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.

Seat Senator Franken Seat Senator Franken

It's time for the GOP to end this charade.

Apr 15, 2009 / John Nichols

Hark! Teabaggers! Beware The Tories In Your Ranks Hark! Teabaggers! Beware The Tories In Your Ranks

Sam Adams and the more radical of his Boston compatriots would, presumably, have been bemused by the image of conservatively-clad Middle Americans recalling the revolutionary acts...

Apr 15, 2009 / John Nichols

Socialists Take Over Congress (A GOP Fairy Tale) Socialists Take Over Congress (A GOP Fairy Tale)

Alabama Congressman Spencer Bachus, who despite an uncanny naivete regarding matters economic is the ranking Republican on the powerful House Financial Services Committee, is all ...

Apr 12, 2009 / John Nichols

Ahoy, Obama! They’s Pirates Aplenty in These Waters Ahoy, Obama! They’s Pirates Aplenty in These Waters

Forget the economy! Vice President Joe Biden says the White House is working "around the clock" on the problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and on the Indian Ocean. Asked by a ...

Apr 9, 2009 / John Nichols

Springtime for Marriage Equality: First Iowa, Now Vermont, DC Springtime for Marriage Equality: First Iowa, Now Vermont, DC

In spring, they say, human hearts incline toward love. And from the Midwest to New England, the love that once dared not speak its name is being formally recognized and celebrated...

Apr 7, 2009 / John Nichols

House Members to Obama: Rethink Afghanistan Surge House Members to Obama: Rethink Afghanistan Surge

Congressional Democrats and Republicans are signing on to a letter urging President Obama to reconsider his plan to surge tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops into Afghanis...

Apr 2, 2009 / John Nichols

Referendum on Obama Policies Yields a Virtual Tie Referendum on Obama Policies Yields a Virtual Tie

The most closely-watched election test yet faced by the young Obama administration has yielded an inconclusive result with 100 percent of the vote counted. In the upstate New Yor...

Apr 1, 2009 / John Nichols

Auto Gets Tough Love, While Wall Street Feels the Love Auto Gets Tough Love, While Wall Street Feels the Love

Of course, General Motors CEO Rick Rick Wagoner was incapable of running a major auto company. Aside from a name that sounded like a Jeep model, Wagoner brought nothing to the Ame...

Mar 31, 2009 / John Nichols

A J’accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence A J’accuse for CAP, MoveOn Afghanistan Silence

President Obama went on CBS News' "Face the Nation" Sunday to make the case for his great big war in Afghanistan. The good news is that Obama says, "What I will not do is to simp...

Mar 29, 2009 / John Nichols

O’Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed Back O’Reilly Ambushes Journalist and Gets Ambushed Back

After ThinkProgress.org's managing editor Amanda Terkel wrote a blog entry critical of Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, the bloviator-in-chief sent a producer, Jesse Watters, to sta...

Mar 27, 2009 / John Nichols

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