World AIDS Day World AIDS Day
Now that an estimated 40 million people are living with HIV worldwide, the AIDS epidemic has surpassed even the most dire predictions made by experts when the virus first surfaced...
Nov 29, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
News Flash: Major Media Begins to Think for Itself News Flash: Major Media Begins to Think for Itself
Something important in the overall scheme of the American experiment happened this week. On Monday morning, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer appeared on cable television screens acro...
Nov 28, 2006 / John Nichols
A Republican Takes the Lead on Iraq A Republican Takes the Lead on Iraq
In radio and television interviews since the election, I have argued repeatedly that the November 7 vote did not just empower Democrats to do the right thing with regard to the Ir...
Nov 27, 2006 / John Nichols
A Progressive Beat A Progressive Beat
After progressive victories across the nation on Election Day – with winning candidates at the federal, state, and local levels, and on issues ranging from the minimum wage to t...
Nov 27, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Media, Democracy and the FCC Media, Democracy and the FCC
In 2003, an unprecedented groundswell of popular opposition killed then-Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell's efforts to eliminate rules that limit the abili...
Nov 26, 2006 / Peter Rothberg
Backdoor Diplomacy in Iraq Backdoor Diplomacy in Iraq
On Thanksgiving eve, writer and activist Tom Hayden posted an explosive article at Huffington Post about what may be elements of the US's secret diplomatic exit strategy from Iraq...
Nov 25, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Political “News” Replaced By Political Ads Political “News” Replaced By Political Ads
When Franklin Roosevelt and the first New Deal Congress faced the question of how best to organize broadcasting on the public airwaves, they enacted the federal Communications A...
Nov 24, 2006 / John Nichols
“Freedom, Brotherhood, and Justice…” “Freedom, Brotherhood, and Justice…”
Sixty-five years ago, in that tense passage after the worst of the Great Depression began to ease but before the bombings at Pearl Harbor drew this country into the wars of Europe...
Nov 23, 2006 / John Nichols
A New Congressman Says ‘No’ to the President A New Congressman Says ‘No’ to the President
Most freshman Democratic members of the House of Representatives attended last week's reception at the White House with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, White House politica...
Nov 22, 2006 / John Nichols
Full Steam Ahead Full Steam Ahead
Representatives Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey – co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus – aren't concerned about the close-to-conventional wisdom that conservative an...
Nov 20, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel