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November 5, 2007 Issue

James Ledbetter on Karl Marx, journalist; Alexander Cockburn on Al Gore; Calvin Trillin on Bush’s next move…

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Editorial

Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?

Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon

It’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!

David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Noted.

How Chevron fuels the Myanmar military, Blackwater's legal woes and questions for Michael Mukasey.

The Nation

Ink-Stained Marx

A look at the cantankerous dispatches he wrote as London correspondent for the New York Tribune puts the father of communism in a new light.

James Ledbetter

UAW R.I.P.?

To save the domestic auto industry, the UAW may end up killing itself.

Max Fraser

Inconvenient Truth-Tellers

This year's Nobel Peace Prize should spur governments and people everywhere to urgent action on climate change.

The Editors

Column

The Rockies Get Off Their Knees

As baseball's most sanctimonious team heads to the World Series, the Colorado Rockies are playing down their holier-than-thou image.

Dave Zirin

With Facts on Our Side

Faced with a choice between facts and theology, antichoicers choose the latter every time.

Katha Pollitt

The Real Al Gore

For a Man of Peace, Gore has plenty of blood on his hands.

Alexander Cockburn

Black Nights in the White House

R.O. Blechman

The End Game

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Our readers weigh in on Marvin Kitman's paean to Keith Olbermann and continue to react to "The Other War," by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian.

Our Readers

Feature

If Gore Were Arrested…

As carbon emissions raise the planetary temperature, environmental activists are asking Nobel laureate Al Gore to engage in civil disobedience protesting construction of coal-fi...

Mark Hertsgaard

A Whistleblower’s Tale

Republican lawyer Jill Simpson was the absent star of Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on selective prosecution.

Glynn Wilson

Sudan’s ‘Lost Boys’ Return Home

Three young men who fled the fighting in South Sudan as children return home to find what's left of their families and do what they can to help.

Jen Marlowe

Killing Time

After years of performing executions at a pace that scares the bejesus out of the civilized world, Texas has put the brakes on its machine as the Supreme Court considers lethal inj...

Mary Mapes

Dodd Refuses to Cave on Domestic Spying

As his fellow Democrats rush to pass the President's intelligence bill, Christopher Dodd stands his ground.

Ari Melber

The New GOP Means Business

Forget Values Voters. With Bushism discredited and mainstream Republicans looking for candidates with business savvy and competence, Democrats may be facing far more formidable foe...

Bob Moser

Al Franken Seeks the Wellstone Seat

Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken has won wide support among voters--and conservatives are getting scared.

John Nichols

Father of History

Bettina Aptheker's recent memoir has incited fierce debate over her father s legacy.

Christopher Phelps

Hillary’s Mystery Money Men

The men behind the money that made Bush now want to claim the Clinton campaign. Is someone cooking the books at Hillary Inc.?

Russ Baker and Adam Federman

Toxic Toys

As safety scandals dampen the public's appetite for cheap imports, the European Union is raising doubts about standards and oversight in the US toy industry.

Mark Schapiro