A Popular Obama Takes to the Bully Pulpit A Popular Obama Takes to the Bully Pulpit
What Barack Obama is going to deliver to Congress tonight is not -- repeat not -- a State of the Union address. But the president will make it sound like one. Obama will use the...
Feb 24, 2009 / John Nichols
A Win for Sean Penn A Win for Sean Penn
As was only appropriate considering the political content of the film "Milk," this writer was campaigning for Sean Penn in the Oscar race. Penn won. And the actor pulled no punc...
Feb 22, 2009 / John Nichols
Renew Auto Industry? Start With Real Health Reform Renew Auto Industry? Start With Real Health Reform
General Motors, and what is left of Chrysler, are back asking for another government bailout. And Americans who recognize that an auto industry is a good deal more vital to the co...
Feb 20, 2009 / John Nichols
Obama Needs to Keep Promise to Rewrite NAFTA Obama Needs to Keep Promise to Rewrite NAFTA
The issue of trade policy -- which should be at the center of any discussion about renewing the American economy -- will finally garner some serious attention Thursday, as Preside...
Feb 18, 2009 / John Nichols
All Hail Comrade Lindsey Graham All Hail Comrade Lindsey Graham
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's usual allies are not impressed with the Republican senator's suggestion that the time might have come to start nationalizing banks. "Did h...
Feb 17, 2009 / John Nichols
One Congressman Who Gets It: Pete DeFazio One Congressman Who Gets It: Pete DeFazio
Who cast the most meaningful vote on the final version of the federal "stimulus" legislation? Here's a hint: It was not one of the Republican senators who extracted extreme compr...
Feb 15, 2009 / John Nichols
Senate, House Approve Stimulus With Scant GOP Support Senate, House Approve Stimulus With Scant GOP Support
With the deciding vote cast by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown -- who interrupted preparations for his mother's funeral to return to Washington -- the U.S. Senate approved the $787 bil...
Feb 13, 2009 / John Nichols
On Matters Constitutional: Honor Congressman Lincoln On Matters Constitutional: Honor Congressman Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, whose 200th birthday will be celebrated this day by the 44th president of the United States, served only two years in federal elected office before assuming the p...
Feb 11, 2009 / John Nichols
Obama, Progressives Move to Restore Stimulus Spending Obama, Progressives Move to Restore Stimulus Spending
After the Senate passed a stimulus bill that key members of Congress now say "recklessly" shed much of the stimulus spending endorsed by the House, the Obama White House has been ...
Feb 11, 2009 / John Nichols
Senate Should Pursue Truth About Bush-Cheney Abuses Senate Should Pursue Truth About Bush-Cheney Abuses
Proposing the creation of a "truth commission" to examine the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush-Cheney administration, Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy declar...
Feb 10, 2009 / John Nichols