Congress Asks: Why Are Bailed-Out Auto Firms Closing Plants? Congress Asks: Why Are Bailed-Out Auto Firms Closing Plants?
Democratic and Republican members of the US House have suggested that they were deceived by Chrysler management and members of the Obama administration's auto industry task force ...
May 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Congress Needs to Intervene on Auto Bailout Congress Needs to Intervene on Auto Bailout
The Chrysler and General Motors restructuring processes, which will result in an unprecedented number of auto plant closings in the United States, the layoffs of tens of thousands...
May 20, 2009 / John Nichols
Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs Auto Bailout Blues: Spin, Lies and Layoffs
The madness of the approach adopted by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to war in Vietnam was summed up by the American major who said after the destruction of the Vietnamese...
May 16, 2009 / John Nichols
House Backs Obama’s Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy House Backs Obama’s Afghan Surge, Amid Calls for Exit Strategy
"Sometimes great presidents make mistakes," declared Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern as he announced his intention to vote against $97 billion in "emergency&q...
May 14, 2009 / John Nichols
The Case for Kenosha The Case for Kenosha
Bailouts may protect the automakers. But what about the autoworkers?
May 13, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, the insurance industry-friendly Democrat who is managing show hearings on healthcare reform, has come up with a novel way to express ...
May 12, 2009 / John Nichols
Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture Bush, Cheney, Pelosi and Testifying About Torture
I.F. Stone used to joke that what passed for investigative journalism in Washington was actually just the restating of what was already in the public record at the appropriate tim...
May 11, 2009 / John Nichols
David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism David Simon, Arianna Huffington and the Future of Journalism
Fools look for a fight between newspapers and the net. The challenge is to defend print and digital journalism, in an age of big-media myopia.
May 11, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
Cheney Joins Grand Old Party of Limbaugh Cheney Joins Grand Old Party of Limbaugh
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has made himself the most prominent spokesman for the Republican establishment in recent weeks. But for the most part he has confined himself to ...
May 10, 2009 / John Nichols
A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability A Democrat Calls for Executive Accountability
The election of Barack Obama to the presidency may have caused some Democratic members of Congress to think that the constitutional questions raised by the executive excesses of t...
May 8, 2009 / John Nichols