Bloomberg Stonewalls Bloomberg Stonewalls
Regardless of the outcome of weapons inspections, the Bush Administration seems poised to soon launch an invasion of Iraq. In response, the antiwar movement is gearing up for a se...
Feb 7, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Dubious Dossier Dubious Dossier
Speaking to the United Nations on Wednesday, in an address that was broadly portrayed as a case for war with Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell argued that, "Iraq today is acti...
Feb 7, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Rice for Peace Rice for Peace
Another antiwar action rapidly gaining supporters is the Rice for Peace program. In the 1950s, thousands of people apparently sent small bags of rice to President Eisenhower to e...
Feb 5, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Poetic Protests Against War, Censorship Poetic Protests Against War, Censorship
A bit of advice for the Bush White House: Don't pick fights with professional wordsmiths. First Lady Laura Bush's decision to cancel a White House symposium on the poetry of Walt...
Feb 3, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
No to Miguel Estrada No to Miguel Estrada
Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Miguel Estrada's appointment to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the second most powerful court in the country, is the fir...
Jan 30, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Bumbled Response Bumbled Response
When Congressional Democrats asked Governor Gary Locke of Washington state to deliver the party's response to President Bush's State of the Union address, they ceded what could ha...
Jan 29, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Congress Meets Wall Street Congress Meets Wall Street
Tonight's State of the Union address, like most, will be far more notable for what is not said, than what is. The true state of the union--genuine measures of the health of our d...
Jan 28, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
Let Inspections Work Let Inspections Work
As President Bush prepared to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he received a letter signed by more than 120 House members of the House of Representatives aski...
Jan 27, 2003 / Blog / John Nichols
Thirty Years of Freedom of Choice Thirty Years of Freedom of Choice
On the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the number of US abortion providers has fallen to its lowest level in three decades, a trend many physicians ascribe to a hostile political...
Jan 22, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg
The Dream and Beyond The Dream and Beyond
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously came out against the Vietnam War the year before he was assassinated in April, 1968. In a fitting tribute from today's Los Angeles Times, ...
Jan 20, 2003 / Blog / Peter Rothberg