Cheney: Thanks for Cutting and Running Cheney: Thanks for Cutting and Running
Vice President Dick Cheney, keeping as far from federal prosecutors as possible these days, arrived in Japan Wednesday to officially thank that country for supporting the Bush-Che...
Feb 22, 2007 / John Nichols
Lefty Film of the Year Lefty Film of the Year
This year has been a bonanza for films and documentaries of the lefty variety. It's not something the Academy is interested in but if they gave an Oscar for the year's best progre...
Feb 21, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Chris Dodd, D-Constitution Chris Dodd, D-Constitution
No one is going to mistake Chris Dodd for a frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nod. The senator from Connecticut is running fourth in the latest poll of voter...
Feb 20, 2007 / John Nichols
“If Iraq Don’t Kill You, Walter Reed Will” “If Iraq Don’t Kill You, Walter Reed Will”
According to the Washington Post, Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the nation's capital has treated one out of every four soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. Over 700 out...
Feb 20, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Clinton Would Rather Be Wrong Than President Clinton Would Rather Be Wrong Than President
"If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from." So says New Y...
Feb 19, 2007 / John Nichols
A Last Battler Against Joe McCarthy and His “Ism” A Last Battler Against Joe McCarthy and His “Ism”
The arc of history is long, and those who bend it over particularly wide stretches to time sometimes outlive memories of the most dramatic turns. Such is the case with Thomas Fai...
Feb 16, 2007 / John Nichols
No Katrina Hearings? Gotcha, Joe No Katrina Hearings? Gotcha, Joe
Senator Joseph Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security andGovernmental Affairs Committee, recently did a 180 and said thathe will not hold investigations into the disastr...
Feb 14, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Obama’s Race a Factor in Howard’s Attack? Is Obama’s Race a Factor in Howard’s Attack?
Why would Australian Prime Minister John Howard separate out Barack Obama from all of the other contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination -- and from all the prominent...
Feb 13, 2007 / John Nichols
Note to Schumer: What About George Bailey? Note to Schumer: What About George Bailey?
In his new book, Positively American: Winning Back the American Middle Class One Family at a Time, Senator Charles Schumer reveals the imaginary constituents that have long inform...
Feb 12, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
America’s Not Ready to Make Nice America’s Not Ready to Make Nice
Introduced by folk-singing legend Joan Baez as "three brave women," the Dixie Chicks took the stage at the 49th annual Grammy Awards ceremony to sing their no-apologies for dissen...
Feb 12, 2007 / John Nichols