Roberts Draws 22 Democratic Votes Roberts Draws 22 Democratic Votes
The stampede to confirm Judge John Roberts as the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court roared through the full Senate Thursday as the chamber voted 78-22 to give President...
Sep 29, 2005 / John Nichols
A Texas Lawman Indicts Tom DeLay A Texas Lawman Indicts Tom DeLay
Local lawmen don't usually involve themselves in the affairs of state. It is their job to indict crooks and put them behind bars. But when the affairs of state are corrupted by c...
Sep 28, 2005 / John Nichols
Bush Tries on the Cardigan Bush Tries on the Cardigan
"Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems -- wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once." -- Jimmy Carter, 1977 Despite the ...
Sep 27, 2005 / John Nichols
“Well-Intentioned”–And Arrested (UPDATED) “Well-Intentioned”–And Arrested (UPDATED)
Amid chants of "Arrest Bush," hundreds of antiwar activists participated in a peaceful but boisterous sit-in outside the White House Monday, as part of a day of protests that saw ...
Sep 26, 2005 / John Nichols
“Victory Means Exit Strategy” “Victory Means Exit Strategy”
It's anti-war quiz time. Who made the following statement: "I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This adm...
Sep 24, 2005 / John Nichols
Most Disappointing Vote for John Roberts Most Disappointing Vote for John Roberts
Of all the votes by Democratic senators in favor of the nomination of John Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, none is likely to be more disappointing to ...
Sep 22, 2005 / John Nichols
Wrong (Leahy) and right (Kennedy) on Roberts Wrong (Leahy) and right (Kennedy) on Roberts
Any doubts about whether the Bush administration's nominee to become the 17th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court will win the endorsement of the Senate Judiciary Committee c...
Sep 21, 2005 / John Nichols
Calling John Roberts’s Bluff Calling John Roberts’s Bluff
John Roberts, the President's nominee to become the seventeenth Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, says that the 1973 high court ruling that guaranteed a woman's right to choo...
Sep 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Accountability 101 Accountability 101
Horrified by the realization that a great many Americans see him as an uncaring Herbert Hoover, the president who forgot New Orleans attempted with his address to the nation on Th...
Sep 15, 2005 / John Nichols
Winning the Peace Winning the Peace
Antiwar Democrats in Washington are facing a moment of truth: Now is the time to raise the volume on the previously taboo discussion of a real exit strategy from Iraq.
Sep 15, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols