Public to Dems: Investigate Onward! Public to Dems: Investigate Onward!
Pontificators of conventional wisdom in Washington have been warning Democrats not to overreach in their probe of why 8 US Attorneys were unexpectedly fired last December. "It see...
Mar 27, 2007 / The Nation
Getting Serious About the “I” Word Getting Serious About the “I” Word
Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough had me on his MSNBC show tonight to talk about impeachment. It was smart, civil discussion that treated the prospect of impeaching t...
Mar 27, 2007 / John Nichols
No Special Rights No Special Rights
Nonbinding this and that, deadline lah-di-dah, Bush/Cheney are going to ignore the mandate of the midterm elections and every pressure from Congress on Iraq, because Bush/Cheney k...
Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation
Right about Iraq, Written Out of the Story Right about Iraq, Written Out of the Story
Among the missing-in-action of these last years are all those Americans who went out into the streets before the invasion of Iraq began, part of the largest global antiwar demonst...
Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation
We’re Winning We’re Winning
There's been a lot of evidence recently that the Bush administration is causing (or perhaps amplifying) an ideological shift among the American public away from Reagan/Gingrich co...
Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation
From Havana With Hypocrisy From Havana With Hypocrisy
Most leaders of totalitarian states do not display much humor in public. But Ricardo Alarcon, the president of Cuba's National Assembly, has a flair for sat...
Mar 26, 2007 / David Corn
Markey’s Big Chance Markey’s Big Chance
Two weeks ago, Representative Ed Markey was appointed chair of the new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The committee has no legislative role but it do...
Mar 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Crowdsourcing Elizabeth Edwards Crowdsourcing Elizabeth Edwards
John and Elizabeth Edwards' decision to continue his presidentialbid, despite learning that Ms. Edwards was diagnosed with incurablebut treatable cancer, has sparked impassioned d...
Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation
Lying to Congress Lying to Congress
Note to future Capitol Hill witnesses: it's a crime to lie to Congress, even if you're not under oath. Stephen Griles, the former number two official at the Department of Interio...
Mar 26, 2007 / The Nation
Republicans Detect “Cloud” Over Gonzales Republicans Detect “Cloud” Over Gonzales
What do the following statements about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- the embattled presidential appointee at the center of a growing scandal over the firing of U.S. Attorne...
Mar 26, 2007 / John Nichols