Only a Rainbow Will Win Only a Rainbow Will Win
This past Election Day, Netta Young-Hughes attempted to become the first African-American to represent Pennsylvania's 70th district in the state House. She lost by just over 100 ...
Dec 6, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Big Pharma Against AIDS Big Pharma Against AIDS
Last Friday I wrote about some good ways to mark World AIDS Day on December 1. Well, I missed something, which The Nation's well-read Controller just pointed out, and it's worth s...
Dec 6, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
FCC Chair Schemes to Undermine Net Neutrality FCC Chair Schemes to Undermine Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission is supposed to be made up of five independent members who serve in the public interest. But FCC chair Kevin Martin, a Bush White House retai...
Dec 6, 2006 / John Nichols
Hunger Strike at Purdue Hunger Strike at Purdue
In this space, we've periodically tried to highlight some of the many examples that demonstrate that student activism is alive and well, even if under-reported by the media. We'v...
Dec 5, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
The Republican Who Blocked Bolton The Republican Who Blocked Bolton
Lincoln Chafee is cleaning out the Senate office he has occupied since 1999, when he was appointed to complete the term of his late father. The last of what he refers to as the "t...
Dec 5, 2006 / John Nichols
Got Vote? Got Vote?
There are nearly 600,000 citizens in the District of Columbia – more residents than in Wyoming and nearly as many as in six other states with populations under one million. Yet...
Dec 4, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Make It a Mandate for Peace Make It a Mandate for Peace
Peace and social justice groups have formed a new Mandate for Peace coalition to pressure incoming Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to use the power they will assume ...
Dec 2, 2006 / John Nichols
A Way Out A Way Out
In the Washington Post yesterday, Dana Milbank wrote, "Political Washington is in a state of suspended animation these days…leaders of both parties seem unable to do much more t...
Dec 1, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Colin Powell: “I Would Call It a Civil War,” Colin Powell: “I Would Call It a Civil War,”
When NBC and MSNBC began to refer to the civil war in Iraq by its proper name, they took the predictable hits from rightwing media -- Fox personalities were aghast at the notion t...
Dec 1, 2006 / John Nichols
Farewell to Senator Bill Frist, R-Frist Family Farewell to Senator Bill Frist, R-Frist Family
It is too bad that outgoing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, had decided not to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2OO6. It would have been entertainin...
Nov 30, 2006 / John Nichols