Where’s the Evidence? Where’s the Evidence?
Earlier this month, we followed-up Ari Berman's report about two 16 year-old Muslim girls who were arrested in New York City on specious grounds that they were potential suicide b...
May 4, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Don’t Forget May Day–UPDATED Don’t Forget May Day–UPDATED
May Day is an official holiday in 66 countries and unofficially celebrated in many more, but it is rarely recognized in the US where it began. In 1884, the Federation of Organiz...
Apr 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Nat’l Media Reform Conference Nat’l Media Reform Conference
Media reform still might not seem the sexiest topic but the people at Free Press have figured out to make the process fun. Hosts of what, by all accounts, was a fantastic and insp...
Apr 25, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Ask Dr. Frist Ask Dr. Frist
Last month, with the Terri Schiavo case at its most hyped, two physicians, who also happen to be Republican legislators, offered free medical advice in an extraordinary melding of...
Apr 21, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Detained Without Charge Detained Without Charge
Several weeks ago, two 16 year-old Muslim girls, one from Bangladesh and the other from Guinea, were arrested in New York City on the specious grounds that they were potential sui...
Apr 13, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Say No to Bankruptcy Bill Say No to Bankruptcy Bill
As early as Wednesday, your Representative in Congress will vote on a hugely important "Debt Slavery" Bankruptcy Bill (S. 256) that could literally change your life. The bill was ...
Apr 5, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
‘Wrong Man for the Position’ ‘Wrong Man for the Position’
Adding a powerful establishment voice to the growing campaign against George Bush's appointment of John Bolton to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations, a group of 59 fo...
Mar 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Two Years Later Two Years Later
Last week we featured a series of of antiwar events being planned by Nation readers in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and in Memphis, Tennessee to mark this weekend's second an...
Mar 17, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Without DeLay! Without DeLay!
We've spent considerable time at The Nation detailing the increasingly muddy ethics trail being traveled by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. And, every day, new details come out ...
Mar 15, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Antiwar Events Coast to Coast Antiwar Events Coast to Coast
Yesterday we featured the peace concert being planned by Nation reader and bassist Brandon Kwiatek in Allentown, Pennsylvania on March 19, which will conclude a series of antiwar ...
Mar 3, 2005 / Peter Rothberg