Hilda Solis Under Fire Hilda Solis Under Fire
Yesterday my friend and colleague Ari Berman sent me a link to an Atlantic post by Marc Ambinder detailing GOP plans to hold up the confirmation of Labor Secretary-designate Hilda...
Feb 5, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
The Right is Winning Today The Right is Winning Today
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, currently being debated in the Senate, was passed last week by the House of Representatives. If enacted, the economic recovery plan wil...
Feb 3, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
CIW to Crist: End Slavery CIW to Crist: End Slavery
At The Nation we've written a lot about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The CIW is a worker's organization comprised chiefly of Latino, Haitian and Mayan Indian immigrants who...
Jan 28, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Pete Seeger for the Nobel Pete Seeger for the Nobel
This past Sunday, Pete Seeger became the oldest person to perform publicly as part of Barack Obama's inauguration festivities. Singing the "greatest song about America ever writ...
Jan 20, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
MLK’s Grassroots Legacy MLK’s Grassroots Legacy
From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civil rights and race relations in America. His 1965 contribution, "...
Jan 18, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Justice for Oscar Grant Justice for Oscar Grant
From Rodney King to Sean Bell, recent American history has seen far too many examples of police brutality directed against people (usually men) of color. Rarely though, has there ...
Jan 14, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
‘Get Afghanistan Right’ Week ‘Get Afghanistan Right’ Week
The biggest concern about Barack Obama's foreign policy is probably his hawkishness on Afghanistan. Since early in the primary campaign he has consistently taken the position that...
Jan 12, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Allow Media into Gaza Allow Media into Gaza
As America's leaders knew at least as far back as Thomas Jefferson, a functioning media is critical to the informed citizenry necessary for a working democracy. That was the parti...
Jan 5, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
War in Gaza War in Gaza
Since Saturday, Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 325 people, including civilians and children, according to a wide range of sources. The attacks have lef...
Dec 29, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Justice in New Orleans Justice in New Orleans
In an 18-month investigation appearing this week on the cover of The Nation (directed and underwritten by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute), reporter A.C. Thompson p...
Dec 19, 2008 / Peter Rothberg