House Backs Obama’s Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy House Backs Obama’s Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy
"Sometimes great presidents make mistakes," declared Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern as he announced his intention to vote against $97 billion in "emergency&q...
May 14, 2009 / John Nichols
The Case for Kenosha The Case for Kenosha
Bailouts may protect the automakers. But what about the autoworkers?
May 13, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, the insurance industry-friendly Democrat who is managing show hearings on healthcare reform, has come up with a novel way to express ...
May 12, 2009 / John Nichols
Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture
I.F. Stone used to joke that what passed for investigative journalism in Washington was actually just the restating of what was already in the public record at the appropriate tim...
May 11, 2009 / John Nichols
David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism
Fools look for a fight between newspapers and the net. The challenge is to defend print and digital journalism, in an age of big-media myopia.
May 11, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
Cheney Joins Grand Old Party of Limbaugh Cheney Joins Grand Old Party of Limbaugh
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has made himself the most prominent spokesman for the Republican establishment in recent weeks. But for the most part he has confined himself to ...
May 10, 2009 / John Nichols
A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability
The election of Barack Obama to the presidency may have caused some Democratic members of Congress to think that the constitutional questions raised by the executive excesses of t...
May 8, 2009 / John Nichols
The Year of Same-Sex Marriage! The Year of Same-Sex Marriage!
It was not necessarily supposed to be this way. After California joined the agonizingly long list of states that barred same-sex marriage following a referendum vote last year, s...
May 6, 2009 / John Nichols
Tax Haven Rhetoric Doesn’t Trump Job-Loss Reality Tax Haven Rhetoric Doesn’t Trump Job-Loss Reality
President Obama wants to close accounting loopholes for corporations that set up "tax havens" abroad. Excellent. But don't be fooled into thinking that this is a particularly s...
May 5, 2009 / John Nichols
Jack Kemp vs. the Party of No Jack Kemp vs. the Party of No
The former HUD Secretary imagined a radical Republican Party that reached out to all Americans with ideas. Too bad it didn't come to pass.
May 3, 2009 / John Nichols