Dan Bartlett’s Exit Strategy Dan Bartlett’s Exit Strategy
White House counselor Dan Bartlett, the man who unwittingly confirmed that President Bush participated in discussions with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and political czar Karl...
Jun 1, 2007 / John Nichols
Meet Fred Thompson: Friend of Felons Meet Fred Thompson: Friend of Felons
Here is the latest from the front page of the Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust, the group that has been shaking down Republican donors for the money needed to maintain the convic...
May 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Cindy Sheehan’s Farewell Cindy Sheehan’s Farewell
Her unscripted activism was characterized by an element so often missing from politics: genuineness. But we haven't seen the last of Cindy Sheehan.
May 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Dick Cheney’s Dead Wrongs Dick Cheney’s Dead Wrongs
Two years ago, on May 30, 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney said of the violence in Iraq: "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." The comment came in...
May 30, 2007 / John Nichols
Cindy Sheehan Calls It Quits Cindy Sheehan Calls It Quits
The decision of Congressional Democrats to hand George Bush a blank check to maintain a war they were elected to end has frustrated a lot of Americans -- even the until-now indefa...
May 29, 2007 / John Nichols
Fighting for Democracy on Memorial Day Fighting for Democracy on Memorial Day
Memorial Day is, as former North Carolina Senator John Edwards reminds us, "a serious holiday." And this year, in particular, it falls at what Edwards rightly refers to a...
May 27, 2007 / John Nichols
John Boehner’s Crying Game John Boehner’s Crying Game
House Minority Leader John Boehner wept Thursday night, as he delivered the final Republican appeal on behalf of funding President Bush's perpetual war in Iraq. This is obviously...
May 25, 2007 / John Nichols
“A Big Mistake” Vote Gives Bush His Iraq Money “A Big Mistake” Vote Gives Bush His Iraq Money
Despite the results of last November's elections, which gave them the authority to check and balance George Bush, and despite polls that show roughly two-thirds of Americans want ...
May 25, 2007 / John Nichols
Dodd YouTubes Clinton, Obama on War Funding Dodd YouTubes Clinton, Obama on War Funding
Chris Dodd is YouTubing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama again, and this time it's serious. Indeed, the Connecticut senator is leaving no space for the Democratic presidential fro...
May 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Loyal to the White House, Not the Rule of Law Loyal to the White House, Not the Rule of Law
Regent University School of Law graduate Monica Goodling, whose meteoric rise to the highest levels of the Department of Justice puther in a position to aid and abet a program of ...
May 23, 2007 / John Nichols