Can the Public Option Be Saved? Can the Public Option Be Saved?
Outside Washington, there is still a sense that a serious debate about healthcare reform is going on. In Washington, there is a good deal of fear among informed and engaged progr...
Sep 29, 2009 / John Nichols
William Safire: Conservative Critic of Media Monopoly William Safire: Conservative Critic of Media Monopoly
Bill Safire and I disagreed on more issues than we agreed. It's like that with former Nixon speechwriters and Nation scribes. But Safire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Tim...
Sep 28, 2009 / John Nichols
MoveOn Calls for Afghanistan Exit Strategy MoveOn Calls for Afghanistan Exit Strategy
The online activist group MoveOn.org, which experienced its mostexplosive growth when it emerged as a focal point for opposition to thewar in Iraq, has been criticized for failin...
Sep 25, 2009 / John Nichols
Senate-Pick Kirk ‘s Insurance, Drug-Industry “Conflicts” Senate-Pick Kirk ‘s Insurance, Drug-Industry “Conflicts”
On Friday, former Democratic National Committee chair Paul Kirk cleared what was probably his last legal hurdle to become the selected-not-elected "temporary senator" from Massach...
Sep 25, 2009 / John Nichols
Obama At the UN: Think of Me as FDR, Not Bush Obama At the UN: Think of Me as FDR, Not Bush
Distancing himself from George Bush and embracing the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt -- to the point of quoting the 32nd president on the need for "the cooperative effort of the who...
Sep 23, 2009 / John Nichols
G20 Schemes Threaten Democracy, Sustainability G20 Schemes Threaten Democracy, Sustainability
PITTSBURGH – The G20 Summit that opens Thursday is unlikely to achieve much when it comes to restructuring the global economic order. That's good news for workers, farmers, cons...
Sep 23, 2009 / John Nichols
Kennedy Family Pick Paul Kirk Is New Massachusetts Senator Kennedy Family Pick Paul Kirk Is New Massachusetts Senator
Rejecting prospects who had sought and won statewide office, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has selected a veteran political insider, former Democratic National Committee ch...
Sep 23, 2009 / John Nichols
What Obama Should Be Saying About a Public Option What Obama Should Be Saying About a Public Option
President Obama did all the Sunday morning talk shows, as part of a ramped-up campaign to promote his sincere if ill-defined belief that health care should be reformed, and he con...
Sep 21, 2009 / John Nichols
AFL-CIO’s Trumka Embraces All Workers — Including Immigrants AFL-CIO’s Trumka Embraces All Workers — Including Immigrants
Richard Trumka's great strength as a leader of the AFL-CIO has always been his willingness to challenge this country labor movement to be better not just than its past but also it...
Sep 19, 2009 / John Nichols
Saving Social Security From the Benefit Cutters Saving Social Security From the Benefit Cutters
Conservative critics of all things governmental love to talk about "saving Social Security." But they use the term "saving" in the Orwellian sense. Conservative plans to "save,"...
Sep 17, 2009 / John Nichols