Five Questions for Robert Greenwald Five Questions for Robert Greenwald
What motivated director Robert Greenwald to spend a year on a documentary detailing Wal-Mart's impact on American life, culture and commerce?
Nov 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Sam Graham-Felsen
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
On the Wal-Mart Money Trail On the Wal-Mart Money Trail
As the nation's wealthiest family, the Waltons could be a force for social good. But when they choose to spend their fortune lobbying for pet projects, tax cuts and charter schools...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Rising Prices + Higher Interest Rates = Middle-Class Misery Rising Prices + Higher Interest Rates = Middle-Class Misery
Interest rates nosed higher today as the Federal Reserve Board sought to control inflation. But the impact of runaway inflation is already being felt by workers whose wages will st...
Nov 1, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Say It Ain’t So, Big Leagues Say It Ain’t So, Big Leagues
Strip-mining the Dominican Republic for talent, Major League Baseball periodically plucks one lucky boy from his home and family and gives him a dream for a better life. But what h...
Oct 26, 2005 / Feature / Dave Zirin
Gore Vidal, Octocontrarian Gore Vidal, Octocontrarian
Marc Cooper interviews Gore Vidal about an America that is increasingly controlled by corporations and suggests that the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the Iraq debacle signal the break...
Oct 20, 2005 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Asbestos Liability Scam Asbestos Liability Scam
The Senate will soon consider the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act (FAIR) that is anything but for the workers whose health has been impaired by asbestos. It's a move by ...
Oct 20, 2005 / Editorial / William Johnson and Kate Levin
Robbing the Poor Robbing the Poor
As House Republicans use the cost of recovery from Gulf Coast storms as an excuse to rip last-minute holes in the social safety net, it's not too late to change priorities.
Oct 20, 2005 / Editorial / Sharon Lerner
Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench Goodbye, Mr. Goodwrench
Delphi's bankruptcy is a marker of a new America in which there is no collective security, no union to make you strong, no government to give you shelter, in which workers stand al...
Oct 14, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Bono Meets Dr. Shock Bono Meets Dr. Shock
It's easy to scoff at a rock star like Bono pairing up with economist Jeffrey Sachs. But their tireless lobbying for debt relief for the poorest nations could make a real differenc...
Oct 13, 2005 / Editorial / Doug Henwood