Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon Carl Bernstein: Bush More “Disastrous” Than Nixon
Carl Bernstein will always be known as the journalist who brought down a president whose disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law disqualified the errant executive from ...
Aug 8, 2007 / John Nichols
Defend Dr. Tiller Defend Dr. Tiller
Dr. George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the US, pleaded not guilty last Friday to 19 misdemeanor charges brought against him by the state of Kansas. Th...
Aug 7, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Divider The Divider
When asked by George Stephanopoulos in the Sunday Republican debate to list his mistakes, Rudy Giuliani replied, "George, your father is a priest. I can explain it to your father,...
Aug 7, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption An Overwhelming Vote for Waste, Earmarks and Corruption
In a Congress where it has become fashionable to gripe about earmarks of a few hundred thousand dollars to pay for small-town museums and urban parks – and, until last week, for...
Aug 5, 2007 / John Nichols
Blogging While Female Blogging While Female
So far today I've watched Hillary Clinton take unscripted questions in a small room, seen Barack Obama wow a separate crowd of inquisitors, had Mike Gravel smartly answer somethin...
Aug 5, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution Lieberman v. Feingold and the Constitution
During Friday's debate in the US Senate on various proposals to alter the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Connecticut's sort-of-Democrat, sort-of-Independent, but always lo...
Aug 4, 2007 / John Nichols
Exposing Block & Blame Conservatives Exposing Block & Blame Conservatives
No progress on ending the war. No advances on new energy policy. No movement on health care costs. Why is Congress gridlocked? There has been much smart debate over this vexing ...
Aug 4, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
When a Government Won’t Own Up When a Government Won’t Own Up
Rescue and cleanup workers, who put their lives on the line in our nation's darkest hour, weren't given information about environmental risks and are now paying the price with fin...
Aug 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect Broken Bridges, Lost Levees and a Brutal Culture of Neglect
As rescue workers continued to pull bodies out of the stretch of the Mississippi River that runs beneath the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis Thursday, U.S. Transportation Se...
Aug 2, 2007 / John Nichols
Worse Than You Think Worse Than You Think
The non-stop violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis--nearly one in three--in need of emergency aid, says a new report released by the i...
Jul 31, 2007 / Peter Rothberg