Peter Beinart and the Beltway Crusaders Peter Beinart and the Beltway Crusaders
As Robert Borosage, co-Director of the Campaign for America'sFuture, argues in The Nation's current issue, "the current rage in center-right Democratic circles is to resuscit...
Jun 12, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Murtha vs. Hoyer Murtha vs. Hoyer
When the House of Representatives voted Thursday on the question of whether to allow old media companies to colonize and control the internet, the two men who would like to be maj...
Jun 10, 2006 / John Nichols
House Rejects Net Neutrality House Rejects Net Neutrality
The First Amendment of the Internet – the governing principle of net neutrality, which prevents telecommunications corporations from rigging the web so it is easier to visit sit...
Jun 9, 2006 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Bold Ballot Initiatives Sweet Victory: Bold Ballot Initiatives
Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. In the 1990s conservative strategists began to reshape the politicallandscape with an onslaught of ballot initiatives. State by state,Republican...
Jun 9, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
La Lucha Continua: Solidarity Across Time La Lucha Continua: Solidarity Across Time
Solidarity, if it is to mean much, must exist not merely in a white-hot moment. It must extend across the arc of history, at least until damage wrought in a particularly dark time...
Jun 8, 2006 / John Nichols
No Majority for Discrimination No Majority for Discrimination
President Bush threw what was left of his influence on Capitol Hill behind the move by social conservatives to amend the Constitution to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Bu...
Jun 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Citizens 1, Corporations 0 Citizens 1, Corporations 0
In states across the country Tuesday, primary elections named candidates for Congress, governorships and other important offices. But the most interesting, and perhaps significant...
Jun 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Keep the Estate Tax–UPDATED Keep the Estate Tax–UPDATED
Updated on June 8. Good News: Senators voted this afternoon to block a Republican effort to shrink taxes on inherited estates during this election year. GOP leaders had pushed s...
Jun 6, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Gore Vidal Campaigns for “A Real Democrat” Gore Vidal Campaigns for “A Real Democrat”
Gore Vidal, the grandson of a senator who stood himself for the House and Senate and then played a senator in Tim Robbins' brilliant film "Bob Roberts," has been campaigning this ...
Jun 6, 2006 / John Nichols
Dixie Chicks are No. 1 Dixie Chicks are No. 1
Cultural conservatives, who have been busy of late trying to claim that the rebellious songs of The Who are other rock groups are really right-wing anthems, have misread America's...
Jun 1, 2006 / John Nichols