International Political Will

When you hear “third world labor exploitation,” a few standard images come to mind: sweatshops full of hungry people making Nike tennis shoes 18 hours a day for pennies in Indonesia; young mothers sewing $25 T-shirts for The Gap in return for a few cents in Honduras; children chained to a loom making carpets in [...]

First we were granted the usual denials-in-the-face-of-reality by President Bush. No recession here. The economy is strong. Why? Because the ‘decider’ said so.
Then we heard Phil Gramm tell us it was all in our heads. McCain quickly refuted his comments, but his own economic plan (the status quo is good) [...]