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