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Raising Their Wages Could Save Your Life Raising Their Wages Could Save Your Life

There's been a media frenzy lately on the shortage of nurses in this country. It's justified; this is a serious public health problem. If you've ever been hospitalized, you've pro...

Jun 1, 2006 / The Nation

Occupation Unhinged Occupation Unhinged

The US occupation of Iraq is spiraling out of control. Just when it seems like America couldn't be any more unpopular in Iraq, and around the world, comes the word Haditha. A ho...

Jun 1, 2006 / The Nation

‘The Republic’s Most Valuable Subversive’ ‘The Republic’s Most Valuable Subversive’

It seemed right that John Kenneth Galbraith had the last word at his memorial service. "My father's last book was devoted to the destructiveness of war, the unimaginable cruelty ...

Jun 1, 2006 / The Nation

McCain Dumps Duke’s GOP Successor McCain Dumps Duke’s GOP Successor

There's some ugly trouble for Republicans out here in Southern California. Just days before the June 6 special election to replace jailed former Congressman Duke Cunningham, Senat...

Jun 1, 2006 / The Nation

Former Bush AIDS Czar Slams US Policies Former Bush AIDS Czar Slams US Policies

Five years ago Scott Evertz headed the US delegation to UNGASS where 189 member countries signed the historic Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. In the glacial bureaucracy of ...

May 31, 2006 / The Nation

The Center for Selective Facts The Center for Selective Facts

In response to accusations fromWake Up Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart denies funding the far-right Center for Union Facts (CUF), whose creepy and misleading anti-union ads you may have seen ...

May 31, 2006 / The Nation

Constitutional Contrarianism Constitutional Contrarianism

I don't profess to be an expert on constitutional law. But it doesn't take a genius to note that the outrage coming from both parties over the FBI's raid of Rep. William Jefferson...

May 31, 2006 / The Nation

Act Up Against AIDS Act Up Against AIDS

It's been 25 years since the first diagnosed cases of HIV/AIDS, and as world leaders gather at the UN to assess the state of the epidemic, people will be taking to the streets to ...

May 31, 2006 / The Nation

A Failing Policy’s Last Argument A Failing Policy’s Last Argument

Having lost all positive reasons for the Iraq War, the Bush administration and its allies have fallen back on the last argument of a failing policy: We can't afford to lose in Ira...

May 30, 2006 / The Nation

Suffering in Haditha Suffering in Haditha

Just over a week ago, Rep. John Murtha stated that a military investigation will confirm that over a dozen Iraqi civilians were murdered in Haditha by U.S.Marines. Today, a New Y...

May 26, 2006 / The Nation

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