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.

Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon

Carl Bernstein will always be known as the journalist who brought down a president whose disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law disqualified the errant executive from ...

Aug 8, 2007 / John Nichols

Bush to Karzai: Will You Just Shut Up About Iran? Bush to Karzai: Will You Just Shut Up About Iran?

Things got a little testy at the Camp David Summit between Afghan President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and American President George Bush. Karzai, who when he is in the U.S. is e...

Aug 6, 2007 / John Nichols

An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption

In a Congress where it has become fashionable to gripe about earmarks of a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for small-town museums and urban parks – and, until last week, for...

Aug 5, 2007 / John Nichols

Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution

During Friday's debate in the US Senate on various proposals to alter the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Connecticut's sort-of-Democrat, sort-of-Independent, but always lo...

Aug 4, 2007 / John Nichols

Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect

As rescue workers continued to pull bodies out of the stretch of the Mississippi River that runs beneath the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis Thursday, U.S. Transportation Se...

Aug 2, 2007 / John Nichols

Wall Street Journal Gone Wild Wall Street Journal Gone Wild

There will be plenty of formal responses to the news that The Wall Street Journal will soon join the "stable" of Rupert Murdoch's "media properties. But few will to...

Jul 31, 2007 / John Nichols

“The President Cannot Ignore an Impeachment” “The President Cannot Ignore an Impeachment”

After months of revelations about his ham-handed attempts to politicize investigations and prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys and sections of the Department of Justice he heads, after...

Jul 31, 2007 / John Nichols

Censure and Impeachment: Take 2 Censure and Impeachment: Take 2

New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey is easily the most dogged critic of Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives, and Hinchey has not exactly been soft on Presid...

Jul 28, 2007 / John Nichols

A Commitment to the Constitution A Commitment to the Constitution

The Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and MoveOn.org have launched a vital campaign to put restoration of the Constitution on the agenda for Democratic presiden...

Jul 27, 2007 / John Nichols

Impeachable Offenses Impeachable Offenses

The burgeoning movement to impeach Bush and Cheney is a rational response at a time when 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Jul 26, 2007 / John Nichols

x