Nutter Wins in Philadelphia Nutter Wins in Philadelphia
A favored Democrat's mayoral primary win divides a city between those who support his hardball anticrime tactics and minorities who see them as a blueprint for racial profiling.
May 17, 2007 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney
Dems Sell Out on Trade Dems Sell Out on Trade
The so-called bipartisan compromise on trade is a bad deal for all who seek to reform corporate-led globalization.
May 16, 2007 / The Editors
Clowns With Kalashnikovs Clowns With Kalashnikovs
In his memoir, Régis Debray describes the evolution of his politics from his early days as a revolutionary to his later work advising the nominally socialist François...
May 10, 2007 / Books & the Arts / James Miller
MacArthur Park MacArthur Park
Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.
May 10, 2007 / The Editors
Studs Terkel, Listener Studs Terkel, Listener
In celebration of Studs Terkel's 95th birthday last year, the Nation's Deadline Poet paid tribute.
May 10, 2007 / Calvin Trillin
Laboring for Edwards Laboring for Edwards
John Edwards is meticulously laying the groundwork to become the candidate of organized labor, insisting prosperity can expand only if unionization expands.
May 10, 2007 / Marc Cooper
Morality Gets a Massage Morality Gets a Massage
Randall Tobias isn't the first abstinence czar to run afoul of the moral agenda he promoted. It's time Congress stopped this dangerous crusade.
May 10, 2007 / The Editors
The Scum Also Rises The Scum Also Rises
How else to explain why arrogant incompetents like Paul Wolfowitz rose to power in the Bush Administration?
May 9, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Philadelphia Law Philadelphia Law
The City of Philadelphia seems poised to pay the price for being an overzealous host to the GOP.
May 8, 2007 / Deb Schwartz
Sweatshop Police Sweatshop Police
The government is about to declare virtual disarmament against the lawbreakers.
May 8, 2007 / Robert J.S. Ross