New Bill Could Stall Big Media New Bill Could Stall Big Media
In 2003, an unprecedented groundswell of popular opposition killed then-Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell's efforts to eliminate rules that limit the abili...
Nov 14, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Right-to-Lifers Endorse Thompson — Cynically Right-to-Lifers Endorse Thompson — Cynically
The most cynical group currently operating on the American political stage, the National Right to Life Committee has endorsed the most cynical man to seek the presidency in recent...
Nov 13, 2007 / John Nichols
Jonathan Demme on The Other Politician He’d Like to Film Jonathan Demme on The Other Politician He’d Like to Film
Last month, the Washington Post ran an interview with Oscar winning Director Jonathan Demme. The subject: His documentary, "Jimmy Carter Man from Plains." The Nation has long beli...
Nov 13, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Norman Mailer–The Good Father Norman Mailer–The Good Father
My mother and Norman Mailer were longtime friends. So it made sense that Betsy Mailer and I were roommates in our first year of college. On the big moving day, out of NYC to Princ...
Nov 11, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Norman Mailer: He Went Down Swinging Norman Mailer: He Went Down Swinging
There is much, much to be said of Norman Mailer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-class rabble-rouser who died Saturday at age 84. But the pugilistic pensman would perhaps...
Nov 10, 2007 / John Nichols
Shame on Clinton, Obama, Dodd & Biden for Skipping AG Vote Shame on Clinton, Obama, Dodd & Biden for Skipping AG Vote
Michael Mukasey was confirmed late Thursday by the U.S. Senate to serve as the nation's 81st Attorney General. This means that, despite the fact refused to commit during the cour...
Nov 9, 2007 / John Nichols
Foreclosure Turmoil Foreclosure Turmoil
The economic grenades are going off. Just pick up today's newspapers. The subprime lending crisis is metastasizing; foreclosures on homes purchased with subprime mortgages are exp...
Nov 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
75 Years Ago FDR Read the Results Right, and Took a Left Turn 75 Years Ago FDR Read the Results Right, and Took a Left Turn
Seventy-five years ago today, the American people rejected not just a president -- Herbert Hoover -- but a royalist vision of federal policymaking that had allowed tens of million...
Nov 8, 2007 / John Nichols
San Francisco Goes Green San Francisco Goes Green
This weekend marks the San Francisco Green Festival, the largest eco-affair in the United States. Started six years ago as an annual weekend event in the Bay Area, the Green Festi...
Nov 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Dowd v Clinton, Chapter 3465 Dowd v Clinton, Chapter 3465
Is Maureen Dowd obsessed with Hillary Clinton or what? Last week, she complained that Hillary spoke "girlfriend to girlfriend" to women voters while refusing to share the pain...
Nov 7, 2007 / Katha Pollitt