Gitmo’s Shame Gitmo’s Shame
You would hardly know it from watching the news or reading the papers, but there's a two-month-old hunger strike going on at Guantánamo Bay. After more than three years of intern...
Oct 5, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Support the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act Support the Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act
"Crony capitalism," Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer writes this week, "is the name of the Republican game." Scheer couldn't be more correct. The headline of the lead bu...
Sep 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Marching for Withdrawal (UPDATED) Marching for Withdrawal (UPDATED)
(The verdict is in! Scroll below for an update on the St. Patrick's Day Four trial.) Tens of thousands of protesters rallied on Saturday in Washington and other US and European c...
Sep 25, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
One More Time–UPDATED One More Time–UPDATED
Scroll down for a new update on the St. Patrick's Day Four Trial. As antiwar sentiment keeps broadening and calls for withdrawal become more and more mainstream, this weekend's a...
Sep 21, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Support the St. Patrick’s Day Four Support the St. Patrick’s Day Four
On March 17, 2003, two days before the US invasion of Iraq commenced, four protesters--now known as the "Saint Patrick's Four"--entered a military recruiting center near Ithaca, N...
Sep 16, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
The Stakes in Roberts’s Nomination The Stakes in Roberts’s Nomination
In the first few days of John G. Roberts, Jr.'s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, most Senators have focused their questions on his views of privacy, precedent and ...
Sep 14, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
The Victims of Hurricane Katrina The Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Numerous Nation readers have written us asking for suggestions on where they can send funds to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. For straight donations, the American Red...
Sep 2, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Leave My Child Alone Leave My Child Alone
In the new issue of The Nation, Karen Houppert investigates how the US military has gone beyond trying to recruit tenth, eleventh and twelfth graders and is now actively chasing c...
Aug 25, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Sheehan Protest Grows Sheehan Protest Grows
Candlelight vigils calling for an end to the war in Iraq got underway Wednesday night in a national effort spurred by one mother's antiwar demonstration in Crawford, Texas, outsid...
Aug 18, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Support Cindy Sheehan–UPDATED Support Cindy Sheehan–UPDATED
There are many reasons why Cindy Sheehan is attracting a flood of media attention. The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, Sheehan is camping out near President Bush's ranch in Cr...
Aug 10, 2005 / Peter Rothberg