Christmas for Big Media Christmas for Big Media
In less than 24 hours, Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin plans to hold a vote on rules that will let the largest media companies swallow up more local newspa...
Dec 17, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Express Yourself Express Yourself
This January 22 will mark the 35th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized the right to abortion, Roe vs. Wade. Choice USA is trying to celebrate the occ...
Dec 13, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress
Rutgers University recently hosted the latest in a series of town hall forums being conducted by the two members of the five-person Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) who ar...
Dec 6, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Renewing the Cold War Renewing the Cold War
This past June, Katrina vanden Heuvel blogged about President Bush's plan to deploy a proposed a missile defense system in both the Czech Republic and Poland despite the reluctanc...
Dec 4, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
World AIDS Day World AIDS Day
To most casual observers of AIDS, which is to say, most people who haven't known anyone afflicted with HIV, the situation seems to be improving rapidly. While this view is not wit...
Nov 30, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Unpacking Polling Unpacking Polling
Polling is an integral part of the political landscape. It's also very confusing and many credible studies suggest that polling methods are employed to bring about certain results...
Nov 26, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Nancy Nord Likes Business More Than Children Nancy Nord Likes Business More Than Children
Parents in the US these days often seem only one step from the brink of panic in the best of times. So this past August when toxic toys from China, including the enormously popula...
Nov 16, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
New Bill Could Stall Big Media New Bill Could Stall Big Media
In 2003, an unprecedented groundswell of popular opposition killed then-Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell's efforts to eliminate rules that limit the abili...
Nov 14, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
San Francisco Goes Green San Francisco Goes Green
This weekend marks the San Francisco Green Festival, the largest eco-affair in the United States. Started six years ago as an annual weekend event in the Bay Area, the Green Festi...
Nov 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Environmental Action Surges Environmental Action Surges
Mark Hertsgaard recently wrote in The Nation about the growing surge of environmental activism in the US. As he put it, "Washington's sluggish pace is calling forth a surge of act...
Nov 2, 2007 / Peter Rothberg