinary Political Moment Iraq Deadline: An Extraordinary Political Moment

Take a deep breath. The nation has arrived at an extraordinary political moment. The Congress is about to instruct the President he should withdraw from the ongoing war. Yes, I kn...

Mar 28, 2007 / The Nation

The Other Surge The Other Surge

The carnage in Iraq continues, but what did anyone expect? Roadside bombs (IEDs) take their deadly almost daily toll on U.S. troops in and around Baghdad (and adjoining provinces...

Mar 28, 2007 / The Nation

Pinkerton’s Men Pinkerton’s Men

The Nation says that Pinkerton's mercenary police force is "the greatest disgrace that has befallen the United States." That was putting it mildly.

Mar 27, 2007 / Feature / The Nation

Public to Dems: Investigate Onward! Public to Dems: Investigate Onward!

Pontificators of conventional wisdom in Washington have been warning Democrats not to overreach in their probe of why 8 US Attorneys were unexpectedly fired last December. "It see...

Mar 27, 2007 / The Nation

No Special Rights No Special Rights

Nonbinding this and that, deadline lah-di-dah, Bush/Cheney are going to ignore the mandate of the midterm elections and every pressure from Congress on Iraq, because Bush/Cheney k...

Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation

Right about Iraq, Written Out of the Story Right about Iraq, Written Out of the Story

Among the missing-in-action of these last years are all those Americans who went out into the streets before the invasion of Iraq began, part of the largest global antiwar demonst...

Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation

We’re Winning We’re Winning

There's been a lot of evidence recently that the Bush administration is causing (or perhaps amplifying) an ideological shift among the American public away from Reagan/Gingrich co...

Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation

Crowdsourcing Elizabeth Edwards Crowdsourcing Elizabeth Edwards

John and Elizabeth Edwards' decision to continue his presidentialbid, despite learning that Ms. Edwards was diagnosed with incurablebut treatable cancer, has sparked impassioned d...

Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation

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