Is Obama’s Race a Factor in Howard’s Attack? Is Obama’s Race a Factor in Howard’s Attack?
Why would Australian Prime Minister John Howard separate out Barack Obama from all of the other contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination -- and from all the prominent...
Feb 13, 2007 / John Nichols
America’s Not Ready to Make Nice America’s Not Ready to Make Nice
Introduced by folk-singing legend Joan Baez as "three brave women," the Dixie Chicks took the stage at the 49th annual Grammy Awards ceremony to sing their no-apologies for dissen...
Feb 12, 2007 / John Nichols
Obama’s In, Predictably Obama’s In, Predictably
The only thing about the launch of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy that wasn't meticulously stage managed was the weather. Outside the old statehouse in downtown Springfield...
Feb 10, 2007 / John Nichols
Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda
Republican apologists for the Bush administration's failed fight in Iraq and their amen corner in the media have been looking for something, anything, to distract the American pub...
Feb 9, 2007 / John Nichols
The Alternative to a Failed Status Quo The Alternative to a Failed Status Quo
President Bush and Vice President Cheney constantly claim that critics of the war have not offered an alternative to their proposals to surge deeper into the quagmire they have cr...
Feb 7, 2007 / John Nichols
Holding Bush to Account for Climate Lies, Neglect Holding Bush to Account for Climate Lies, Neglect
Viewers of Fox News, listeners to Rush Limbaugh and all the other sorry deadenders who choose Bush administration propaganda over perspective will be shocked to learn that the deb...
Feb 6, 2007 / John Nichols
States to Congress: Block War Escalation States to Congress: Block War Escalation
As the Senate struggles even to open debate on a non-binding – translation: meaningless – resolution expressing frustration with President Bush's plan to surge 21,500 more U.S...
Feb 5, 2007 / John Nichols
Compromising Compromises the Senate Compromising Compromises the Senate
If there was ever a time to embrace Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's theory that compromise undermines progress it is now. The pioneering progressive reformer of the first ...
Feb 2, 2007 / John Nichols
Biden Blunders, Again Biden Blunders, Again
The remarkable thing about Joe Biden's botched announcement of his second presidential run is not that he said something outrageously inappropriate and, if we are to assume that D...
Feb 2, 2007 / John Nichols
Father Robert Drinan, D-Constitution Father Robert Drinan, D-Constitution
When Father Robert Drinan was swept into Congress as part of the "New Politics" surge of 1970 -- which saw Democratic primary voters across the country replace pro-Vietnam War inc...
Jan 30, 2007 / John Nichols