The current crisis has revived an old debate about the utility of economic downturns.
Christopher Hayes
Christopher Hayes is the Washington, D.C. editor of The Nation.
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A Teachable Moment
by Christopher Hayes Matt links to a McClatchy piece about how the Bush administration, in concert with the Chinese government, worked against tightening inspection and regulation of toys manufactured in China. Dog bites man, to be sure. But what’s really striking to me is how Democrats have completely failed to use the steady and growing […]
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Student Body Right
It was over cantaloupe and cottage cheese that the Lord told Pat Robertson to build a university. The year was 1975, and the minister, then 45, was running so late for a meeting that he decided to head to a nearby coffee shop, get his “famous” snack, and wait the meeting out. It was at […]
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Gun Point
CHICAGO — While George W. Bush and other world leaders fret over the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez travels the globe, talking to heads of state about the proliferation of small arms, which are currently far more deadly. “How,” he asked during a […]
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Drugstore Cowboys
It may be difficult to conceive of an American president doing more to alienate the French than George W. Bush has. But imagine, for a moment, how Paris would have reacted if, during Prohibition, Calvin Coolidge had begun paying the French government huge sums of money to burn its country’s vineyards. It seems a safe […]
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Shelf Life
When progressive provocateur Michael Moore was down and out, he found help from an unlikely source. After September 11, Moore’s publisher, HarperCollins, told him that his new book, Stupid White Men, wouldn’t be released unless he cut some controversial sections and rewrote others. When Moore balked, HarperCollins told him it would simply cancel the book. […]
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Real Conviction
CHICAGO — A survey of the capacity crowd at Northwestern University Law School’s Lincoln Hall on Saturday probably wouldn’t have yielded more than a handful of registered Republicans. The stately oak room was filled with public defenders, death-penalty abolitionists and idealistic law students, the kind of people who give money to Amnesty International, vote for […]