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Freeing Up the Right to Vote
When a traffic altercation became a fistfight, Joseph Hayden laid a guy out for good and did thirteen years for manslaughter. Two college degrees later, the New York-based activist is now the public...
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Rumsfeld's Ray Gun
A tough-talking Texan named Edward Hammond has to be a key element of any accurate study of the spooky history of what the military calls the "Active Denial System."The head ofThe Sunshine Project, a...
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Don't Steal This Television
A man does thirty-five years in prison for stealing a $149 television. Case files from the gulag? Try North Carolina.In 1970, Junior Allen, a black sharecropper, walked into an unoccupied house in...
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Hugo's Helping Hand
In a stunning reversal of largesse, the global community is sending aide to a superpower humbled by mythic disaster. But before Katrina came ashore, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had already...
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We're All Patients Now
Last month, the state of Californiasued 39 drug companies for price gouging. A week earlier, a jury hit Merck & Co. witha $253 million verdict over its painkiller Vioxx, which was linked to patient...
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Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
A remorseless rapist in Hamilton County, Ohio is sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating and raping a 57-year-old woman. An environmental activist in California is sentenced to 22 years and 8...
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The NRA Takes on Gun Control -- in Brazil
Brazilians flatly rejected a plan to ban the commercial sale of firearms and ammunition in a historic national referendum on Sunday. The vote is a victory for Brazil's wealthy gun lobby which opponents...
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Patrolling America's Backyard?
A military deal between the U.S. and Paraguay has put U.S. Special Forces in the sweaty heart of South America, just south of the Tropic of Capricorn. It has also fanned fears that the Bush...
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Arrested Development
Dear Judge, I need my mom. Would you help my mom? I have no dad and my grandmom have cancer I dont have innyone to take care of me and my sisters and my niece and nephew and my birthdays coming up in...
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Exclusive: Selling the Amazon for a Handful of Beads
Scanning bookshelves in his tiny law office in Quito, Ecuador, Bolivar Beltran's disdain for Big Oil is as legible as the contracts that map their nefarious ways."These were all negotiated in secret,"...
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Changing the Drug War Debate
When Evo Morales took the office of president of Bolivia on Sunday, it was notable not only as the end of a "Bolivian-style apartheid" but also for making Morales the world's No. 1 spokesman for the...
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Google's China Syndrome
Are Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco playing Smithers to China's Emperor Burns? In recent weeks, major technology players have been accused of helping China police its internet. Yahoo helped China...
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A New Spin on Fighting for Justice
Nigeria, 1999: Government soldiers, riding in helicopters owned by Chevron Corp., fire on villages opposed to oil operations. Colombia, 1998: The Colombian Air Force, acting in the interest of...
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Bringing McCarthyism to a University Near You
Last week, during his office hours at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., professor Miguel Tinker Salas, a Venezuela-born historian and Bush administration critic, received an odd visit.It had nothing...
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Big Pharma's Deadly Experiments
A newly surfaced report alleges that in 1996, drug monolith Pfizer gave an unproven drug to Nigerian children and infants suffering from meningitis -- without the authorization of the Nigerian...
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Biopirates Walk the Plank
A National Geographic project that uses DNA to map humanity's genetic lineage is under fire from indigenous rights groups that are pressing the United Nations to halt the project.The controversy marks...
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Drinking Water Threatened: TVA Tries to Hide Information About Water...
The Tennessee Valley Authority manipulated science methods to downplay water contamination caused by a massive coal ash disaster, according to independent technical experts and critics of the federally...
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Why the Nation's Biggest Environmental Distaster May Be About to Get Worse
This is the second in a series of investigative reports on the fallout from the Tennessee coal ash spill. Research support was provided by the Puffin Foundation Investigative Fund atThe Nation...
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Big Oil Wreaks Havoc in the Amazon, But Communities Are Fighting Back
On Wednesday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments inTomas Maynas Carijano v. Occidental Petroleum, a case in which the defendant resides just miles from the...
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Unregulated Clinical Trials, Exploitation, and Profit: How the FDA Allows Big...
The following article first appeared on the Web site of The Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for its e-mail newsletters here. When her son’s diarrhea wouldn’t stop, Diana...
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