Politics

Onward, Secular Soldiers Onward, Secular Soldiers

Memo to candidates: There are more atheists, agnostics and skeptics out there than you think. How about sending us some love?

Sep 6, 2007 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Bush’s Deceitful Smiles Bush’s Deceitful Smiles

A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, will...

Sep 5, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer

Homos, Hypocrites and Haters Homos, Hypocrites and Haters

The shaming and resignation of Senator Larry Craig proves that if you're going to be a hypocrite in American politics, it pays to be a straight hypocrite.

Sep 4, 2007 / Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Cleaning Up After the Orioles Cleaning Up After the Orioles

Thanks to some major-league grassroots organizing, workers who keep Baltimore's Camden Yards pristine are close to winning the right to a living wage.

Sep 4, 2007 / Column / Dave Zirin

Civics for Cheney Civics for Cheney

The Vice President and his minions need an education in the rudiments of government. Where are the strict constructionists when we need them?

Aug 31, 2007 / Stanley I. Kutler

Travails of the Super-Rich Travails of the Super-Rich

Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.

Aug 31, 2007 / Barbara Ehrenreich

NASA Scientists Challenge Security Rules NASA Scientists Challenge Security Rules

Wary of government efforts to silence global warming research, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Goddard Space Flight Center are going to court to block new security rule...

Aug 30, 2007 / Feature / Dave Lindorff

The Madness of ‘King’ George The Madness of ‘King’ George

If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.

Aug 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Simon Prentis

A New Orleans family travels to their home near New Orleans, La., after it was flooded during Hurricane Ida on September 13, 2021.

New Orleans Is Us New Orleans Is Us

If the American people continue to avert their eyes from the slow death of an abandoned city, their communities may soon be the next to fail.

Aug 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Billy Sothern

Cindy Sheehan’s Political Ambitions Cindy Sheehan’s Political Ambitions

A dialogue between the peace activist and The Nation's editor over Sheehan's plan to run for Congress against Representative Nancy Pelosi.

Aug 29, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Cindy Sheehan

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