Contempt of Congress Contempt of Congress
No one was all that surprised when the Bush administration announced Thursday that it would not cooperate with congressional demands for documents and testimony by prominent forme...
Jun 28, 2007 / John Nichols
Acting Locally Acting Locally
It's a frustrating time for those Americans who are fighting to end this war. There is gridlock in Washington. This White House continues to hang on to the argument that the US mu...
Jun 28, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Real ANWR The Real ANWR
A Canadian mining corporation, Northern Dynasty Minerals, is trying to create one of North America's largest open pit gold and copper mines in the heart of Alaska's Bristol Bay -...
Jun 28, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Not Quite Knocked Out by Knocked Up Not Quite Knocked Out by Knocked Up
Last night I finally saw Knocked Up, Judd Apatow's hilarious new movie, a raunchfest with a family-values core --- carrying on with accidental pregnancies, marriage as responsi...
Jun 27, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Feingold on Cheney: “I Think He’s Confused.” Feingold on Cheney: “I Think He’s Confused.”
Along with venerable West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Russ Feingold enjoys the relatively lonely distinction in the current Congress of having demonstrated something more than a...
Jun 27, 2007 / John Nichols
A Just Security A Just Security
It's been clear for some time that when it comes to approaches to security and foreign policy, the people are way aheadof the Inside-the-Beltway politicians and pundits in believi...
Jun 27, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
EFCA Defeated–For Now EFCA Defeated–For Now
I posted last week about the Employee Free Choice Act, which would help ensure that when a majority of employees in a workplace decide to form a union, they can do so without the ...
Jun 26, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Calling Cheney’s Bluff Calling Cheney’s Bluff
Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel has come up with the right response to Dick Cheney's attempt to suggest that the Office of the Vice President is not part of the executive branch...
Jun 25, 2007 / John Nichols
Suppressing the Vote Suppressing the Vote
Thanks to rigorous work by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, it is clear that the US. Attorney scandal – as outrageous as it ...
Jun 25, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Confidence in a Congress that Bends to Bush No Confidence in a Congress that Bends to Bush
Confidence in Congress has hit an all-time low. A mere 14 percent of Americans tell Gallup pollsters that they have a great deal or quite a lot of faith in the US House and Senate...
Jun 22, 2007 / John Nichols