Sunday, Bloody Sunday Sunday, Bloody Sunday
A recent study by the non-profit Media Matters for America won't surprise Nation readers. The report, If it's Sunday, it's Conservative, demonstrates that conservative guests dram...
Feb 21, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Support Net Neutrality Support Net Neutrality
Think the Internet will always be the freewheeling, democratic information superhighway you've grown to rely on? Well, think again. Corporate media giants are working hard behind ...
Feb 10, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Bush and Blair’s Secret Pact Bush and Blair’s Secret Pact
A new memo leaked to the British media last week asserts that George Bush and Tony Blair agreed in January 2003 to go to war in Iraq--not March 2003, as they insist. It also sugge...
Feb 7, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Stop the Gag on Global Warming–UPDATED Stop the Gag on Global Warming–UPDATED
Nation readers don't need me to tell them how frantically the Bush Administration tries to avoid both transparency and accountability. On issue after issue, the Bushies have worke...
Feb 3, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Expose Exxon Expose Exxon
ExxonMobil announced on January 30 that it reaped $36 billion in profits in 2005--the largest annual profit ever by any American corporation. And, as Grist reported in its excell...
Feb 1, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Protest Bush’s SOTU Protest Bush’s SOTU
For those not tuning out the president's State of the Union speech this Tuesday night in favor of, say, the Knicks/Lakers game, there are myriad protests, panels and parties plan...
Jan 30, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Bridging Theory and Practice Bridging Theory and Practice
I'm just back from Chicago, where The Nation staged a couple of days of student-related events at the University of Chicago and Northwestern in nearby Evanston; the highlight was ...
Jan 22, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
‘Let Justice Roll Down’ ‘Let Justice Roll Down’
From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civil rights and race relations in America. His 1965 contribution was p...
Jan 16, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
RadioNation with Laura Flanders RadioNation with Laura Flanders
Lest anyone accuse me of conflict-of-interest, let me fully disclose at the outset that this post is both highly self-interested and written to introduce you to a new project with...
Jan 10, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
‘Out of Iraq’ ‘Out of Iraq’
Attacks by suicide bombers killed as many as 130 people in Iraq yesterday, rekindling fears of a return to mass sectarian killings after a relative lull. At the same general time ...
Jan 6, 2006 / Peter Rothberg