Matthew Rothschild

Mohammed Omer won the Martha Gellhorn Prize. But the State Department is sitting on his visa.read more

Why did the New York Times believe it had to hire such a scoundrel? And why did we not get a full report on this relationship before?read more

The bill is still grossly inadequate, as Kucinich himself recognizes. And as Howard Zinn taught us, our job, as citizens, is not to compromise but to stand on principle.read more

Given the colossal damage the big banks have wreaked, and the systemic flaws this scandal has exposed, Congress is not responding with the requisite vigor.read more

I hate Reverend Phelps’s speech. But the First Amendment is there to protect speech that we find rude and reprehensible. Otherwise, we wouldn’t need it.read more

“There’s just no reason for them to be doing that,” says Paul Prebys, one of the founders of Alaskans for Peace & Justice. “It’s an incredible invasion of my privacy.”read more

Her shameless embrace of Honduran President Pepe Lobo puts the United States on the side of human rights abusers again.read more

On Wednesday, he exploited advocates of a single-payer health care system as a foil to say, in not so many words, “I’m not an extremist like they are.”read more

Today, there are 75% more vehicles on the road than there were in 1980, but the number of people doing enforcement at the highway traffic safety agency has gone down by 50%. The creed of anti-regulation has cost at least 56 lives in Toyota crashes.read more

“Having the feds investigate organizations on both sides of the abortion debate doesn't make us all safer: it simply victimizes more individuals' freedom and privacy rights.”read more

The bill says it will eliminate discrimination against children with preexisting conditions within six months of enactment, but adults will have to wait for this ban to take effect until 2014.read more

“When the words ‘Travel Not Authorized’ appeared on my computer screen, I instantly thought [it was] a mistake. I applied again. It took only a few hours to receive another rejection.”read more

Why can’t a news organization tell us if its own anchors have reason to fear for their lives?read more

As is his fashion, Obama justified his approval of the loan guarantees with his by-now hackneyed rhetoric about going beyond partisanship. Such rhetoric has not served him well politically so far. And now it’s fronting for a potential disaster environmentally.read more

She knew the Republicans wouldn’t let any Democratic President “turn the page” on partisanship, and she was prepared to slug it out. But not Obama.read more