Verizon Wireless is Wrong Verizon Wireless is Wrong
Do 87 million Verizon Wireless customers know that the company is a co-sponsor of a major climate-change-denying, union-busting, pro-mountaintop removal Labor Day rally staged by...
Aug 31, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Torture Team Trading Cards Torture Team Trading Cards
Attorney General Eric Holder's recent decision to appoint prosecutor John Durham to "examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti...
Aug 27, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Save the Public Option Save the Public Option
This post was researched and co-written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. The healthcare battle is in full swing with the past month's news bei...
Aug 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Yacouba Sawadogo’s Vision Yacouba Sawadogo’s Vision
In the course of researching his forthcoming book on global warming, Living Through the Storm: How My Daughter's Generation Can Survive Climate Change, The Nation's environmental ...
Aug 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Bottled Water Sucks Bottled Water Sucks
I knew bottled water was a social ill but I didn't know how damaging it was until I saw an explosive and compelling new documentary called Tapped. With style, verve and righteou...
Aug 5, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Stolen Beauty Stolen Beauty
Ahava Beauty Products promises "beauty secrets from the Dead Sea" but the real secret is that its products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the Occupied Territory...
Jul 31, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Fed Up With Corn Fed Up With Corn
In Native American tradition, beans, squash and maize (or corn) were planted and grown together, supporting each other in their life-cycles and providing the foundation of a balan...
Jul 27, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
End the Needle Exchange Ban End the Needle Exchange Ban
This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. The drug war
Jul 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Shop Locally Shop Locally
According to the 3/50 Project, for every $100 spent in locally owned independent stores, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. If you spend ...
Jul 23, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Whitey on the Moon Whitey on the Moon
Thanks to Liliana Segura for reminding me of the great singer Gil Scott-Heron’s take on Neil Armstrong’s historic moon landing forty years ago today. Scott-Heron recor…
Jul 20, 2009 / Peter Rothberg