Pickering Nomination Blocked Pickering Nomination Blocked
After months of struggle, first by Mississippi activists, then by national civil rights groups and finally by a handful of determined Democratic members of the U.S. Senate, the Se...
Mar 15, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
Unspinning the Pickering Push Unspinning the Pickering Push
Supporters of Mississippi Federal Judge Charles Pickering's nomination to serve on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals -- which is expected to be blocked this week by the Senate Judi...
Mar 14, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
Pickering: On The Wrong Side Of History Pickering: On The Wrong Side Of History
At 1700 Birmingham Ave., in Jasper, Ala., sits the little white bungalow where Carl Elliott lived for more than 50 years. It is about as unassuming a house on about as unassuming ...
Mar 10, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
Wave of Election Reform Hits California. Wave of Election Reform Hits California.
As partisan squabbles in the US Senate continue to delay meaningful action on election reforms proposed after the Florida recount crisis of 2000, California voters are taking ball...
Mar 6, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
From Muckraker to Mayor From Muckraker to Mayor
As a take-no-prisoners political columnist for an alternative newspaper in Dallas, Laura Miller made mayors miserable. She declared city officials "brain dead" and portrayed them ...
Feb 18, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
‘At Issue is the Shape of American Democracy’ ‘At Issue is the Shape of American Democracy’
Like last year's freewheeling Senate debate on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, this week's debate on the House version of McCain-Feingold, the Shays-Meehan bill,...
Feb 14, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
George W. Bush’s ‘Homeland Insecurity’ George W. Bush’s ‘Homeland Insecurity’
George W. Bush wants to drain the Social Security trust fund, with a proposal to divert more than $2 trillion in Social Security and Medicaresurpluses over the next ten years. ...
Feb 6, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
Educational (and Essential) Television Educational (and Essential) Television
Rare is the evening when we would suggest that turning on the television set could represent the best way to study up on a vital issue -- especially so complex an issue as the d...
Feb 5, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
Another Thousand Points of Light Another Thousand Points of Light
Few presidents in the history of the United States have been given the opportunity handed George W. Bush to lead the nation to higher ground. No president, with the possible exce...
Feb 1, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols
What’s This About “Accountability.” What’s This About “Accountability.”
George W. Bush could not bring himself to mention the name "Enron" inhis State of the Union address. But no one doubted that, when thepresident spoke of the need for greater corpo...
Jan 30, 2002 / Blog / John Nichols