Fight GOP Tricks with Courage Fight GOP Tricks with Courage
Thanks to Nation writer and Occidental College professor Peter Dreier for tipping me off to the following item with which California Nation readers are likely already familiar. ...
Oct 31, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Post Office vs. the Founding Fathers The Post Office vs. the Founding Fathers
On July 15, the postal rates for America's most important political magazines, both left and right, increased by twenty to thirty percent after the Postal Regulatory Commission (P...
Oct 24, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
FCC Promotes Media Monopolies FCC Promotes Media Monopolies
As my friend and colleague John Nichols wrote last week, "Bush's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has initiated a scheme to radically rewrite media ownership rule...
Oct 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Moyers/Scahill Expose Blackwater Moyers/Scahill Expose Blackwater
Tonight, October 19, at 9:00pm (EST) on PBS, Bill Moyers will interview Nation Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill, author of the national bestseller Blackwater (Nation Books) on the ...
Oct 19, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Getting Green in DC Getting Green in DC
I'm recently back from the Green Festival in Washington, DC. Billed as the largest sustainability event in the world, the GF is a two-day extravaganza that started in San Francisc...
Oct 15, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Experts on Iraq The Experts on Iraq
Some years ago Nation patriarch Victor Navasky and his sometime collaborator in mischief Chris Cerf published The Experts Speak: The Definitive Guide to Authoritative Misinformati...
Oct 11, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Bush v. Children Bush v. Children
The State Children's Health Insurance Program was created by the federal government in 1997 to provide medical insurance coverage for children of families with annual incomes too ...
Oct 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Mellencamp’s ‘Jena’ Mellencamp’s ‘Jena’
To steal a line from an Indiana blogger, with James Brown dead, John Mellencamp may now be the hardest working man in show business. The early fall saw him headlining Farm Aid, op...
Oct 2, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Rally for Myanmar Rally for Myanmar
The latest reports from Myanmar say that soldiers are blockading Buddhist shrines and authorities are restricting phone and Internet access, as the military leadership appears at ...
Sep 30, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Monks Rebel The Monks Rebel
Updated on September 27 The situation in Myanmar (formerly Burma) continues to worsen with reports of escalating efforts by the government to violently repress ongoing nonviolent...
Sep 26, 2007 / Peter Rothberg