McKinney Redux McKinney Redux
During the long months of post-September 11 presidential invincibility, no member of Congress climbed further out on the what-did-Bush-know-when limb than Representative Cynthia M...
May 23, 2002 / John Nichols
Cynthia McKinney and the ‘What Bush Knew’ Debate Cynthia McKinney and the ‘What Bush Knew’ Debate
In April, U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., got in a whole heap of trouble after she called for a thorough investigation of what George W. Bush knew before September 11 about the...
May 19, 2002 / John Nichols
The New Politics of September 11 The New Politics of September 11
Since September 11, George W. Bush's political team and their Republican allies have used every trick to exploit the tragedy for political advantage.
May 17, 2002 / John Nichols
The New Politics of September 11 The New Politics of September 11
Since Sept. 11, George W. Bush?s political team and their Republican allies have used every trick to exploit the tragedy for political advantage. Just this week, they were trying ...
May 16, 2002 / John Nichols
Derailing Fast Track: Senate votes reopen trade fight Derailing Fast Track: Senate votes reopen trade fight
After the U.S. House of Representatives voted by one vote last December to grant President Bush Fast Track authority to negotiate a sweeping Free Trade Area of the Americas, the W...
May 15, 2002 / John Nichols
A Congressman’s Defeat Spells Trouble for Business Democrats A Congressman’s Defeat Spells Trouble for Business Democrats
U.S. Rep. Tom Sawyer, who broke with other industrial-state Democrats to back free trade measures such as NAFTA, suffered a stunning defeat in an Ohio's May 7 Democratic primary. ...
May 10, 2002 / John Nichols
Paul Wellstone, Fighter Paul Wellstone, Fighter
The Senate's most progressive member is in the fight of his life.
May 9, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
A Voting Reform That Works Is Transforming Texas A Voting Reform That Works Is Transforming Texas
Considering the role that Florida's electoral mess played in making him president, and considering his active disinterest in reforming political processes to assure that the Flori...
May 7, 2002 / John Nichols
Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington Seventy-Five Thousand Protest in Washington
"I think the movement is beginning to wake up," Valerie Mullen, an 80-year-old anti-war activist from Vermont, exclaimed as she surveyed the swelling crowd of people protesting ag...
Apr 21, 2002 / John Nichols
It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight It’s Time to Turn the Farm Bill Debate Into a Food Fight
Would someone in Congress please, please, please propose changing the name of the "farm bill" to the "food bill"? Maybe if the issue at hand had a more dramatic name the media a...
Apr 15, 2002 / John Nichols