FCC: It Could Get Worse FCC: It Could Get Worse
On the long list of resignations of Cabinet members, agency heads and political appointees that has accompanied the launch of the second Bush term, no member of the Administratio...
Feb 3, 2005 / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
Rebuke Gonzales and Torture Rebuke Gonzales and Torture
There is not much chance that the full Senate will block the nomination of White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to serve as Attorney General. But, as the vote approaches, critics ...
Feb 2, 2005 / John Nichols
Iraq: Images vs. Reality Iraq: Images vs. Reality
The images of Iraqis crowding polling places for that country's first free election in a half century were both moving and hopeful. The voting, while marred by violence, irregular...
Feb 1, 2005 / John Nichols
Occupation Thwarts Democracy Occupation Thwarts Democracy
Under pressure from the Bush Administration, political parties campaigning in this weekend's so-called "election" in Iraq did not proposed timetables for the withdrawal of US troo...
Jan 29, 2005 / John Nichols
Dick Durbin: Bush Fighter Dick Durbin: Bush Fighter
He can help mount an effective opposition.
Jan 27, 2005 / Feature / John Nichols
Boxer Rebellion Spreads Boxer Rebellion Spreads
Give Barbara Boxer credit for sparking the most engaged debate that the Senate has yet seen over the Bush Administration lies that led the United States into the quagmire that is ...
Jan 26, 2005 / John Nichols
An Empty Exercise in Deceit An Empty Exercise in Deceit
President Bush has not lost his flair for irony. Just as the President hit the point in his second inaugural address where he declared to the dissidents of the world that "when y...
Jan 20, 2005 / John Nichols
An Un-American Inaugural An Un-American Inaugural
The First Lady has always merited her designation as "the brighter Bush." But, clearly, she needs to study up on American history. With concern mounting about the wisdom of the B...
Jan 19, 2005 / John Nichols
Holding WMD Liars Accountable Holding WMD Liars Accountable
Now that the Bush administration has finally stopped wasting millions of tax dollars each month on the futile search for the weapons of mass destruction it promised would be found...
Jan 17, 2005 / John Nichols
MLK’s moral values MLK’s moral values
The anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. falls just five days before the second inauguration of a president who has broken faith with most of the civil righ...
Jan 15, 2005 / John Nichols