Obama’s Bully Pulpit Best Bet to Beat Economic Royalists Obama’s Bully Pulpit Best Bet to Beat Economic Royalists
The missing element in Barack Obama's presidency up to this point has been a popular appeal to the American people. He has needed to stand at the "bully pulpit" that Teddy Roosev...
Feb 9, 2009 / John Nichols
Save the Solis Nomination Save the Solis Nomination
Labor secretary-designee Hilda Solis is not a toxic asset in the Obama personnel portfolio. The GOP is wrong to equate her husband's tax dispute with the infractions of high roller...
Feb 9, 2009 / Feature / John Nichols
More Bipartisanship, Less Stimulus More Bipartisanship, Less Stimulus
Determined to pass something in the way of a stimulus package, Senate Democrats on Friday bartered away key elements of the more robust plan approved by the House. Senate Majorit...
Feb 7, 2009 / John Nichols
Ginsberg Hospitalization Spurs Court Speculation Ginsberg Hospitalization Spurs Court Speculation
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was hospitalized Thursday at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for surgery relating to pancreatic cancer. This is an exceptiona...
Feb 6, 2009 / John Nichols
Is Obama Forgetting About Main Street? Is Obama Forgetting About Main Street?
There is no question that the United States is in a trade war. And it is losing. A country that month after month after month records trade deficits in the range of $50 billion ...
Feb 4, 2009 / John Nichols
Don’t Mourn for Daschle Don’t Mourn for Daschle
Tom Daschle has, under his usual cloud of scandal, withdrawn as President Obama's nominee to serve in the critical Cabinet position of Secretary of Health and Human Services. Rep...
Feb 3, 2009 / John Nichols
Calculations Could Add GOP Senator to Cabinet Calculations Could Add GOP Senator to Cabinet
With speculation running rampant that New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg could be plucked from the Senate by President Obama and nominated to serve as Commerce Secretary, we retu...
Feb 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Dirty Trickster Steele Is New RNC Chair Dirty Trickster Steele Is New RNC Chair
When Michael Steele ran for Maryland's open US Senate in 2006, his backers hired 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia -- most if not all of them unemployed, many of...
Jan 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Vote for White House Farmer Vote for White House Farmer
Author Michael Pollan suggested last fall that the next president--as part of a broader move to encourage understanding of and support for sustainable agriculture--should appoint ...
Jan 30, 2009 / John Nichols
Senate Selection Scam Senate Selection Scam
Russ Feingold is leading the charge to close the constitutional loophole that allows governors to appoint senators.
Jan 28, 2009 / John Nichols