The Most Valuable Progressives The Most Valuable Progressives
Let down by a dangerous Republican White House, a compromising Democratic Congress and a distracting and dysfunctional mainstream media, progressives persevered in 2007, laying th...
Dec 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Oprah Winfrey versus John Mellencamp Oprah Winfrey versus John Mellencamp
DES MOINES -- The announcement of John Mellencamp's Wednesday night show to cap the Iowa caucus campaign of John Edwards did not provoke the media frenzy that accompanied Oprah Wi...
Dec 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush, Musharraf and the Slaying of Benazir Bhutto Bush, Musharraf and the Slaying of Benazir Bhutto
Minutes before she was assassinated in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto told a rally in Rawalpindi that, "I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this c...
Dec 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time
Much was made of Illinois Senator Barack Obama's superb speech to a huge crowd of Iowa Democrats at the mid-November Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines. Without a doubt, i...
Dec 26, 2007 / John Nichols
“On the Side of the Rebel Jesus” “On the Side of the Rebel Jesus”
The finest Christmas songs are never just Christmas songs. Though linked by reference of sentiment to the Christmastide, they are sufficiently universal in their themes to have m...
Dec 24, 2007 / John Nichols
FCC Votes for Monopoly, Congress Must Vote for Democracy FCC Votes for Monopoly, Congress Must Vote for Democracy
The Federal Communications Commission has, as expected, voted along party lines to approve the demand of Rupert Murdoch and other communications-industry moguls for a loosening of...
Dec 18, 2007 / John Nichols
A Political Fight Brews Over FCC Rule Changes A Political Fight Brews Over FCC Rule Changes
No matter what the Federal Communications Commission does today with regard to media ownership -- and it is likely to do the wrong thing -- members of Congress are ready to push b...
Dec 18, 2007 / John Nichols
House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings
Three senior members of the House Judiciary Committee have called for the immediate opening of impeachment hearings for Vice President Richard Cheney. Democrats Robert Wexler of ...
Dec 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism Clinton, Obama, Drugs and the Politics of Cynicism
There are plenty of what might charitably be referred to as "unsavory" characters associated with the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, who tends to attract the seamy poli...
Dec 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Playing the God Card Playing the God Card
It's not Romney's Mormon faith that threatens the core values of a secular nation. It's Huckabee's messianic candidacy.
Dec 13, 2007 / John Nichols