Ratify CIFTA Ratify CIFTA
Co-written and researched by Corbin Hiar. In a joint press conference with Mexico's president Philippe Calderon, President Obama recently threw his support behind the Inter-Ameri...
Apr 27, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Let’s Banish Larry Summers Let’s Banish Larry Summers
Yesterday, the Washington Post's excellent Sunday Outlook section featured a "Spring Cleaning Special" in which ten writers were given the chance to make the case for something th...
Apr 20, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Legalize Industrial Hemp Legalize Industrial Hemp
It's hard to talk about hemp without hippie jokes but the plant is actually one of the world's most versatile crops, and has been used for centuries as a foodstuff, fabric, and fi...
Apr 15, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Screw Seth Rogen Screw Seth Rogen
Is date rape funny? Seth Rogen and his crew apparently think so. Watch this video from Feministing.com for the far-from-comic story. Even actress Anna Faris, Rogen's fictional ...
Apr 10, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
“One Thing” “One Thing”
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and this year, Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services and the Victim/Survivor Advisory Council are making it easy to take a critical f...
Apr 9, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
A New Way Forward A New Way Forward
What seems most immediately alarming about the bailouts and the $787 billion stimulus, write Leo Hindery and Donald Riegle in the April 20 issue of The Nation, are the countless i...
Apr 7, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Ban Cluster Bombs Ban Cluster Bombs
On March 10th Congress passed an omnibus budget bill that created a permanent ban on nearly all US cluster bomb exports. The legislation states that cluster munitions can only be ...
Mar 30, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
John Hope Franklin, RIP John Hope Franklin, RIP
I was a history major in college so I'm especially saddened when any great historian dies. But John Hope Franklin, who passed away this morning at the age of 94, was far more than...
Mar 25, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Get Real on Sex Ed Get Real on Sex Ed
There's an under-reported health care crisis brewing in this country: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study reports at least one in four teenage girls -- ages 14 to 1...
Mar 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Stop Mountaintop Removal Stop Mountaintop Removal
In the United States, 100 tons of coal are extracted every two seconds. Around 70 percent of that coal comes from strip mines, and over the last 20 years, an increasing amount com...
Mar 17, 2009 / Peter Rothberg