Fight the Big-Boxing of America Fight the Big-Boxing of America
Thanks to Nation reader Matt Lipsky for letting us know that the Neighborhood Retail Alliance, a member of the Wal-Mart Free NYC coalition, now has a website and a blog. The s...
May 12, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Fight for Media Reform Fight for Media Reform
The first National Conference on Media Reform was held 18 months ago in Madison, Wisconsin. That conference, which drew 1,800 people from across the country and around the world, ...
May 12, 2005 / John Nichols
Bush’s iPod: Take Three Bush’s iPod: Take Three
Well, he's still deceiving and misleading but we figure Dubya has more time to download now that he has the First Lady out there softening up the press corps for him. What with t...
May 11, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Russia’s First Social Forum Russia’s First Social Forum
Last month, over a thousand trade unionists, human rights activists, students, miners, environmentalists, artists, left thinkers and journalists gathered on a campus in the heart ...
May 9, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Freedom Restored Freedom Restored
I'm delighted to report that the two teenage girls detained without charge and held in a Pennsylvania detention center for six weeks after being called would-be suicide bombers de...
May 9, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Warrior for Workers Warrior for Workers
The labor movement is not about one individual or one moment in time. It goes on, regardless. But there are some individuals who rise through the ranks of the movement at the righ...
May 8, 2005 / John Nichols
“Pork-Laden” Iraq Bill “Pork-Laden” Iraq Bill
Just when you thought it might be impossible for the Bush administration and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to stoop any lower, they have sunk to a new depth. They are now, in th...
May 6, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Code Pink Sweet Victory: Code Pink
In her Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870, Julia Ward Howe--the woman who is credited with founding the holiday--wrote : "In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask...t...
May 6, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Ditch Blair Project The Ditch Blair Project
In Britain, the leader of the government is not elected by a national vote. Rather, the prime minister is the head of the dominant party caucus in the parliament. It is probably ...
May 4, 2005 / John Nichols
Republican Dictionary V Republican Dictionary V
Bankruptcy reform was a handout to the credit card companies, the prescription drug bill was a multibillion-dollar donation to the pharmaceutical industry, the repeal of the death...
May 4, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel