Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’ Cincinnati’s ‘Beacon’
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!" Nope, not the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dec 22, 2004 / Thomas A. Dutton and Rev. Damon Lynch III
Wrong for Civil Rights Wrong for Civil Rights
When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media's harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry's purported combativeness distracted rea...
Dec 22, 2004 / Susan Eaton
Trading Down Trading Down
In less than five years, the garment industry in poor, war-ravaged Cambodia has more than doubled into a $1.5 billion industry employing 200,000 workers and generating nearly thr...
Dec 22, 2004 / David Moberg
Seeds of Hope Seeds of Hope
At the close of 2004, progressives can be forgiven for feeling they've found themselves in a particularly bleak midwinter.
Dec 22, 2004 / The Editors
Letters Letters
SAVE YOUR CONFEDERATE MONEY... Manchester, NJ
Dec 22, 2004 / Thomas Geoghegan, Laura Flanders, Our Readers, and Laura Ross
The Republican Dictionary: Part 3 The Republican Dictionary: Part 3
This past November, I wrote about the right's semantic trickery and proposed an idea for how we could debunk and decode the conservative's Orwellian Code of encrypted language: A...
Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common? What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN Have in Common?
What do the CIA, the Pentagon and the UN have in common? They share a prescient view of the world's greatest dangers and their unheralded agreement on key issues facing the planet...
Dec 21, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Newfield’s Passionate Journalism Newfield’s Passionate Journalism
In RFK: A Memoir, the finest of the shelf full of books he produced during a career that was as prolific as it was meaningful, Jack Newfield succeeded in explaining the late Rober...
Dec 21, 2004 / John Nichols
A Christmas Amnesty A Christmas Amnesty
This article, from the December 14, 1946, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation’s Digital Archive.
Dec 21, 2004 / Feature / Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The GOP’s Sabotage of Social Security The GOP’s Sabotage of Social Security
The President considers my longevity a grave threat to the nation.
Dec 21, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer