Where To Party Where To Party
Far be it from me to jinx things but I'm not superstitious, reports are that efforts to protect voting rights are working, and the early exit polls, as imperfect as exit polling m...
Nov 4, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Voting Incidents Being Reported Nationwide Voting Incidents Being Reported Nationwide
After two years, $2.5 billion, hundreds of speeches and dozens of debates, the most historic election campaign in modern American history is finally drawing to a close. Yesterda...
Nov 4, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Combat Vote Suppression Combat Vote Suppression
This longest election campaign in American history, soon to be concluded, has seen a record number of new voters registered. In Connecticut, more than 300,000 new voters have a...
Nov 3, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Studs Terkel: Missed Studs Terkel: Missed
Oral historian, rabble-rouser and grand old man of the American left, Studs Terkel died Friday at 96. From Robert LaFollette to Barack Obama he never pulled his punches through th...
Nov 2, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Stop GOP Vote Suppression Stop GOP Vote Suppression
My friend and Nation writer Roberto Lovato has an important post today on his Of America blog. He outlines what to do before the election to safeguard against any possible dirty t...
Oct 28, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Democracy in Action Democracy in Action
Back when Karl Rove was still dreaming of a permanent Republican majority, election 08 was shaping up to be the most extensive laboratory to date for his bag of dirty tricks. In ...
Oct 24, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Video Your Vote Video Your Vote
Two weeks from today, the longest, most historic, and, perhaps, most critical presidential campaign in recent US history, will finally (we hope!) come to a conclusion as a record ...
Oct 21, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Censure Michele Bachmann Censure Michele Bachmann
On last night's episode of MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota charged Barack Obama and other members of Congress with sharing "anti-American" views. Defending th...
Oct 19, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Send the Next President to Poland Send the Next President to Poland
The United States has historically contributed more to climate change than any other nation, and over the past eight years it's done the least to curb the dangerous trends toward ...
Oct 15, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Planting the Seeds Planting the Seeds
The ACLU is offering 16 young civil liberties activists $12,500 each toward their first year in college. The winners will become part of a special class of scholar-activists, part...
Oct 14, 2008 / Peter Rothberg