An Executive Branch Assault on the Constitution An Executive Branch Assault on the Constitution
The Bush Administration's Department of Defense is examining whether it has the power to break a strike at tire plants that supply the military. The Constitution affords the exec...
Dec 17, 2006 / John Nichols
Radio Is Wrecked–But It Can Be Repaired Radio Is Wrecked–But It Can Be Repaired
The Future of Music Coalition [FMC], the alliance of musicians and music fans that conducts the nuts-and-bolts research on media consolidation that should be done by the Federal C...
Dec 15, 2006 / John Nichols
Health Scare, Democracy Scare Health Scare, Democracy Scare
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson, reportedly recovering after brain surgery Wednesday, reminds Americans of one of the most troublingly undemocratic aspects of this country's unev...
Dec 14, 2006 / John Nichols
Citizen Dreyfuss Citizen Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss stood before a packed community meeting in Martha's Vineyard last week and asked, "Where do we offer young people the chance to fall in love with America?" He ins...
Dec 13, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Gore v. Nader Gore v. Nader
Can Al Gore ever escape him? No, I don't mean Bill Clinton; I'm talkingabout Ralph Nader. In 2000, the Nader vote was the margin of victory inFlorida, and thus, a Gore presidency,...
Dec 12, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
‘Impeachment is Not Optional’ ‘Impeachment is Not Optional’
After the death of her soldier son in Iraq, and after it became clear that the misguided policies that put her boy in harm's way would not be changed, a then little-known woman na...
Dec 11, 2006 / John Nichols
Rush to Judgment in the Ex-Spy Poisoning Rush to Judgment in the Ex-Spy Poisoning
As the mystery of Alexander Litvinenko's death by polonium 210 continues to unfold--and the shadowy world of spies, former agents, defectors and seedy characters revealed seems li...
Dec 11, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Demand Democracy for Florida Demand Democracy for Florida
I suspect even many well-informed Nation readers don't know about the 18,382 votes that were lost in one Congressional district in Sarasota, Florida, on Election Day. (I didn't un...
Dec 11, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
A Closing Call for Impeachment A Closing Call for Impeachment
"President George W. Bush has failed to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States; he has failed to ensure that senior members of his administration do t...
Dec 9, 2006 / John Nichols
Jesse Jackson: Dems Must Hold Bush to Account Jesse Jackson: Dems Must Hold Bush to Account
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is prodding the incoming Democratic Congress to take more seriously its duty to hold President Bush and members of his administration to account for engagin...
Dec 7, 2006 / John Nichols