Democratic Platform Should Commit to Real Reform Democratic Platform Should Commit to Real Reform
The Democratic Party will get serious about the platform-writing the process, as hearings of the 2008 convention's platform committee kick off in Cleveland. But not too serious. ...
Aug 1, 2008 / John Nichols
Rethinking the Veepstakes Rethinking the Veepstakes
The process of picking a Vice President needn't be the craven political exercise it is today. Do we even need one?
Jul 31, 2008 / John Nichols
Tim Kaine? Don’t Bet On It Tim Kaine? Don’t Bet On It
Barack Obama could do worse than Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as a ticket-mate. Kaine is a smart, articulate and principled attorney who spent much of his legal career making real...
Jul 30, 2008 / John Nichols
Bush’s Globalization Drive Crashes… Again Bush’s Globalization Drive Crashes… Again
President Bush subsumed much of his domestic-policy agenda in recent months to the project of renewing the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round. The lame-duck presid...
Jul 29, 2008 / John Nichols
A Serious Question of Character A Serious Question of Character
For many Americans, the measure of a candidate seeking the presidency comes down to questions of character. Perhaps the most important of these is: How does he or she react under...
Jul 28, 2008 / John Nichols
House Committee Considers the “I” Word House Committee Considers the “I” Word
As the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of how best to address what its chairman described as "the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush," it was one of the ranking ...
Jul 25, 2008 / John Nichols
An Opening for the Constitution An Opening for the Constitution
Thirty-four years ago this month, when the House Judiciary Committee was considering strategies for holding a lawbreaking president to account, the most determined advocate for im...
Jul 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama Sets the Right Middle East Peace Timeline Obama Sets the Right Middle East Peace Timeline
When I interviewed former President Carter about how to pursue and achieve peace in the Middle East, he made two essential points. First: "It is possible for an American Presiden...
Jul 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama’s Global Victory Lap Has McCain Desperate Obama’s Global Victory Lap Has McCain Desperate
What was John McCain thinking? Did the Republican who would be president really think that by goading Democrat Barack Obama into visiting Afghanistan and Iraq -- countries the se...
Jul 22, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama’s Wrong Turn in Afghanistan Obama’s Wrong Turn in Afghanistan
Running for president is a perilous endeavor. Candidates make mistakes. And Barack Obama is making a serious mistake this weekend. As he tours Afghanistan, the senator from Illi...
Jul 19, 2008 / John Nichols