Sweet Victory: Waging War on Emissions Sweet Victory: Waging War on Emissions
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. If trends continue, 2006 may be remembered as the year the world woke up to the global climate crisis. And Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth--which...
Jun 22, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
“The Single Most Important [Media] Policy Debate” “The Single Most Important [Media] Policy Debate”
"This innocuous-looking document initiates the single most important public policy debate that the FCC will tackle this year," Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps ex...
Jun 21, 2006 / John Nichols
The Next Big Fight Over Media Ownership The Next Big Fight Over Media Ownership
The Federal Communications Commission will again attempt to do the bidding of big media this year, with a scheme to rewrite ownership rules in much the same manner as it did in 20...
Jun 20, 2006 / John Nichols
How Congress Is Shafting the Middle Class How Congress Is Shafting the Middle Class
In 2005, Congress failed the middle class. This is the blunt assessment of the nonpartisan Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI), which today released its third annual sco...
Jun 20, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who Supports the Troops? Who Supports the Troops?
The February Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey of U.S. troops serving in Iraq found that 72 percent of them thought United States forces should exit that country by the ...
Jun 16, 2006 / John Nichols
The Peace Race The Peace Race
The peace majority is real. A CBS poll finds that 80 percent of Democrats believe the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, and more than 60 percent want US troops home...
Jun 15, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Taking Back America Taking Back America
I'm just back from Washington, DC, where the Campaign for America's Future staged its fourth annual Take Back America conference at the Hilton hotel near DuPont Circle. Bringing ...
Jun 15, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Another Blank Check for Perpetual War Another Blank Check for Perpetual War
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives maintained its track record of providing absolutely no checks and balances on the Bush administration's warmaking this week...
Jun 14, 2006 / John Nichols
Pick a Team Pick a Team
I had lunch yesterday afternoon in a casual restaurant in the heart of Washington, DC. It wasn't a sports bar but there were three TVs tuned into the US/Czech World Cup match. The...
Jun 14, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Now, What About Cheney? Now, What About Cheney?
Now that the long speculation about whether White House political czar Karl Rove would be indicted for the role he played in exposing the identity of a CIA operative is done, perh...
Jun 13, 2006 / John Nichols