AT&T Censors Criticism of Bush AT&T Censors Criticism of Bush
Telecommunications giant AT&T says no one should worry about their aggressive lobbying to eliminate net neutrality -- the first amendment of the internet that guarantees equali...
Aug 9, 2007 / John Nichols
Farm Bill Showdown Farm Bill Showdown
As he shapes the Senate farm bill, Tom Harkin should heed progressives and forge legislation that ends subsidies and gives a fair shake to family farmers.
Aug 9, 2007 / John Nichols
Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon
Carl Bernstein will always be known as the journalist who brought down a president whose disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law disqualified the errant executive from ...
Aug 8, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush to Karzai: Will You Just Shut Up About Iran? Bush to Karzai: Will You Just Shut Up About Iran?
Things got a little testy at the Camp David Summit between Afghan President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and American President George Bush. Karzai, who when he is in the U.S. is e...
Aug 6, 2007 / John Nichols
An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption
In a Congress where it has become fashionable to gripe about earmarks of a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for small-town museums and urban parks – and, until last week, for...
Aug 5, 2007 / John Nichols
Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution
During Friday's debate in the US Senate on various proposals to alter the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Connecticut's sort-of-Democrat, sort-of-Independent, but always lo...
Aug 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect
As rescue workers continued to pull bodies out of the stretch of the Mississippi River that runs beneath the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis Thursday, U.S. Transportation Se...
Aug 2, 2007 / John Nichols
Wall Street Journal Gone Wild Wall Street Journal Gone Wild
There will be plenty of formal responses to the news that The Wall Street Journal will soon join the "stable" of Rupert Murdoch's "media properties. But few will to...
Jul 31, 2007 / John Nichols
“The President Cannot Ignore an Impeachment” “The President Cannot Ignore an Impeachment”
After months of revelations about his ham-handed attempts to politicize investigations and prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys and sections of the Department of Justice he heads, after...
Jul 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Censure and Impeachment: Take 2 Censure and Impeachment: Take 2
New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey is easily the most dogged critic of Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives, and Hinchey has not exactly been soft on Presid...
Jul 28, 2007 / John Nichols