Money for Lefties Money for Lefties
The right has been generously funding conservative student activists for years. On the other side, the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund is currently taking applications for grants f...
Feb 27, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Fox Attacks Fox Attacks
Guerrilla documentarian Robert Greenwald and his Brave New Films team have been in the forefront of pioneering innovative ways to fund, produce and distribute progressive and time...
Feb 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Lefty Film of the Year Lefty Film of the Year
This year has been a bonanza for films and documentaries of the lefty variety. It's not something the Academy is interested in but if they gave an Oscar for the year's best progre...
Feb 21, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Rich Get Greedier The Rich Get Greedier
Most Nation readers couldn't have missed ExxonMobil's recent announcement that in 2006 it reaped the largest annual profits of any corporation in history--39.5 billion dollars. B...
Feb 9, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Molly’s Pledge Molly’s Pledge
Read John Nichols' tribute to Molly Ivins, who died on wednesday. Many Nation readers know that the inimitable, invaluable, iconoclastic columnist Molly Ivins has been battling c...
Jan 30, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Surge for Peace Surge for Peace
Read John Nichols' dispatch and Karen Houppert's analysis from Saturday's antiwar march, and watch TheNation.com for further reporting on this weekend's antiwar activities. The N...
Jan 26, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Protesting the War Protesting the War
On Saturday, January 27 there will be a major mobilization in Washington, DC against the war in Iraq organized by United for Peace and Justice. The idea is to show Congress that A...
Jan 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Iraq Veterans Memorial The Iraq Veterans Memorial
Americans voted their disapproval of the President's Iraq strategy in November, yet as we approach the fourth anniversary of Bush's invasion, he has chosen to escalate the conflic...
Jan 18, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Smithfield Shames Dr. King Smithfield Shames Dr. King
Workers at the world's largest pork plant say they will either skip work or walk out in protest on Monday at the company's denial of their request for a day off with pay on the na...
Jan 13, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Iraq Protests Planned Nationwide Iraq Protests Planned Nationwide
As John Nichols reports in The Online Beat, White House counselor Dan Bartlett has told the press that President Bush will announce tonight that he plans to commit an additional 2...
Jan 10, 2007 / Peter Rothberg