Chipotle Injustice Chipotle Injustice
Last week, leaders of the food justice movement -- including Eric Schlosser, Raj Patel, Frances Moore Lappe, and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the new documentary Food, ...
Jun 29, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress Honduras Coup Poses Challenges, Questions for Obama, Congress
President Obama branded as "not legal" the the military coup in Honduras, where elected President Manuel (Mel) Zelaya was kidnapped and flown out of the country by soldiers bent o...
Jun 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Time to End False Bipartisanship Time to End False Bipartisanship
God I hope David Broder is wrong. "The President has told visitors," the Washington Post columnist wrote last week, "that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill th...
Jun 28, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
House Passes “Weak” Climate Change Bill House Passes “Weak” Climate Change Bill
The American Clean Energy and Security legislation that was backed by the Obama administration and congressional Democratic leaders as a centerpiece of the drive to address climat...
Jun 27, 2009 / John Nichols
Fighting Like Hell for Healthcare Now Fighting Like Hell for Healthcare Now
At Upper Senate Park on the grounds of the US Capitol yesterday, on ahot, humid DC summer day, 10,000 people from across the country ralliedfor healthcare reform with a real publ...
Jun 26, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Time for Lunch Time for Lunch
I'll be coming back to this project but for now watch Slow Food USA president Josh Viertel announce the group's new Time for Lunch campaign to get real food into public schools. ...
Jun 26, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Wrap-up: We've got a new "Think Again" column called "Who's JailingJournalists?"here inwhich we wonder, aloud, why the United States has joined the alleged Axis of Evil in ja...
Jun 26, 2009 / Eric Alterman
Michael Jackson: Imperfect Icon Who Became America’s Global Face Michael Jackson: Imperfect Icon Who Became America’s Global Face
This is a big world, with many remote corners where America is known only as a distant and different land. But Michael Jackson touched almost all of them. The music star's death ...
Jun 25, 2009 / John Nichols
Who’s Jailing Journalists? Who’s Jailing Journalists?
Roundup: We've got a new "Think Again" column called "Who's JailingJournalists?"here inwhich we wonder, aloud, why the United States has joined the alleged Axis of Evil in ja...
Jun 25, 2009 / Eric Alterman
WeWantThePublicOption WeWantThePublicOption
This post was written by Sarah Jaffe, a blogger, freelance journalist and Nation intern. Seventy-six percent of Americans, according to a recent poll, approve of the health ins...
Jun 24, 2009 / Peter Rothberg