No Treats for FCC Chair and Media Monopolists No Treats for FCC Chair and Media Monopolists
Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin is doing everything he can to prevent public input that would challenge his rush to have the commission radically rewrite medi...
Oct 31, 2007 / John Nichols
DEM DEBATE: Edwards, Not Obama, Hits Clinton Hardest, Smartest DEM DEBATE: Edwards, Not Obama, Hits Clinton Hardest, Smartest
It was supposed to be the night Barack Obama took Hillary Clinton down. But, when all was said and done, Obama was a bystander. The opening question in Tuesday's Democratic presi...
Oct 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Going Postal: Arguing for Media Diversity, Debate & Democracy Going Postal: Arguing for Media Diversity, Debate & Democracy
Those of us at The Nation have been banging on for some months about the issue of postage rates. In particular, we've been expressing deep concern about the radical restructuring ...
Oct 30, 2007 / John Nichols
Al Gore: The Write-In Front-Runner Al Gore: The Write-In Front-Runner
A funny thing happened when the Deaniacs were asked to decide who they might want to back for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. The supporters of the 2004 presidential...
Oct 29, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran
Those echoes that Americans are hearing in the noisy-and-getting-noisier debate about Iran are from 2002 and 2003, when members of the current administration were busy spinning th...
Oct 25, 2007 / John Nichols
Feingold Leadership Vs. Obama, Clinton Posturing Feingold Leadership Vs. Obama, Clinton Posturing
Russ Feingold stood on the floor of the Senate Wednesday to mark the passing of the fifth anniversary of President Bush's signing of the Congressional resolution that authorized h...
Oct 24, 2007 / John Nichols
An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy
President Bush is the lamest of lame-duck chief executives, with no moral authority, no legislative majority and no popular domestic or foreign-policy agendas. So what can he do w...
Oct 18, 2007 / John Nichols
Al Franken Seeks the Wellstone Seat Al Franken Seeks the Wellstone Seat
Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken has won wide support among voters--and conservatives are getting scared.
Oct 18, 2007 / Feature / John Nichols
89 House Members Tell Bush: No More Money for Occupation 89 House Members Tell Bush: No More Money for Occupation
The occupation in Iraq will begin to end on the day that Democrats -- and responsible Republicans -- in Congress decide to stop meeting the demands of the Bush-Cheney administrati...
Oct 16, 2007 / John Nichols
Gore Wins the Norwegian Primary Gore Wins the Norwegian Primary
Having now won the Norwegian Primary, it is reasonable to ask why Al Gore would want to slog his way through the snows of New Hampshire. But the inconvenient truth is that never ...
Oct 12, 2007 / John Nichols