The Old Time Hypocrisy Hour The Old Time Hypocrisy Hour
The various and sundry Republican presidential contenders will be stumbling over one another tonight--as they debate in South Carolina--and in the days ahead to curry favor with t...
May 15, 2007 / John Nichols
Hagelberg! Bloomha! For ’08! Maybe Hagelberg! Bloomha! For ’08! Maybe
"This country is in trouble. The world is in trouble. And we need some new, fresh, independent ideas to lead this country forward." Sounds a like the opening line from a presiden...
May 14, 2007 / John Nichols
Big Business Invades Your Mailbox Big Business Invades Your Mailbox
Note: I appeared on American Public Media's Marketplace todayto talk about sharp increases in US postal rates that will have a serious impacton independent journals. Here's a tr...
May 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Browner Shade of Blair? Or Better? A Browner Shade of Blair? Or Better?
LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair will not step down until late June. But, with his announcement that he is leaving politics after ten years as the leader of Britain's governmen...
May 11, 2007 / John Nichols
The Real Mother’s Day Tradition The Real Mother’s Day Tradition
"Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be of water or of tears!" So begins the original Mother's Day proclamation of 1870, written ...
May 10, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Surge of Insanity A Surge of Insanity
Just one day after a majority of Iraqi lawmakers rejected the continuing occupation of their country, the Washington Post reports that the Pentagon will begin deploying 35,000 sol...
May 9, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Feingold Rejects Compromise, Pushes Exit Strategy Feingold Rejects Compromise, Pushes Exit Strategy
Fifty-seven percent of Americans say that Congress should not compromise with President Bush in the Iraq War funding fight. That's the number that, according to a new CNN poll, wa...
May 9, 2007 / John Nichols
‘No Shame, No Blame’ ‘No Shame, No Blame’
In an elegant "Talk of the Town" piece on the subject of George Tenet's new book in the current issue of The New Yorker, George Packer levels a strong indictment against the Bush...
May 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
2007 Progressive Victories 2007 Progressive Victories
The Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) new report – 2007 Progressive Victories in the States – shows that state legislatures aren't waiting around on Congress to address som...
May 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Voting About Issues That Matter Voting About Issues That Matter
EDINBURGH -- The Scottish rock group The Proclaimers sang a quarter century ago: "I cannot understand why we let someone else rule our land." Last week's elections for the Scotti...
May 7, 2007 / John Nichols