VEEPSTAKES: Feingold On Why He’s Off the List VEEPSTAKES: Feingold On Why He’s Off the List
Russ Feingold is popular enough with grassroots Democrats to have been boomed as a potential candidate for the party's 2008 nomination. He has a national reputation for working a...
Aug 19, 2008 / John Nichols
McCain, Circa 2003 McCain, Circa 2003
There's yet to be a solid, point-by-point effort to expose John McCain's pre-2003 views on Iraq, when (along with his neocon advisers and cheerleaders) he led the charge to Baghda...
Aug 17, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss
Clinton Will Be Placed In Nomination Clinton Will Be Placed In Nomination
New York Senator Hillary Clinton will become the first challenger to a presumptive Democratic nominee for president to be placed in nomination at a party convention since Jerry Br...
Aug 15, 2008 / John Nichols
Seeing Through John McCain–Even From Afar Seeing Through John McCain–Even From Afar
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is on to John McCain's games. Despite the fact that Saakashvili has quite a bit on his mind this week, the leader of the former Soviet stat...
Aug 13, 2008 / John Nichols
Winter Storm Warning Winter Storm Warning
As John McCain and the Republicans trumpet their election year boldfacedlie--drill now so we can lower prices at the pump today--they continueto ignore a looming energy disaster ...
Aug 13, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Swing State on the Black Sea The Swing State on the Black Sea
The conflict between Russia and Georgia came just in time for Barack Obama. Despite John McCain's efforts to exploit concern about the Russian military assault on its neighbor --...
Aug 12, 2008 / John Nichols
From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama
The Nation is proud to be sponsoring the Denver Public Library's "I Am the Library" project. Here's the project's compelling new video created by the ultra-talented Audrey Spren...
Aug 11, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pressured by progressive activists who objected to th...
Aug 10, 2008 / John Nichols
Good-Bye, John Edwards Good-Bye, John Edwards
So now we know. John Edwards did have sex with that woman, Rielle Hunter, just as the National Enquirer said. So much for all those jokes about Bat Boy and Hillary's alien baby...
Aug 9, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
Platform Fight: What About Guaranteed Health Care for All? Platform Fight: What About Guaranteed Health Care for All?
The Democratic Party's draft platform offers little in the way of a serious promise of health-care reform. The document reads as if it was written by the insurance industry rathe...
Aug 9, 2008 / John Nichols