Platform Fight: What About Guaranteed Health Care for All? Platform Fight: What About Guaranteed Health Care for All?
The Democratic Party's draft platform offers little in the way of a serious promise of health-care reform. The document reads as if it was written by the insurance industry rathe...
Aug 9, 2008 / John Nichols
Losing the Human Rights Olympics Losing the Human Rights Olympics
When the International Olympic Committee formally awarded Beijing the privilege of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games seven years ago, they accepted assurances from the historically r...
Aug 7, 2008 / John Nichols
Is it Obama-Bayh? Is it Obama-Bayh?
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama arrives in Indiana at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night and he will remain in the state until 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. The question of the day is...
Aug 5, 2008 / John Nichols
Seeking a Health Care for All Platform Seeking a Health Care for All Platform
Progressive Democrats of America continues its campaign to add a firm commitment to universal health care to the 2008 Democratic platform. PDA activists were at the platform commi...
Aug 4, 2008 / John Nichols
Democratic Platform Should Commit to Real Reform Democratic Platform Should Commit to Real Reform
The Democratic Party will get serious about the platform-writing the process, as hearings of the 2008 convention's platform committee kick off in Cleveland. But not too serious. ...
Aug 1, 2008 / John Nichols
Rethinking the Veepstakes Rethinking the Veepstakes
The process of picking a Vice President needn't be the craven political exercise it is today. Do we even need one?
Jul 31, 2008 / John Nichols
Tim Kaine? Don’t Bet On It Tim Kaine? Don’t Bet On It
Barack Obama could do worse than Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as a ticket-mate. Kaine is a smart, articulate and principled attorney who spent much of his legal career making real...
Jul 30, 2008 / John Nichols
Bush’s Globalization Drive Crashes… Again Bush’s Globalization Drive Crashes… Again
President Bush subsumed much of his domestic-policy agenda in recent months to the project of renewing the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round. The lame-duck presid...
Jul 29, 2008 / John Nichols
A Serious Question of Character A Serious Question of Character
For many Americans, the measure of a candidate seeking the presidency comes down to questions of character. Perhaps the most important of these is: How does he or she react under...
Jul 28, 2008 / John Nichols
House Committee Considers the “I” Word House Committee Considers the “I” Word
As the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of how best to address what its chairman described as "the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush," it was one of the ranking ...
Jul 25, 2008 / John Nichols