DNC Should Encourage Democrats to Campaign in Florida DNC Should Encourage Democrats to Campaign in Florida
Florida will not just hold a Republican primary next Tuesday. It will also hold a Democratic primary. The dynamics of the contests could not be more different, however. Republic...
Jan 24, 2008 / John Nichols
The Cost of Fighting Torture The Cost of Fighting Torture
On Monday, January 28th, Joanne Anderson, Ozone Bhaguan, Le Anne Clausen, Art Landis, Ed Lewinson, Chris Lieberman, Diane Lopez Hughes, Tiel Rainelli, Gus Roddy and Stephen Schweit...
Jan 24, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Fix Our Broken Electoral System Fix Our Broken Electoral System
In a campaign where there has been much talk about change, bringing new people into the process, and high voter turnout (at least on the Democratic side), the recent lawsuit in Ne...
Jan 23, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama Reaches the Mountaintop Obama Reaches the Mountaintop
In the duel of King Holiday weekend speeches, there is no question that Barack Obama won. Indeed, on Sunday, he delivered the finest speech of a campaign that has heard the senat...
Jan 21, 2008 / John Nichols
Sign the Open Letter From American Feminists Sign the Open Letter From American Feminists
With advice and counsel from the History in Action e-mail list, I wrote up the Open Letter below to protest the way the media slanders the women's movement as indifferent to the h...
Jan 20, 2008 / Katha Pollitt
Wexler: Election Can’t Distract From Holding Cheney to Account Wexler: Election Can’t Distract From Holding Cheney to Account
This work of electing a new president is important, indeed. And it is exciting, especially as the contests for both the Democratic and Republican nominations remain unsettled. B...
Jan 19, 2008 / John Nichols
The Hidden Healthcare Crisis The Hidden Healthcare Crisis
Last Spring, following the death of twelve-year old Deamonte Driver of Maryland whose untreated tooth infection spread to his brain, I wrote about the national epidemic of dental d...
Jan 19, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Must-Win State for Obama A Must-Win State for Obama
Caucuses are indefensibly awful ways in which to select delegates to a political party's national convention, and they are an even worse way in which to sort out the field of cand...
Jan 18, 2008 / John Nichols
Whither the Dream Whither the Dream
This post was updated on January 20, and then again on January 21. From 1961 to 1966, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an annual essay for The Nation on the state of civ...
Jan 18, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party
"The genius of American democracy has somehow done it again. George Bush is the right president at the right time." So declared the consistently-conservative Las Vegas Review-Jou...
Jan 18, 2008 / John Nichols