Will Clinton, Obama, Biden and Dodd Show for Key Farm Vote? Will Clinton, Obama, Biden and Dodd Show for Key Farm Vote?
Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd are all running around Iowa telling farmers how much they care about them. But do the Democratic presidential con...
Dec 6, 2007 / John Nichols
Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress Media Ownership Fight Moves to Congress
Rutgers University recently hosted the latest in a series of town hall forums being conducted by the two members of the five-person Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) who ar...
Dec 6, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Washington Post Attacks the Man who Got Iran Right Washington Post Attacks the Man who Got Iran Right
The Washington Post's Al Kamen has a snarky little item in today's paper about the International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. Kamen awards ElBaradei ...
Dec 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Left-Leaning Male Pundits Heart Huckabee Left-Leaning Male Pundits Heart Huckabee
Have you noticed how liberal white male reporters get crushes on right-wing male candidates? For years John McCain had Democratic and even left men swooning at his feet--a strai...
Dec 5, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Everybody Look What’s Going Down Everybody Look What’s Going Down
Recently, I wrote about the No Nukes crowd fighting to remove $50 billion worth of nuclear industry subsidies from landmark energy legislation. Indeed, an upwelling of grassroots ...
Dec 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Shame on Obama and Clinton for Skipping Peru Trade Vote Shame on Obama and Clinton for Skipping Peru Trade Vote
New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama desperately want Democrats to believe that they are serious about serving the American people as the next presid...
Dec 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Renewing the Cold War Renewing the Cold War
This past June, Katrina vanden Heuvel blogged about President Bush's plan to deploy a proposed a missile defense system in both the Czech Republic and Poland despite the reluctanc...
Dec 4, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Hillary, Obama and Healthcare Hillary, Obama and Healthcare
With Iowa one month away, the almost obsessive horserace coverage is in full swing and, as it has for much of campaign, it shortchanges the substance of the serious and urgent iss...
Dec 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush Buddy Putin Trumps Democracy, Chavez Embraces It Bush Buddy Putin Trumps Democracy, Chavez Embraces It
So how's George Bush's campaign for to spread his version of "democracy" going? The results are in from the American president's favorite former superpower, the Russian Federatio...
Dec 3, 2007 / John Nichols
Incident in Rochester, Challenge for Clinton Incident in Rochester, Challenge for Clinton
The problem for Hillary Clinton that arises from the incident in which a disturbed man invaded her Rochester, New Hampshire, campaign headquarters is not any kind of physical thre...
Dec 2, 2007 / John Nichols