Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Democratic party, the hero of a dozen Democratic national conventions, took the stage at one more gathering of the fa...
Aug 26, 2008 / John Nichols
Moving Democrats Toward a Progressive Future Moving Democrats Toward a Progressive Future
Democratic National Conventions have come a long way since the last time the party's delegates met in Denver. In 1908, when the party met in this western city, African-Americans s...
Aug 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Biden’s Kitchen-Table Populism Biden’s Kitchen-Table Populism
Barack Obama stumbled at one point in his introduction of his vice presidential pick, telling the crowd in Springfield that he had come to "introduce you to the next President…t...
Aug 23, 2008 / John Nichols
Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Champion of Electoral Justice Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Champion of Electoral Justice
Stephanie Tubbs Jones came on my radar in 1990 when, as a relatively young and little-known Cuyahoga County Judge, she mounted a progressive challenge to a conservative Republican...
Aug 21, 2008 / John Nichols
VEEPSTAKES: Feingold On Why He’s Off the List VEEPSTAKES: Feingold On Why He’s Off the List
Russ Feingold is popular enough with grassroots Democrats to have been boomed as a potential candidate for the party's 2008 nomination. He has a national reputation for working a...
Aug 19, 2008 / John Nichols
From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama From Fannie Lou Hamer to Barack Obama
Democrats have come a long way from the first Denver convention a century ago.
Aug 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols
Clinton Will Be Placed In Nomination Clinton Will Be Placed In Nomination
New York Senator Hillary Clinton will become the first challenger to a presumptive Democratic nominee for president to be placed in nomination at a party convention since Jerry Br...
Aug 15, 2008 / John Nichols
Seeing Through John McCain–Even From Afar Seeing Through John McCain–Even From Afar
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is on to John McCain's games. Despite the fact that Saakashvili has quite a bit on his mind this week, the leader of the former Soviet stat...
Aug 13, 2008 / John Nichols
The Swing State on the Black Sea The Swing State on the Black Sea
The conflict between Russia and Georgia came just in time for Barack Obama. Despite John McCain's efforts to exploit concern about the Russian military assault on its neighbor --...
Aug 12, 2008 / John Nichols
Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care Platform Fight: Activists Win Commitment to Guaranteed Care
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pressured by progressive activists who objected to th...
Aug 10, 2008 / John Nichols