Where’s the Evidence? Where’s the Evidence?
Earlier this month, we followed-up Ari Berman's report about two 16 year-old Muslim girls who were arrested in New York City on specious grounds that they were potential suicide b...
May 4, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
Making Iraq the Issue Making Iraq the Issue
The US media barely covers the world anymore – except stories that involve those countries that the administration is actively considering attacking and, of course, those lands ...
May 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Don’t Forget May Day–UPDATED Don’t Forget May Day–UPDATED
May Day is an official holiday in 66 countries and unofficially celebrated in many more, but it is rarely recognized in the US where it began. In 1884, the Federation of Organiz...
Apr 29, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
WashU Comes Correct WashU Comes Correct
Sweet Victory In the wake of the sweet victory at Georgetown--the result of a remarkable two-week hunger strike--students across the country sprung into a "Week of Action" for wo...
Apr 29, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Open Letter to Howard Dean Open Letter to Howard Dean
"Now that we're there, we're there and we can't get out," Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center on ...
Apr 28, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Be Careful What You Pray For Be Careful What You Pray For
I don't claim to be as good at interpreting the apocalyptic signs of Revelations as the Christian right or the entertainment executives at NBC, but there are portents that The Lor...
Apr 27, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Fight for the Filibuster Fight for the Filibuster
Never underestimate the determination of Washington Democrats to try and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Just as it was reported Tuesday that Americans strongly support t...
Apr 26, 2005 / John Nichols
Nat’l Media Reform Conference Nat’l Media Reform Conference
Media reform still might not seem the sexiest topic but the people at Free Press have figured out to make the process fun. Hosts of what, by all accounts, was a fantastic and insp...
Apr 25, 2005 / Peter Rothberg
‘Bad Religion, Bad Politics’ ‘Bad Religion, Bad Politics’
I'm writing this on the eve of "Justice Sunday"--a telecast being promoted by evangelical Christian conservatives who charge that Democrats opposing President Bush's judicial nomi...
Apr 25, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Sweet Environmental Victories Sweet Environmental Victories
In many ways, this Earth Day is a particularly somber occasion. After all, in the past year, we've seen repeated environmental debacles--most notably, the decision to open the Arc...
Apr 21, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel