Mark Warner’s Election Victory Mark Warner’s Election Victory
The last time Democrats elected a new president who had not been a governor was in 1960, when U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy was the party's nominee and the narrow victor of a conte...
Nov 9, 2005 / John Nichols
Ethically Challenged Ethically Challenged
Five years into an Administration of sniggering mendacity, George Bush apparently feels his staff needs a mandatory refresher course on ethics--a response with the too-little too-...
Nov 8, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Swift Boat Attack on Bernie Sanders Swift Boat Attack on Bernie Sanders
The latest polls from Vermont show that U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders, the only independent member of the House, has a dramatic lead in the race for that state's open U.S. Se...
Nov 8, 2005 / John Nichols
¿Cómo Se Dice ‘Spin’? ¿Cómo Se Dice ‘Spin’?
George Bush had a tough time of it last weekend in Argentina. Mass demonstrations of opposition to the President's trade and economic policies greeted his every move. And even in...
Nov 7, 2005 / John Nichols
The Wrong Journalistic Decision The Wrong Journalistic Decision
If one needed more reason to criticize the Washington Post's decision to withhold information, at the government's request, about the CIA's network of prisons in Eastern Europe f...
Nov 7, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Congressmen Want Cheney to Testify Congressmen Want Cheney to Testify
Vice President Dick Cheney has had very little to say about the indictment of his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice...
Nov 3, 2005 / John Nichols
Sweet Victory: Wal-Mart Roundup Sweet Victory: Wal-Mart Roundup
It's been a tough year for Wal-Mart, and things are about to get tougher. Last Tuesday, at the world premiere of Robert Greenwald's Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, SEIU chi...
Nov 3, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
John Conyers and Rosa Parks John Conyers and Rosa Parks
The death last week of Rosa Parks at age 92 has inspired a predictableoutpouring of tributes from politicians of every partisan andideological bent. Even President Bush, a man who...
Nov 2, 2005 / John Nichols
Cronyism and Secrecy at the CPB Cronyism and Secrecy at the CPB
Scroll down for an update from Jeff Chester, one of America's leading media reform experts, re Kenneth Tomlinson's departure from the CPB board. Early last month in this space, I...
Nov 1, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cheney, Libby and the Mess They Made Cheney, Libby and the Mess They Made
Much of official Washington remains focused on the issues -- legal and political -- that have arisen from the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to ...
Nov 1, 2005 / John Nichols