Lamont Gets Key Union Endorsement Lamont Gets Key Union Endorsement
Last Friday, I predicted that AFSCME'S Council 4--Connecticut's largest AFL-CIO union--would endorse Ned Lamont for the US Senate. While the union backed Lieberman in the primary...
Sep 18, 2006 / The Nation
Remembering Afghanistan Remembering Afghanistan
Let's talk about Afghanistan, since no one else will. The nation is once again in crisis. The Taliban is resurgent. Opium production is soaring. Suicide bombings are on the rise. ...
Sep 18, 2006 / The Nation
Iraq: The 2% Truth Iraq: The 2% Truth
Conservatives who whine and bray that the media is presenting a distorted picture of the war may be inadvertently correct. Indeed, things are probably worse than even the darkest ...
Sep 18, 2006 / The Nation
Ruffling a Hawk’s Feathers Ruffling a Hawk’s Feathers
Former state senator and US Senate candidate Burt Cohen (who currentlyhosts a progressive radio talk show) brings us news of a stunning upset inNew Hampshire's first congressional...
Sep 15, 2006 / The Nation
Will Ned Lamont Get Connecticut AFSCME’s Endorsement? Will Ned Lamont Get Connecticut AFSCME’s Endorsement?
Watch for tonight's vote at the Connecticut AFSCME Council 4 meeting. A high-level source in the Lamont campaign told me last night that it looks likely that Council's members wil...
Sep 15, 2006 / The Nation
Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq Revealed Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq Revealed
You've heard the President and Vice President say it over and over: There was a connection between the events of September 11, 2001 and Iraq. Let's take this seriously and conside...
Sep 15, 2006 / The Nation
The Skewed Electorate The Skewed Electorate
A new report from a California think tank confirms what many have long suspected: if Latinos, the poor, and the uneducated voted in proportionate numbers the state's politica...
Sep 14, 2006 / The Nation
Hack the Vote Hack the Vote
So much for ballot security. Three Princeton University professors designed and tested software to hack a Diebold electronic voting machine. Watch the video. On Huffington Post,...
Sep 14, 2006 / The Nation
Shameless in Chicago Shameless in Chicago
Apparently, Wal-Mart's defenders are still shamelessly willing to play the racism card in order to slander the company's critics. For years, as I've written before, the company ha...
Sep 13, 2006 / The Nation
Torture ‘R’ Us [Corrections Department] Torture ‘R’ Us [Corrections Department]
On Tuesday, in its page 2 "Corrections: For the Record" section, the New York Times corrected the misstated given name of a state trooper and the misstated year in which Nikolay ...
Sep 13, 2006 / The Nation