A Growing Opposition A Growing Opposition
After President Bush's "win this war" speech to Congress Thursday night, Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and Senate minority leader Trent Lott strode to a podium where Lott dec...
Sep 21, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Dust-up in the Dustbowl Dust-up in the Dustbowl
Oklahoma pushes yet again for 'right to work' legislation.
Sep 20, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Women: Key to the Senate? Women: Key to the Senate?
If they connect well with voters in 2002, they'll have an edge in a weak economy.
Sep 6, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Needed: Fresh Contenders Needed: Fresh Contenders
It is not too early to devise a progressive strategy for the 2004 election.
Sep 6, 2001 / Editorial / John Nichols
Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB Dark Ages Ahead at the NLRB
Most Americans are probably unaware that "the Dark Ages were not all bad and the Enlightenment not all good." Or that "homosexuality [is] a sin worthy of death." Or that one of...
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
They’re Off! They’re Off!
Nine hundred days to go, and Democratic presidential hopefuls are jockeying for position.
Aug 9, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party? Is This the New Face of the Democratic Party?
Representative Nancy Pelosi is poised to become Congress's most powerful woman.
Jul 27, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols
The Beat The Beat
CIVIL RIGHTS REFORM As House Republican leaders thwarted debate on the tepid Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill, the NAACP convention chose a radically different course by ...
Jul 27, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
The Beat The Beat
SENATE SHUFFLE It was a remarkably different Senate that convened following Vermonter Jim Jeffords's switch from Republican to Independent status. The Jeffords jump did more than ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / John Nichols
Not This Time in LA Not This Time in LA
Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. And for much of the spring it seemed possible that America's second-largest city would elect as its mayor a progressive Latino who ...
Jun 7, 2001 / Editorial / John Nichols