Obama’s In, Predictably Obama’s In, Predictably
The only thing about the launch of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy that wasn't meticulously stage managed was the weather. Outside the old statehouse in downtown Springfield...
Feb 10, 2007 / John Nichols
Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda Pelosi, Planes and Partisan Propaganda
Republican apologists for the Bush administration's failed fight in Iraq and their amen corner in the media have been looking for something, anything, to distract the American pub...
Feb 9, 2007 / John Nichols
The Rich Get Greedier The Rich Get Greedier
Most Nation readers couldn't have missed ExxonMobil's recent announcement that in 2006 it reaped the largest annual profits of any corporation in history--39.5 billion dollars. B...
Feb 9, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Got Vote? (continued) Got Vote? (continued)
Last week the Democratic National Committee, in an effort led by the DNC Voting Rights Institute Chairwoman Donna Brazile, voted unanimously to support legislation that would fina...
Feb 8, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Alternative to a Failed Status Quo The Alternative to a Failed Status Quo
President Bush and Vice President Cheney constantly claim that critics of the war have not offered an alternative to their proposals to surge deeper into the quagmire they have cr...
Feb 7, 2007 / John Nichols
Defense Budget Follies (continued) Defense Budget Follies (continued)
With President Bush's latest budget request of $245 billion for the "global war on terror" (and a warning from administration officials that there are more funding requests to com...
Feb 6, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Holding Bush to Account for Climate Lies, Neglect Holding Bush to Account for Climate Lies, Neglect
Viewers of Fox News, listeners to Rush Limbaugh and all the other sorry deadenders who choose Bush administration propaganda over perspective will be shocked to learn that the deb...
Feb 6, 2007 / John Nichols
What’s Wrong With This Picture? What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped, What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top You're on...
Feb 5, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
States to Congress: Block War Escalation States to Congress: Block War Escalation
As the Senate struggles even to open debate on a non-binding – translation: meaningless – resolution expressing frustration with President Bush's plan to surge 21,500 more U.S...
Feb 5, 2007 / John Nichols
Compromising Compromises the Senate Compromising Compromises the Senate
If there was ever a time to embrace Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette's theory that compromise undermines progress it is now. The pioneering progressive reformer of the first ...
Feb 2, 2007 / John Nichols