Fallon for Congress Fallon for Congress
Co-written by Dinelle Lucchesi. With this historic and virtually eternal Democratic presidential primary soaking up all the oxygen some of the worthiest state candidates are bein...
May 15, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
This Brave Nation This Brave Nation
Take a sneak peek at a unique new documentary series from Brave New Foundation and The Nation coming out this June. The initial series comprises five episodes featuring produ...
May 12, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Cluster Bombs Kill Kids Cluster Bombs Kill Kids
More than 100 governments, including virtually all major NATO allies, will gather in Dublin, Ireland to negotiate a global treaty banning cluster bombs on May 19. One important co...
May 9, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Food Crisis Worsens Food Crisis Worsens
Watch this appeal from Zainab Bangura, foreign minister of Sierra Leone, for international support in confronting the global food crisis. You may have noticed food costing mor...
May 1, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas
If California's historic 1950 US Senate race had gone the other way there would have been no Checkers speech, no Watergate break-in, no Woodward and Bernstein, perhaps an earlier ...
Apr 28, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Pentagon Propaganda Pundits Pentagon Propaganda Pundits
As posts on this site by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Ari Melber outline, yesterday's New York Times' front-page piece convincingly exposed the Pentagon's propaganda machine, its con...
Apr 21, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Dem Debate Blues Dem Debate Blues
If you were lucky enough to have missed Wednesday's debate, then, yes, it really was as bad as everyone is saying. Here's the transcript and here's a good video summary prepared b...
Apr 18, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
A Debate that Was Wall-to-Wall Ugly A Debate that Was Wall-to-Wall Ugly
Hopefully, last night's debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be their last one-on-one encounter. Instead of arguing over how to get out of Iraq, how to repair th...
Apr 17, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
It’s Not Just Obama’s Charisma It’s Not Just Obama’s Charisma
It's already become cliche to talk about Election 08 as a coming out party for youthful America. As anyone with even cursory interest knows, young people have been voting in the p...
Apr 15, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Stop the Violence Stop the Violence
Human Rights Watch reported on Monday that sexual violence in Darfur continues to be a constant threat for women and girls. According to HRW, the vast majority of crimes against w...
Apr 9, 2008 / Peter Rothberg