Gas Price-gouging or Business as Usual? Gas Price-gouging or Business as Usual?
As the Senate opens hearings this week calling energy execs to account for their windfall profits on gasoline and natural gas, the question must be asked: Is this price-gouging or ...
Nov 7, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Passing the Torch Passing the Torch
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel takes on the role of publisher and general partner at the magazine, and Victor Navasky becomes publisher emeritus and a member of the magazine's...
Nov 7, 2005 / The Editors
¿Cómo Se Dice ‘Spin’? ¿Cómo Se Dice ‘Spin’?
George Bush had a tough time of it last weekend in Argentina. Mass demonstrations of opposition to the President's trade and economic policies greeted his every move. And even in...
Nov 7, 2005 / John Nichols
The Wrong Journalistic Decision The Wrong Journalistic Decision
If one needed more reason to criticize the Washington Post's decision to withhold information, at the government's request, about the CIA's network of prisons in Eastern Europe f...
Nov 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Chávez and Maradona Lead Massive Rebuke of Bush Chávez and Maradona Lead Massive Rebuke of Bush
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona led thousands in a massive rebuke of George W. Bush, his trade policies and his neoconservative age...
Nov 5, 2005 / Feature / Jordana Timerman
The Virginia GOP’s Dirty Money The Virginia GOP’s Dirty Money
Republican candidates in Virginia do a lot of posturing on being tough on crime--but behind their self-righteous political ads, there is a hidden history of racism, questionable fu...
Nov 4, 2005 / Feature / Max Blumenthal
Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet–and Ignored Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet–and Ignored
WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes has just come out of the closet. But why didn't anyone care?
Nov 4, 2005 / Dave Zirin
Congressmen Want Cheney to Testify Congressmen Want Cheney to Testify
Vice President Dick Cheney has had very little to say about the indictment of his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice...
Nov 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Spin Control at Wal-Mart Spin Control at Wal-Mart
A hard-hitting documentary, an embarrassing leaked memo on healthcare and abandonment by customers who don't like its politics. It's getting harder these days for Wal-Mart to put o...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Sweet Victory: Wal-Mart Roundup Sweet Victory: Wal-Mart Roundup
It's been a tough year for Wal-Mart, and things are about to get tougher. Last Tuesday, at the world premiere of Robert Greenwald's Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, SEIU chi...
Nov 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel