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Sweet Victory: Cintas Workers Win Big Sweet Victory: Cintas Workers Win Big

In 1999 Cintas Corp, the largest uniformrental provider in the country, signed a contract with Hayward,California to become the officiallaunderer of the city's uniforms. As a cond...

Oct 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A Mess of George Bush’s Own Making A Mess of George Bush’s Own Making

It is fair to say that a good many Americans perceive George W. Bush to be a doltish incompetent who does not know the first thing about fighting terrorism. But, whatever the pre...

Oct 6, 2005 / John Nichols

Gitmo’s Shame Gitmo’s Shame

You would hardly know it from watching the news or reading the papers, but there's a two-month-old hunger strike going on at Guantánamo Bay. After more than three years of intern...

Oct 5, 2005 / Peter Rothberg

‘Are You Going to Provide $5 Million for The Nation?’ ‘Are You Going to Provide $5 Million for The Nation?’

In a scathing report issued on September 30, the Government Accountability Office's investigators said the Bush Administration had broken the law by using taxpayer dollars to diss...

Oct 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Not Since Nixon Not Since Nixon

More than three decades have passed since a President nominated someone without judicial experience to serve on the US Supreme Court. The last such nominations--those of William...

Oct 3, 2005 / John Nichols

Indicting the President’s Policies Indicting the President’s Policies

In Washington, where it is exceeding difficult to get the political players or the press corps to pay attention to more than one story at once, no0 one would suggest that it was "...

Sep 30, 2005 / John Nichols

Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works Sweet Victory: Desegregation Works

As Jonathan Kozol points out in his new book Shame of the Nation, the promise of Brown v. Board of Education remains unfulfilled. Thanks largely to a spate of Rehnquist Court deci...

Sep 30, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Roberts Draws 22 Democratic Votes Roberts Draws 22 Democratic Votes

The stampede to confirm Judge John Roberts as the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court roared through the full Senate Thursday as the chamber voted 78-22 to give President...

Sep 29, 2005 / John Nichols

Support the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act Support the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act

"Crony capitalism," Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer writes this week, "is the name of the Republican game." Scheer couldn't be more correct. The headline of the lead bu...

Sep 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg

Exposing the Culture of Corruption Exposing the Culture of Corruption

Today's indictment of House Majority leader Tom DeLay is a sign that there is some accountability in our capitol. Over the last year, a small group of public interest organization...

Sep 28, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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