Nancy Pelosi: Farm Girl Nancy Pelosi: Farm Girl
Nancy Pelosi has proven to be a far more politically savvy Speaker of the House than most of her critics, and some of her fans, expected. This is not to say that she has done enou...
Feb 27, 2007 / John Nichols
Money for Lefties Money for Lefties
The right has been generously funding conservative student activists for years. On the other side, the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund is currently taking applications for grants f...
Feb 27, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Sanity of Jimmy Carter The Sanity of Jimmy Carter
In an interview with This Week, anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, former President Jimmy Carter said that his recent book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid has led to the most p...
Feb 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Announcing Al Gore Announcing Al Gore
No, Al Gore did not make any major announcements Sunday night. But he certainly did not still speculation about the prospect that he might yet enter the 2008 presidential race. T...
Feb 26, 2007 / John Nichols
Suppressing News: Déjà Vu Suppressing News: Déjà Vu
"The assault on a free press ...should be recognized for what it is," wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich last July, "another desperate ploy by officials trying to hide thei...
Feb 25, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Cheney’s New Front in War on Reality Cheney’s New Front in War on Reality
When the Bush administration was asking in 2002 for Congressional approval of a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, Vice President Cheney told the national conve...
Feb 24, 2007 / John Nichols
Hillary’s Stalking Horse Leaves the Field Hillary’s Stalking Horse Leaves the Field
Having served his none-too-subtle role in the grand scheme of the 2OO8 presidential competition -- keeping as many Iowa Democrats as possible "locked up" until New York Senator Hi...
Feb 23, 2007 / John Nichols
Abolitionists Then and Now Abolitionists Then and Now
A new film called Amazing Grace, opening today, marks the bicentennial of the end of slavery in Britain, portraying the British abolitionist movement as led by activist and Membe...
Feb 23, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Fox Attacks Fox Attacks
Guerrilla documentarian Robert Greenwald and his Brave New Films team have been in the forefront of pioneering innovative ways to fund, produce and distribute progressive and time...
Feb 22, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
The Sunshine Caucus The Sunshine Caucus
The Democratic Party's sweep in November was due in no small part to its promise to clean up Washington. For those turned off by the K Street "politics as usual" deforming our dem...
Feb 22, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel