Time to Turn the Paige Time to Turn the Paige
At a meeting with the nation's governors last month, George W. Bush's Education Secretary, Rodney Paige, called the National Education Association (NEA) a "terrorist organization...
Mar 15, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
An Indecent Proposal An Indecent Proposal
"We are moving in the direction of undermining the First Amendment," said US Representative Ron Paul, the maverick Texan who was the only Republican member of the House to oppose ...
Mar 15, 2004 / John Nichols
Kennedy’s Other Speech Kennedy’s Other Speech
Senator Edward Kennedy gave two magnificent speeches last week, but only one received the attention it deserved. While his blistering attack on the Bush Administration for mani...
Mar 10, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Big Fat Fraud A Big Fat Fraud
Bush's 9/11 campaign commercials are reckless and offensive. Depicting firefighters carrying bodies, draped in American flags, out of the World Trade Center rubble, they triviali...
Mar 9, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush’s Backfiring Ad Campaign Bush’s Backfiring Ad Campaign
Most political observers expected the Bush/Cheney re-election ads to begin by branding Bush as the 9/11 candidate. The only surprise, as John Nichols points out in his latest web...
Mar 6, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
Exploiting 9/11, Badly Exploiting 9/11, Badly
It should not come as a surprise to anyone who has watched American politics over the past several years that George W. Bush has begun his formal reelection campaigning by exploit...
Mar 5, 2004 / John Nichols
Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment Clear Channel vs. the First Amendment
"We must preserve radio as a medium for democracy." Sen. Russ Feingold, on January 30, 2003, before the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Media Concentration and Ownership i...
Mar 5, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Running for Running Mate Running for Running Mate
Had John Edwards won the Ohio and Georgia primaries on Tuesday, it would have been difficult to prevent him from staking his claim on the Democratic nomination for vice president....
Mar 3, 2004 / John Nichols
Let’s End the Two-Party Duopoly Let’s End the Two-Party Duopoly
When Ralph Nader chided what he called the "liberal intelligentsia" for appealing to him not to run in 2004 as "a contemptuous statement against democracy, against freedom, agai...
Mar 3, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Antiwar Primary Challenge Antiwar Primary Challenge
In 1966, barely two years after the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was passed by the House and Senate, a handful of intrepid candidates challenged pro-Vietnam War Democratic incumbents ...
Mar 1, 2004 / John Nichols