A Commitment to the Constitution A Commitment to the Constitution
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and MoveOn.org have launched a vital campaign to put restoration of the Constitution on the agenda for Democratic presiden...
Jul 27, 2007 / John Nichols
Impeachable Offenses Impeachable Offenses
The burgeoning movement to impeach Bush and Cheney is a rational response at a time when 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Jul 26, 2007 / John Nichols
Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire
Of all the corruptions of empire, few are darker than the claim that diplomacy must be kept secret from the citizenry. This hide-it-from-the people faith that only a cloistered g...
Jul 25, 2007 / John Nichols
Cindy Sheehan: “Challenge the Status Quo” Cindy Sheehan: “Challenge the Status Quo”
Fresh from being arrested on Capitol Hill, along with 45 other activists demanding that Congress get about the business of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan ha...
Jul 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Censure and Impeachment Censure and Impeachment
There is every reason to be enthusiastic about U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's decision to ask the Senate to consider a pair of censure resolutions condemning the President, Vice Presid...
Jul 23, 2007 / John Nichols
President Cheney — Officially President Cheney — Officially
Presuming that he could be distracted by a colonoscopy, George Bush on Saturday arranged to briefly transfer the authority of the presidency to Dick Cheney. Surely, Cheney, who h...
Jul 21, 2007 / John Nichols
Republican Hypocrite Caucus Keeps George Bush’s War Going Republican Hypocrite Caucus Keeps George Bush’s War Going
A night of debate about the war in Iraq yielded two results: 1. Limited progress on getting an honest up-or-down vote on whether to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq on a schedu...
Jul 18, 2007 / John Nichols
Don’t Fence in the Web! Don’t Fence in the Web!
The genius of the Internet, from the distant moment of its inception to the present day, has been its tendency toward openness, freedom and equality. On the great frontier of digit...
Jul 18, 2007 / John Nichols
Harry Reid Finally Starts to Fight Smart Harry Reid Finally Starts to Fight Smart
Harry Reid is finally coming to the realization reached months ago by the American people: That Democrats in Congress have been played for suckers by the Bush White House and its ...
Jul 17, 2007 / John Nichols
Cheney’s Actions Put Impeachment on the Table Cheney’s Actions Put Impeachment on the Table
Four more members of the U.S. House signed on this week as cosponsors of H. Res. 333, the measure that outlines articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney for acti...
Jul 13, 2007 / John Nichols