Attorney General Bruce Fein Attorney General Bruce Fein
It is likely -- though not entirely certain in these tumultuous times for the dangerously adrift Bush-Cheney administration -- that the next Attorney General of the United States ...
Aug 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Gonzales Goes But Investigation Must Continue Gonzales Goes But Investigation Must Continue
Facing the prospect of increasingly aggressive congressional inquiries into his politicization of the Department of Justice, as well as an energetic House push for his impeachment...
Aug 27, 2007 / John Nichols
GOP Attacks John Warner for Failing to Echo George Bush GOP Attacks John Warner for Failing to Echo George Bush
Here is how things work today at the top levels of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. One of the Republican party's most prominent senators, a fo...
Aug 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush Versus I.F. Stone… and Eisenhower Bush Versus I.F. Stone… and Eisenhower
Something tells me that President Bush did not write the speech he gave today to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City. For one thing, it was relatively coherent. ...
Aug 22, 2007 / John Nichols
Cheney Opts for Monarchy Cheney Opts for Monarchy
Dick Cheney has left little doubt about the branch of government he would prefer to serve in: the monarchy. Unfortunately, as a citizen of a republic that rejected the divine righ...
Aug 22, 2007 / John Nichols
For Rove to Imply He Didn’t Leak Plame’s Identity Is “Nonsense” For Rove to Imply He Didn’t Leak Plame’s Identity Is “Nonsense”
Karl Rove is working feverishly to rewrite history in the few remaining days before he is no longer taking taxpayer money to do the political work of the Bush-Cheney administration...
Aug 20, 2007 / John Nichols
Obama Attacked for Being Right About Afghanistan Obama Attacked for Being Right About Afghanistan
The Republican National Committee has for some time now made itself the mouthpiece for extreme pro-war rhetoric, despite the fact that substantial numbers of Republicans – some ...
Aug 19, 2007 / John Nichols
The Worst House Speaker in American History The Worst House Speaker in American History
Dennis Hastert, who served eight years as the most lamentable Speaker of the House in the chamber's history, began a slow exit from the Congress Friday. It was on that day that th...
Aug 16, 2007 / John Nichols
Karl Rove: The Machiavelli Who Failed Karl Rove: The Machiavelli Who Failed
Karl Rove's never-particularly brilliant career as a manipulator of the political processes of the nation will end as it began: mired in scandal and failure. As a brash 26-year-o...
Aug 13, 2007 / John Nichols
Dr. King’s Candidate Dr. King’s Candidate
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. did not make many political endorsements. As the most recognized leader of a civil rights movement that enjoyed support from both Democrats and ...
Aug 12, 2007 / John Nichols