Don’t Let Chipotle Fool You Don’t Let Chipotle Fool You
All this week, Chipotle is seizing on the opportunity to promote its brand by sponsoring country-wide free screenings of the great new documentary Food, Inc.. There's just one pr...
Jul 15, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Stop the F-22 Stop the F-22
This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. As symbols of the overinflated military budget go, the F-22 takes the cake. The Washing...
Jul 14, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Hungry for Change Hungry for Change
With a nod to the wonderful Nation magazine feature conceived by Walter Mosley, here's a list of ten simple things you can do to help change our food system for the better, drawn ...
Jul 13, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Defining Patriotism Defining Patriotism
The first sentence of The Nation's prospectus, dated July 6, 1865, promised "the maintenance and diffusion of true democratic principles in society and government," surely a patri...
Jul 4, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Food Independence Day Food Independence Day
Thanks to the Serious Eats site for alerting me to a new July 4 campaign. Kitchen Gardeners International (the same people who successfully led the charge for a White House Kitch...
Jun 30, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Chipotle Injustice Chipotle Injustice
Last week, leaders of the food justice movement -- including Eric Schlosser, Raj Patel, Frances Moore Lappe, and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the new documentary Food, ...
Jun 29, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Time for Lunch Time for Lunch
I'll be coming back to this project but for now watch Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel announce the group's new Time for Lunch campaign to get real food into public schools. ...
Jun 26, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
WeWantThePublicOption WeWantThePublicOption
This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. Seventy-six percent of Americans, according to a recent poll, approve of the health ins...
Jun 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Food, Inc. Food, Inc.
There are no seasons in the American supermarket. In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner explains what this means as he lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the...
Jun 22, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
For Single-Payer Healthcare For Single-Payer Healthcare
This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. Healthcare reform is on everyone's mind these days. President Obama has repeatedly stre...
Jun 19, 2009 / Peter Rothberg