TRADE FIGHT: Edwards vs. Kerry TRADE FIGHT: Edwards vs. Kerry
John Edwards is preparing to mount an issue-based challenge to the John Kerry juggernaut. And the issue will be trade policy. Edwards, the North Carolina senator who many Democra...
Feb 6, 2004 / John Nichols
Liar, Incompetent or Space Cadet? Liar, Incompetent or Space Cadet?
Is he incompetent, clueless, lying? Why has President Bush--once again--asserted that he went to war because Iraq refused to allow weapons inspectors into the country? Last Wedne...
Feb 5, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Labor Ponders Edwards, Kerry Labor Ponders Edwards, Kerry
On what was, undoubtedly, the most important day so far for his campaign for the presidency, John Edwards arranged to take time away from shaking hands with actual voters in the c...
Feb 4, 2004 / John Nichols
Justin, Janet and Weapons of Mass Distraction Justin, Janet and Weapons of Mass Distraction
The investigation will be "thorough and swift," Powell said yesterday. "Our nation's children, parents and citizens deserve better." That would be Michael--not Colin--Powell an...
Feb 3, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Slips–Even Further Bush Slips–Even Further
Moments after the polls closed in New Hampshire on January 27, Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie declared that President Bush had won 94 percent of the Republica...
Feb 2, 2004 / John Nichols
The Media and Howard Dean The Media and Howard Dean
What if we lived in a parallel universe where Howard Dean was actually treated fairly by the media? I don't mean some Deaniac bizarro world where the former Vermont governor's "I...
Feb 1, 2004 / John Nichols
Bush’s Bogus Guestworker Program Bush’s Bogus Guestworker Program
President Bush recently invited Latino immigration activists and the press to the White House to hear him unveil an important policy initiative. The President said that US immigr...
Feb 1, 2004 / Peter Rothberg
First Ladies, the Media and the War First Ladies, the Media and the War
If you're fed up with First Ladies being pigeonholed into thetraditional Laura or careerist Hillary box (or, as Timothy Noah in Slate put it, the "victim" or "bitch" box), check ...
Jan 30, 2004 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Slips–Among Republicans Bush Slips–Among Republicans
FOR UPDATED FIGURES FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE'S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, SEE "BUSH SLIPS-EVEN FURTHER" at: http://www.thenation.com/thebeat The record-high turnout in the New Hampshire Democ...
Jan 30, 2004 / John Nichols
“Exhibit A Against Media Concentration” “Exhibit A Against Media Concentration”
CBS officials are still refusing to air a MoveOn.org Voter Fund commercial during Sunday's Super Bowl game because that the 30-second advertisement criticizes President Bush's fis...
Jan 29, 2004 / John Nichols