John Nichols

National Affairs Correspondent

@NicholsUprising

John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic Party to analyses of US and global media systems. His latest, cowritten with Senator Bernie Sanders, is the New York Times bestseller It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.

Congress Rebuffs the FCC Congress Rebuffs the FCC

The revolution may, in fact, be televised--and on C-Span, no less.

Jul 31, 2003 / John Nichols

Media Giants Get Slapped Media Giants Get Slapped

In an unprecedented rebuff to the agenda of big media, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved by a 400-21 vote an appropriations bill that includes languarge blocking ...

Jul 23, 2003 / John Nichols

Blair’s Crisis, Bush’s Crisis Blair’s Crisis, Bush’s Crisis

Only hours after British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a cheering US Congress that history would forgive the United States and Great Britain for using dubious data to make the ca...

Jul 19, 2003 / John Nichols

Checks and Balances Anyone? Checks and Balances Anyone?

When it was proposed during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the sole power "to make war" be vested in the Congress, the measure carried overwhelmingly. Only one delegat...

Jul 10, 2003 / John Nichols

Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill Bottom of the Ninth on Capitol Hill

The American people have already changed the character of the debate over media consolidation and monopoly. Now, they may well be on the verge of winning a historically unpreceden...

Jul 8, 2003 / John Nichols

Early Returns Early Returns

More people voted in the wwww.MoveOn.org PAC online presidential primary than are expected to participate in next January's Democratic caucuses in Iowa and t

Jul 2, 2003 / John Nichols

Dean, Kucinich, Kerry Top MoveOn Vote Dean, Kucinich, Kerry Top MoveOn Vote

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean's scored another publicity coup this week, finishing a solid first in the MoveOn.org PAC online primary that became a high-stakes test of the a...

Jun 27, 2003 / John Nichols

Moving on Media Reform Moving on Media Reform

It's no secret that Washington has a limited interest in the public interest these days.

Jun 26, 2003 / John Nichols

Judge Resigns Over Congressional Meddling Judge Resigns Over Congressional Meddling

The announcement this week by U.S. District Judge John S. Martin of the Southern District of New York that he would leave the bench because he was fed up with Congressional meddli...

Jun 25, 2003 / John Nichols

Senate Committee Rebukes FCC Senate Committee Rebukes FCC

When the Federal Communications Commission voted June 2 to remove key restrictions on media consolidation, dissident Commissioner Michael Copps warned, "This Commission's drive to...

Jun 19, 2003 / John Nichols

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