This Day, Like the Future, Belongs to Patriots This Day, Like the Future, Belongs to Patriots
As the 50th anniversary of America's revolution against colonialism and the divine right of kings approached, the author of the rebellion's founding document -- still alive at age...
Jul 4, 2008 / John Nichols
AFL’s Trumka: Labor Must Battle Racism to Elect Obama AFL’s Trumka: Labor Must Battle Racism to Elect Obama
The United Steelworkers union is holding its annual convention this week. Union conventions in presidential election years invariably deal with presidential politics, and this one...
Jul 2, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama Read Zimbabwe Right… More Than a Year Ago Obama Read Zimbabwe Right… More Than a Year Ago
The world is suddenly paying a measure of the attention that is necessary to the democratic crisis in Zimbabwe, where strongman President Robert Mugabe has used violence and intim...
Jun 29, 2008 / John Nichols
Sign on for the Bill of Rights Sign on for the Bill of Rights
After the Patriot Act became law, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) began a national campaign to get cities, counties and states to stand up for the Constitution. Than...
Jun 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Feingold, Dodd Take Steps to Filibuster FISA Feingold, Dodd Take Steps to Filibuster FISA
U.S. Senators Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, and Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, will take steps to filibuster a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform proposal that provides...
Jun 25, 2008 / John Nichols
George Carlin: American Radical George Carlin: American Radical
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.-- George Carlin, The last vote that George Carlin said he cast in a presiden...
Jun 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Democrats Write a Blank Check for Bush’s War Democrats Write a Blank Check for Bush’s War
George Bush, who has never chosen to take responsibility for addressing the mess he created in Iraq, has now been given permission by the U.S. House to finish his presidency witho...
Jun 22, 2008 / John Nichols
McClellan: Administration ‘Has Chosen to Conceal’ Truth McClellan: Administration ‘Has Chosen to Conceal’ Truth
Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan told Congress Friday that the Bush-Cheney Administration continues to conceal information about abuses of power committed to punish fo...
Jun 20, 2008 / John Nichols
Obama Goes Soft on Free Trade Obama Goes Soft on Free Trade
Republican John McCain is most militantly pro-free trade presidential candidate. That fact, alone, should guarantee his defeat in Ohio and other industrial states where his strate...
Jun 18, 2008 / John Nichols
Get Me Rewrite: NYT Spins for McCain Get Me Rewrite: NYT Spins for McCain
Recalling the worst of Judith Miller's reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the New York Time ran one of its "fair and balanced" stories on the presidential race Mond...
Jun 18, 2008 / John Nichols