From the Basement to Rayburn From the Basement to Rayburn
On Wednesday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus – now the largest caucus in Congress with 69 members – co-hosted a panel discussion along with The Nation and the Institute ...
Feb 2, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Biden Blunders, Again Biden Blunders, Again
The remarkable thing about Joe Biden's botched announcement of his second presidential run is not that he said something outrageously inappropriate and, if we are to assume that D...
Feb 2, 2007 / John Nichols
Occupying Melting Glaciers Occupying Melting Glaciers
Amid his plan to escalate the war in Iraq, and his dead-on-arrival health care proposal, barely noticed in President Bush's State of the Union address was the call to permanently ...
Feb 1, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Molly’s Pledge Molly’s Pledge
Read John Nichols' tribute to Molly Ivins, who died on wednesday. Many Nation readers know that the inimitable, invaluable, iconoclastic columnist Molly Ivins has been battling c...
Jan 30, 2007 / Peter Rothberg
Big Russ and the VP Big Russ and the VP
If I were Tim Russert I'd be as hopping mad as a Buffalo Bills fan on any given Sunday. First, Dick Cheney's office tried to scapegoat him in the Plamegate scandal and then Cheney...
Jan 30, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Father Robert Drinan, D-Constitution Father Robert Drinan, D-Constitution
When Father Robert Drinan was swept into Congress as part of the "New Politics" surge of 1970 -- which saw Democratic primary voters across the country replace pro-Vietnam War inc...
Jan 30, 2007 / John Nichols
“Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War” “Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War”
Vice President Dick Cheney has made it clear that he does not believe Congress has much to say about the war in Iraq, in particular, or about foreign policy in general. With repea...
Jan 29, 2007 / John Nichols
The Politics of Motherhood The Politics of Motherhood
Today's New York Times has a cover story about women politicians and the politics of motherhood. As a woman, a wife, a mother, a step-grandmother of four, and the editor of ...
Jan 29, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
DC Marchers Challenge Congress to End War DC Marchers Challenge Congress to End War
Actor Sean Penn summed up the new energy -- and the new focus -- of the anti-war movement Saturday, when he turned George Bush's own words against the president. Just hours after...
Jan 28, 2007 / John Nichols
March for Peace, Accountability March for Peace, Accountability
Hundreds of thousands of antiwar demonstrators will take to the streets this weekend in a surge for peace that is long overdue. The message of these demonstrations is not directe...
Jan 26, 2007 / John Nichols