Fight GOP Tricks with Courage Fight GOP Tricks with Courage
Thanks to Nation writer and Occidental College professor Peter Dreier for tipping me off to the following item with which California Nation readers are likely already familiar. ...
Oct 31, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
No Treats for FCC Chair and Media Monopolists No Treats for FCC Chair and Media Monopolists
Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin is doing everything he can to prevent public input that would challenge his rush to have the commission radically rewrite medi...
Oct 31, 2007 / John Nichols
Going Postal: Arguing for Media Diversity, Debate & Democracy Going Postal: Arguing for Media Diversity, Debate & Democracy
Those of us at The Nation have been banging on for some months about the issue of postage rates. In particular, we've been expressing deep concern about the radical restructuring ...
Oct 30, 2007 / John Nichols
Destabilizing Europe Destabilizing Europe
If you want to know how stupid Bush's decision to push ahead with building a missile defense system in Eastern Europe really is, check out what Vladimir Putin said last week--comp...
Oct 30, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Al Gore: The Write-In Front-Runner Al Gore: The Write-In Front-Runner
A funny thing happened when the Deaniacs were asked to decide who they might want to back for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. The supporters of the 2004 presidential...
Oct 29, 2007 / John Nichols
Cristina and Hillary Cristina and Hillary
UPDATED--Her husband is a former governor and president who presided over an economic boom. She is a popular center-left senator--a tough, disciplined and savvy politician who has...
Oct 28, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran Bush, Cheney, Rice and Kucinich on Iran
Those echoes that Americans are hearing in the noisy-and-getting-noisier debate about Iran are from 2002 and 2003, when members of the current administration were busy spinning th...
Oct 25, 2007 / John Nichols
Everybody Look What’s Going Down Everybody Look What’s Going Down
There's somethin' happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there, tellin' me I gotta beware. I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound...
Oct 25, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Feingold Leadership Vs. Obama, Clinton Posturing Feingold Leadership Vs. Obama, Clinton Posturing
Russ Feingold stood on the floor of the Senate Wednesday to mark the passing of the fifth anniversary of President Bush's signing of the Congressional resolution that authorized h...
Oct 24, 2007 / John Nichols
The Post Office vs. the Founding Fathers The Post Office vs. the Founding Fathers
On July 15, the postal rates for America's most important political magazines, both left and right, increased by twenty to thirty percent after the Postal Regulatory Commission (P...
Oct 24, 2007 / Peter Rothberg