Death Squad Diplomat Death Squad Diplomat
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee started hearings today on John Negroponte's appointment to the Baghdad embassy, a post that he would assume on June 30, when sovereignty w...
Apr 27, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
DC Rally Draws Historic Crowd DC Rally Draws Historic Crowd
In one of the biggest demonstrations in US history, more than one million protesters crowded the National Mall this afternoon to show support for reproductive rights and oppositi...
Apr 26, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Marching for Women’s Lives Marching for Women’s Lives
As the inimitable Molly Ivins wrote in her syndicated column today, this Sunday's March for Women's Lives "is not just about choice on abortion but literally about life or deat...
Apr 21, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Voting to Help President Bush Voting to Help President Bush
At last night's press conference, President Bush was asked if he could name his biggest mistake in office. At first he said, "I'm sure something will pop into my head here." Bu...
Apr 14, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
An Out-of-Control Occupation An Out-of-Control Occupation
As Anthony Shadid detailed in the Washington Post today, the US Marine siege of Fallujah has produced a powerful backlash in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq. Hospitals report as man...
Apr 13, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
The Burden of Conscience The Burden of Conscience
Since the US invaded Iraq last year, hundreds of American soldiers have broken the law and abandoned their units on the battlefield. And, as Dan Frosch writes in Alternet, the G...
Mar 31, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
One Year Later–Not Feeling Safer One Year Later–Not Feeling Safer
Local media is reporting that hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters poured into streets around the globe on Saturday's one-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq to deman...
Mar 20, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
One Year Later One Year Later
On the heels of yesterday's car-bomb attack against a central Baghdad hotel, Iraqi insurgents launched more deadly attacks today in advance of the first anniversary of the US inv...
Mar 18, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Time to Turn the Paige Time to Turn the Paige
At a meeting with the nation's governors last month, George W. Bush's Education Secretary, Rodney Paige, called the National Education Association (NEA) a "terrorist organization...
Mar 15, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Bush’s Backfiring Ad Campaign Bush’s Backfiring Ad Campaign
Most political observers expected the Bush/Cheney re-election ads to begin by branding Bush as the 9/11 candidate. The only surprise, as John Nichols points out in his latest web...
Mar 6, 2004 / Peter Rothberg