Media Meltdown Obscures FCC Debate Media Meltdown Obscures FCC Debate
As if there was need for more evidence that major media is neglecting to cover Federal Communications Commission deliberations on whether to fundamentally alter media ownership ru...
Feb 28, 2003 / John Nichols
Exit Phil Donahue Exit Phil Donahue
The day before MSNBC announced that it was pulling the plug on Phil Donahue's nightly show, the man who pretty much invented talk TV was interviewing actress and author Rosie O'D...
Feb 26, 2003 / John Nichols
Echoing Wellstone on War, Activism Echoing Wellstone on War, Activism
When hundreds of labor, academic and community activists gathered in a City University of New York's graduate school auditorium this week to honor the memory of Paul and Sheila We...
Feb 26, 2003 / John Nichols
Kucinich’s Antiwar Bid Kucinich’s Antiwar Bid
Three days after he sued the President to force a Congressional vote on whether to attack Iraq, and one day after hundreds of thousands of antiwar demonstrators in New York che...
Feb 20, 2003 / John Nichols
‘The Whole World Is Against This War’ ‘The Whole World Is Against This War’
"The whole world is against this war. Only one person wants it," declared South African teenager Bilqees Gamieldien as she joined a Cape Town antiwar demonstration on a weekend wh...
Feb 14, 2003 / John Nichols
Filibustering on Estrada Filibustering on Estrada
Few of George W. Bush's judicial nominees have generated as much opposition as has Miguel Estrada.
Feb 13, 2003 / John Nichols
Dems Move to Block Estrada Dems Move to Block Estrada
Setting up what could be the boldest challenge yet to the Bush administration's drive to pack the nation's courts with conservative judicial activists, Senate Democrats have signa...
Feb 12, 2003 / John Nichols
Aussies Aboard? Not Exactly Aussies Aboard? Not Exactly
In the White House's latest attempt to suggest that the United States has garnered significant international support for an at´tack on Iraq, President Bush met Monday with Austra...
Feb 10, 2003 / John Nichols
Dubious Dossier Dubious Dossier
Speaking to the United Nations on Wednesday, in an address that was broadly portrayed as a case for war with Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell argued that, "Iraq today is acti...
Feb 7, 2003 / John Nichols
Media Democracy’s Moment Media Democracy’s Moment
Suddenly, there are serious discussions about the danger of monopoly power.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney