John Nichols

National Affairs Correspondent

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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.

San Francisco Showdown San Francisco Showdown

San Francisco is a dot.com city, so it should come as no surprise that the two candidates in Tuesday's runoff for mayor of America's left-coast city are pretty much summed up by t...

Dec 8, 2003 / John Nichols

McCarthy’s (and Ashcroft’s) Nemesis McCarthy’s (and Ashcroft’s) Nemesis

In the summer of 1951, Senator Joe McCarthy's burgeoning red scare had intimidated not just official Washington but the nation's media. Free speech was taking a hit everywhere, bu...

Dec 5, 2003 / John Nichols

Electoral Raid on Baghdad Electoral Raid on Baghdad

George W. Bush's Thanksgving Day campaign stop in Baghdad said everything that needed to be said about the success of the US occupation of Iraq. The president, who likes to refer ...

Nov 30, 2003 / John Nichols

Why Jesse Jr. Backs Dean Why Jesse Jr. Backs Dean

No single endorsement, save that of next July's party convention, will decide the winner of what remains a remarkably unsettled race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Nov 20, 2003 / John Nichols

Tell Us The Truth! Tell Us The Truth!

"The truth is the truth. Not just the government's truth or the church's truth or the truth that won't upset the advertisers and stockholders but THE TRUTH and the TRUTH is that w...

Nov 16, 2003 / John Nichols

The Activist Primary The Activist Primary

A day before the International Committee of the Red Cross announced it would reduce its presence in Iraq because the country was becoming increasingly dangerous, President Bush...

Nov 6, 2003 / John Nichols

Up in Flames Up in Flames

The public revolts against monopoly media.

Oct 30, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney

Labor Warms to Dean Labor Warms to Dean

Even as the labor leaders who support him are redoubling efforts to secure the Democratic presidential nod for Dick Gephardt, it is becoming increasingly clear that the former ...

Oct 30, 2003 / John Nichols

Wellstone in 2004 Wellstone in 2004

During the two years when he was exploring a bid for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, Paul Wellstone spent a lot of time trying to figure out how a progressive coul...

Oct 23, 2003 / John Nichols

Refusing to Write the Blank Check Refusing to Write the Blank Check

In 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson sought a major supplemental appropriation to fund the rapidly expanding US presence in Vietnam, ten members of Congress said "no." The group...

Oct 18, 2003 / John Nichols

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