Stories by Matthew Rothschild
Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive.
The ACLU reports that agents spent 288 hours monitoring private organizing meetings, public gatherings and events held in several churches.
Posted on Jul 18, 2008
A new class of everyday spies, from paramedics to utility workers, are being recruited to be "terrorism liason officers."
Posted on Jul 9, 2008
George Bush just issued a directive to expand the acquisition of biometric information from citizens, and may share it with foreign governments.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008
Was Cemtcom Commander Fallon pushed out for opposing a new war of aggression against Iran?
Posted on Mar 24, 2008
The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they're being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can even kill without repercussion.
Posted on Feb 8, 2008
We can't worry about the budget deficit when a recession is upon us.
Posted on Jan 22, 2008
In his new book, Matt Rothschild examines how the Bush White House constructed the edifice of repression to brazenly access our private data and shred the judicial process.
Posted on Jul 24, 2007
After a myriad of stories about people being excluded from events where the President is speaking, now we know that the White House had a policy manual on just how to do so.
Posted on Jul 14, 2007
The ACLU isn’t worried about the new presidential directive, but I still am.
Posted on Jun 9, 2007
A veteran and his wife started putting up 3x5 cards on the window of the room used by recruiters in a library. Then the police came.
Posted on May 17, 2007
Over the last decade, we have been witnessing some of the most brazen acts of mortgage entrapment ever to hit the American housing market.
Posted on Apr 5, 2007
"This information is being provided only to alert commanders and staff to potential terrorist activity or apprise them of other force protection issues."
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
We have enough proof that the Bush administration is a bunch of lying evildoers. We don't need to make it up.
Posted on Sep 18, 2006
Four months after returning home from Iraq, Army reservist Jason Cooper hanged himself. And not even 'patriotic' entreaties or vandalism will stop his mother from flying the flag upside down.
Posted on Jul 18, 2006
How to fly the American flag if you want to live in Iowa.
Posted on Jul 12, 2006
The Justice Department's response to the warrantless wiretapping scandal reveals the extent of the President's delusions of grandeur.
Posted on Jan 20, 2006
Did Muammar Ali lose his place on the team because he didn't hide his religion? The coach isn't talking, and neither is the university.
Posted on Nov 23, 2005
In nominating Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, Bush gave up any pretense of being his own man.
Posted on Nov 1, 2005
Stephen Kobasa taught Catholic school for 25 years. Then he tried to remove the American flag from his classroom.
Posted on Oct 19, 2005
After a Wal-Mart employee turned in a high school student's anti-Bush poster to the police, the Secret Service came calling.
Posted on Oct 7, 2005
Robertson's assassination call not only created a PR headache for Bush, but a policy one: it's now all the more difficult for the administration to take Chávez out.
Posted on Aug 30, 2005
Two respected human rights groups say there is prima facie evidence against Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush for war crimes and torture -- and they're asking foreign governments to do something about it.
Posted on May 31, 2005
Why we should celebrate Ashcroft's resignation as attorney general, no matter who replaces him.
Posted on Nov 11, 2004
What do a software engineer, an intern, and three young men in Missouri have in common? Each has been the target of the FBI's efforts to intimidate political protesters before the party convention.
Posted on Aug 25, 2004
The former presidential contender looks back on his race and assesses the role of the media, the importance of supporting Kerry, and whether Bush would go quietly.
Posted on May 18, 2004
We're witnessing the largest crackdown on First Amendment activities since the Vietnam War.
Posted on Jan 21, 2004
A Vietnam Veteran fights for free speech in his hometown.
Posted on Oct 27, 2003
A high school teacher's classroom is raided by the police.
Posted on May 12, 2003
The film critic on Michael Moore, celebrity activists and being part of what sometimes seems to be the "last generation of Americans who took a civics class."
Posted on Apr 15, 2003
When students wanted to protest President Bush's appearance at their graduation ceremony, the university threatened them with arrest and expulsion.
Posted on Jul 15, 2002
