Socialists Take Over Congress (A GOP Fairy Tale) Socialists Take Over Congress (A GOP Fairy Tale)
Alabama Congressman Spencer Bachus, who despite an uncanny naivete regarding matters economic is the ranking Republican on the powerful House Financial Services Committee, is all ...
Apr 12, 2009 / John Nichols
Ahoy, Obama! They’s Pirates Aplenty in These Waters Ahoy, Obama! They’s Pirates Aplenty in These Waters
Forget the economy! Vice President Joe Biden says the White House is working "around the clock" on the problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and on the Indian Ocean. Asked by a ...
Apr 9, 2009 / John Nichols
Springtime for Marriage Equality: First Iowa, Now Vermont, DC Springtime for Marriage Equality: First Iowa, Now Vermont, DC
In spring, they say, human hearts incline toward love. And from the Midwest to New England, the love that once dared not speak its name is being formally recognized and celebrated...
Apr 7, 2009 / John Nichols
House Members to Obama: Rethink Afghanistan Surge House Members to Obama: Rethink Afghanistan Surge
Congressional Democrats and Republicans are signing on to a letter urging President Obama to reconsider his plan to surge tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops into Afghanis...
Apr 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Referendum on Obama Policies Yields a Virtual Tie Referendum on Obama Policies Yields a Virtual Tie
The most closely-watched election test yet faced by the young Obama administration has yielded an inconclusive result with 100 percent of the vote counted. In the upstate New Yor...
Apr 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Auto Gets Tough Love, While Wall Street Feels the Love Auto Gets Tough Love, While Wall Street Feels the Love
Of course, General Motors CEO Rick Rick Wagoner was incapable of running a major auto company. Aside from a name that sounded like a Jeep model, Wagoner brought nothing to the Ame...
Mar 31, 2009 / John Nichols
A J’accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence A J’accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence
President Obama went on CBS News' "Face the Nation" Sunday to make the case for his great big war in Afghanistan. The good news is that Obama says, "What I will not do is to simp...
Mar 29, 2009 / John Nichols
O’Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed Back O’Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed Back
After ThinkProgress.org's managing editor Amanda Terkel wrote a blog entry critical of Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, the bloviator-in-chief sent a producer, Jesse Watters, to sta...
Mar 27, 2009 / John Nichols
LGBT Victory — With an Emphasis on T — in Gainseville LGBT Victory — With an Emphasis on T — in Gainseville
"I love this town," Gainesville City Commissioner Craig Lowe shouted to cheering supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the north-central Florida city that...
Mar 25, 2009 / John Nichols
Mr. Cheney, What About This ‘Executive Assassination Squad’? Mr. Cheney, What About This ‘Executive Assassination Squad’?
Dick Cheney is not going to fade away. George Bush may have retreated to Texas to clear brush and ponder how things went so horribly wrong. But Cheney, who failed out of the univ...
Mar 23, 2009 / John Nichols